Re: Proposal - Reinstate alt.usenet.reposts

Jason Evans <[email protected]> wrote:

> Description: The newsgroup alt.usenet.reposts (AUR) was created to
> contain articles that people have read in other newsgroups and which other
> people might find amusing or interesting: there are over 45,000 groups out
> there, and even if you wanted to, you couldn't read every one.  Instead, 
> you can read AUR, and read about the violent end of flame wars, newbieisms 
> too clueless for words, witty responses and other articles that a wider 
> audience might find interesting. 


This I think is where your logic falls apart.

There might be 45,000 news groups out there (we're at almost 40,000 here)
but I think you can read all of them and probably have quite a bit of time
left over to read War and Peace.

There is barely 50MB of usenet a day and only around 10-12K posts.

Not really seeing much activity where a "best of" is warranted anymore.

I know what you are talking about though, when that group was created, even
spending 5 or 6 hours a day looking around still made me use c (whatever the
catch-up key was) to mark all of them read in certain groups. Certain groups
needed to have an exception in the expire routine to clear space faster.

These days? Pffft. I'm not even sure expire runs on our box anymore.

What is being posted where so that it needs to be pointed out as a
highlight? rec.guns? alt.fan.rush-limbaugh? The only half assed semi-popular
group I read is rec.arts.tv and that has been dwindling down in posts. And I
can't think of any content in there that needs to be pointed out as "good"
and reposted.

This whole request is weird.

-bruce
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