From: charles.macdonald@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca
> >From: "Larry W. Virden" <lvirden@cas.org>
>
> >How bad would it really be to close up shop?
>
> What sort of Close up shop?
>
> - We stop moderating News.answers? and let the spamers move in..
>
> - We rmgroup *.answers as being from a kinder gentler nettime and let folks
> just wander arround cycberspace looking for information.
>
> - We stop activly moderating, and let the old-timers still follow the magic
> that gets an FAQ out, and teach new FAQ maintainers how - on the sly- to post
> to *.answers
These last two, with perhaps an rmgroup on *.answers...
I don't know that I've seen a case where, IN GENERAL, newbies to the
newsgroups had a clue about how to use newsgroups or FAQs. That is,
in general, a fall out of making usenet 'user friendly' for everyone's
mom/grandma/baby/pet ... As the task became so overwhelming that the
number of volunteers were vastly outweighted by the volume, it became
obvious, to me, that it was time to pull down the shades, lock the door,
and move on down the road...
> - We trust that http://Google.com will be profitable enough that you can just
> do Google searches for all the info we need.
>
> - We decide that the End of usenet really is near and declare that we will
> rmgroup the entire thing (except perhaps for the Binaries) on Jan 1, 2002
>
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