rf@wu1.UUCP (05/29/84)
Why don't we rename net.general net.everyone? That ought to make the purpose of net.general clear and reduce the number of misplaced postings. From the asbestos mailbox of: Randolph Fritz UUCPnet: decvax!philabs!wu1!rf
wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (06/05/84)
It would also have the advantage of putting what is now "net.general" BEFORE "net.followup", instead of after it, as it now is on all machines with an alphabetic organization of the active groups. That way, you could see the submissions BEFORE the followups, since the software doesn't allow you any personal control over the order of presentation (reference earlier discussion on that topic). Anybody know why, when USENET was created in the computer center over in the northwest corner of the Garden of Eden, "net.followup" was not named "net.general.followup" so it would come AFTER net.general on all machines automatically? Must have been that snake coiled up by the console... Will
mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (06/11/84)
I've said this before and I'll say it again net.general has already been renamed. It's now called net.announce. net.general is still there because net.announce is considered experimental. However, except for a bug in 2.10 news which is fixed in most machines, it works pretty well. I think most people have already unsubscribed from net.general. If you have something to say and really believe it's important enough for almost everybody to read it, use net.announce.