Aazure.510 net.news.group utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!teklabs!tekmdp!azure!curts Wed Feb 10 12:33:34 1982 List of Newsgroups I have received a lot of "direct" mail conscerning the list of newsgroups that I volunteered to provide for USENET. Most of this mail has simply been about corrections or additions to the grouplist. However, there has also been a number of requests. A couple of people have asked me to remove the dashed lines that separate each entry within the list. It seems that these lines make the list a little unpalatable, when one is trying to read it at home on a 300 baud modem. Another request is a little more critical. It seems that there are a growing number of people that want me to send the grouplist to a unique newsgroup. I proposed this originally, but sent it to net.news.group after there were a number of messages suggesting that we really didn't need another group. However, someone has suggested that burying the list in net.news.group makes it inconvenient to refer new readers to the list. They have to sift through all of the material already in that group to find the list, in order to decide which groups they would like to subscribe to. I think that this could place a limit on the effectiveness of the list and I would like to again suggest that the list be sent to net.grouplist. I will remove the dashed lines from all forthcoming lists. I will also provide a date in the subject header. I would like to hear from you about placing the grouplist in net.grouplist. Please respond to 'ucbvax!teklabs!tekmdp!curts' Curt Stephens ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.