Re: On moderated newsgroups

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:07:31 +0000
Tony <postmaster@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

In uk.net.news.management, Simon Brooke <stillyet+nntp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

So my view is that if twenty people actually make long term use of a
group and enjoy doing so, it was worth creating. If they don't, it
can be rmgrouped. Neither of these is a big deal.

And there's *plenty* of room in Usenet for those folk, like the whole
of alt.* or free.*

How does that impact on what the uk.* hierarchy provides?

It's much easier to argue that spreading a limited number of people
over a wider namespace reduces the chance of a community forming than
it is to argue the opposite, in my view.

If anything, we should be reducing the size of the uk.* hierarchy so
that communities can form.

Ever increasingly specific charters and tiny moderated groups dilute,
not strengthen, usenet.

Careful - you're addressing the actual situation, rather than the one
that he thinks he wants to address.

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