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.