Aalice.412 net.news.groups utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!alice!sjb Thu Jan 21 18:10:14 1982 Re: How about ??.??? I must disagree with Mel on one point -- if someone wants to start a group, he/she shouldn't (in my opinion) submit something to THAT group right away; this probably will cause excess dead groups (from name changes, and also possibly the user will find that no one was interested) which is what we're trying to stop (I am NOT disagreeing with the newsgroup system nor saying that groups for specfifc topics are bad but groups just lying around because someone started them before checking to see if there was any interest pile up) Adam Buchsbaum ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.