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In article <bdb7bi$9pq$1@reader1.panix.com>, abuse@MIX.COM wrote:

> John Higdon <no-spam@amadeus.kome.com> writes:
> 
> > > 1) It's an "OK" idea, not a great idea, and it bothers me that
> > >    it seems to have been motivated more by virtue of a personal
> > >    crusade (Habash's vis-a-vis John Navas, mostly) than anything
> > >    else.
> 
> > In my fifteen years experience on Usenet, that's often the sole reason 
> > for group name-change proposals.
> 
> You mean ala comp.dcom.telecom and comp.dcom.telecom.tech?  I voted
> for that one only because I got sick of the moderator (Pat ?, can't
> even recall his last name now) scrbbling all over the group.  This
> is a similar situation, but I don't know if a similar solution will
> accomplish the same thing here.

Hey, I'm willing to fess up. But in addition to that being a grudge 
match, there was a moderated group involved in which there was perceived 
tyranny involved. No such condition, perceived or real exists here. 

> The way ba.internet currently operates is everyone picks a thread
> and hammers away it with pretty much anything and everything.  Then
> it eventually dies a slow death, and then the next thread comes along
> and the same thing happens over again.

Sounds like Usenet, all right.

> I personally don't care to slog through quite that much off-charter
> crud, and I think something which deals that would be good to do.

Shuffling the newsgroup names isn't going to accomplish anything in that 
regard.

> But then having been at this since the 1980s I know trying to move
> anything like this is damn near impossible - unless, I suppose, the
> group gets nuked and others are created to replace it.
> 
> I expect there will be too much opposition to get that done... so it
> is probably wise to comtemplate some other solution(s) to the problems
> some have with some of the goings on here...

Actually, I don't see anything going on here that doesn't go on in every 
other well-attended newsgroup.

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