At 11:21 PM 8/19/96 -0700, Roger Healy OBC wrote:

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At 1:34 PM 8/19/96 -0700, Mike Duvos wrote:

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Permit me to go off in an orthogonal direction here and say that I think that we should do away with the concept of a pre-ordained newsgroups in Usenet entirely, in favor of an IRC-like dynamic creation of message pools.

Moderated newsgroups gain reputation from their moderation policies and probably should not be included in this scheme.

Moderated newsgroups have very few posts because hardly anyone reads them. I second the above propsed IRC-like scheme if it only would apply to moderated groups, because of IRC's bad reputation of moderation.

Don't confuse quantity with quality. When I want a FAQ for some area I don't normally follow, I go to news.answers. I know I won't be buried in social good times the way someone who wants to know about cryptography is buried when they go to cyperpunks. I have no such assurance if I were to go to the news group which created the FAQ. The reason there are so many different models on the net is they each serve a purpose. Don't make the mistake of trying to jam everything into one mold. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Cave ab homine unius lebri | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | [Beware the man of one | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | book] - Anonymous Latin | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA