Afloyd.41 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!floyd!trb Tue Jan 19 18:25:31 1982 make a group, can a group In response to Mark's suggestion, limiting the number of newsgroups is (in my opinion) a bad idea. This tries to cover up a problem, not solve it. Canning stale groups is an excellent idea, but I don't see what that has to do with limiting the number of newsgroups. Limiting the number of newsgroups wouldn't limit traffic, it seems to me that the step toward limiting the number of newsgroups is analogous to having no newsgroups at all (i.e. one newsgroup). The more varied the topics are on this net, the more newsgroups we'll need, and eventually, we'd have to subscribe to net.tele to get all the newsgroups that we might have wanted to start with the letters tele, but didn't have the names to spare (television, telephone, teleprompter, teleportation, telgraph-hill, telescope, teleology, teleran, teletypewriter (oh, can't have that, it's more than 13 characters and would goof up some cretinous mail handler with whom we must maintain compatibility, I forgot, sorry), telex, etc...). Reminds me of "...for want of a shoe the horse was lost," all for the want of more groupnames. I don't think limiting the number of names by deleting one for every one you create is a reasonable solution. Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491 ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.