reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) (10/16/85)
I have maintained for a long time that the current newsgroup creation rules are preposterous; given the current (never-ending) discussion I will say it again. You should not choose a newsgroup on the basis of the number of writers, but the number of readers. There is not a completely accurate way of determining the number of readers, but statistical techniques exist. The current technique--pseudo-consensus in net.news.group--is so far from optimal as to be completely ludicrous. -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA