🚀 go-pugleaf

I haven't seen any con arguments to the creation of ne.singles, but I
don't think the discussion is complete without pointing out the obvious:

Netnews is falling over under its own weight.  At companies and
institutions where there aren't rooms full of gigabyte disk drives,
it's real hard to justify the cost of running a full newsfeed (it
literally takes about a gigabyte to do that at current traffic rates,
and traffic is growing rapidly, more rapidly than the decline of disk
prices).  Most netnews is of little interest to most people, in
particular those who sign the purchase orders.  What is going to
happen more and more often is a partitioning of the newsreading
community: sites will drop news hierarchies just to conserve
resources.

Groups like ne.singles or particularly ne.personals are fodder for the
arguments of purchase-order-signing authorities who ask the question:
Why should we carry netnews; how does it benefit my organization?

Not that I agree with this argument, but it's one which should not
be ignored in this discussion.

-rich