[net.news.group] Newsgroup Creation, The Community, and Little Individuals

tmb@talcott.UUCP (Thomas M. Breuel) (10/26/85)

[Gene Spafford, gatech!spaf, writes:]
|slam get to me, I'd have quit long ago.  I realize that there are many
|little individuals who try to make themselves seem important by writing
|long and impressive rants about various things.  So it is with the

What reason do *you* have to feel so much greater than other
participants in the net? Compilation of the list of active
newsgroups doesn't qualify in my opinion.

Look, I'm just a reading and posting participant of USENET.
I would like my favourite newsgroups to stay around without
having to plead for their continued existence everytime you
arbitrarily decide that their volume has become too low to
justify their continued existence or that someone in Europe
hasn't properly researched the opinions of the American
USENET community before creating a valid newsgroup.

I think that the question of whether additional newsgroups
can be tolerated should be decided with the common sense of
the USENET participants and by the backbone sites that have
to carry a large part of the load and that may elect not
to forward certain groups. So far, I haven't heard of many
such decisions by major backbone sites, but then I'm not
really into net-politics. I'm just a reader...

					Thomas.