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- From: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Rmgroup/newgroup policies (Was: Re: Offensive Newsgroup)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.151135.27883@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 15:11:35 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.143553.27911@maths.nott.ac.uk> <92Aug03.012247.18089@acs.ucalgary.ca> <BsJ3x8.GsG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <bsuf7h.3wx@wang.com>
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- IN NEWS.ADMIN, anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker) says:
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- >In article <bsuf7h.3wx@wang.com> fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
- >>Dreck is no less dreck if it gets filed in 'junk'.
- >
- > $ grep junk /usr/lib/news/active
- > junk 0000000000 000001 x
- >
- >Bingo! No more "dreck". [Except for the complaints in the log file.]
- >
- >> Creating a bogus group
- >>(temporarily) costs nothing.
- >
- > Does too. OK, the system resources are quite small. But the
- >*human* waste! Every time you read the news, you're invited to subscribe
- >to yet another *stupid* group; if you're so unwise as to say yes, you
- >may well eventually be told that this group is bogus. It was bad enough
- >"joining-up" when there were only a hundred or so groups, most with
- >reasonably obvious purposes; now that there are thousands, many obscure,
- >many displaying a juvenile sense of humour, it's not surprising that
- >most users never get started, or start and give up.
- >
- > A "normal" dreck message -- a cascade or a "me too" or a silly
- >flame -- affects only the readers of that group. A bogus group affects
- >*every* administrator and *every* reader on that fraction of systems
- >where the group is created. Even if that's only five seconds and a
- >million readers, the waste is around 1400 person-hours. I'll leave
- >the cost in dollars to your imagination.
- >
- >--
- >Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK.
- >anw@maths.nott.ac.uk
- >
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