Acbosgd.1590
net.news
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!eagle!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark
Mon Jan 11 13:05:33 1982
USENET policies
Well, the storm has died down somewhat and the following conclusions
seem to represent the majority of the members:

Basically, the proposed policy seems for the most part agreeable to
most of the net, except as mentioned here.

A rewording of the cost policy is needed to permit several sites to
share the cost of a link over which news is sent.

The policies on creation of new newsgroups seem way off base and should
probably be junked.  A procedure for creation of a new newsgroup, probably
only slightly more formal than what currently happens, should be
established and documented.

Everybody agrees that net.jokes.q should go away, at least officially.
I suggest that it be renamed something like ug.jokes (where ug is an
"underground" class that only sites that really want it would subscribe).

Nobody has really said anything about the net/pers distinction.  While
it seems like a good idea to me, unless there are people out there who
would make use of the distinction, there doesn't seem to be any point
in splitting the current newsgroups.

       Mark

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