[RANT] Death of Usenet: Film at 11

[Bill Frantz]

At 11:21 PM 8/19/96 -0700, Roger Healy OBC wrote:
>ON
>> 
>> At  1:34 PM 8/19/96 -0700, Mike Duvos wrote:
>> >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


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