[news.admin] talk.origins and the death of USENET

weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) (06/14/88)

I'm only commenting about talk.origins.

In article <2117@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar (Peter da Silva) writes:
>	(4) Give every group in rec, soc, talk a going over. Flame groups
>	    like talk.bizzarre or whatever the evolution group is this week
>	    can go.			       ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^

>This can be as nasty as necessary. This should cut news down quite a load.

Yeah, right.  For a month or two.  Maybe.

You get rid of talk.origins, and the nonsense will show up in sci.astro
and sci.bio and sci.misc.  A chunk does get through to sci.*: I suspect
this is partly due to many sites not getting talk.*.

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720