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In article <C0Jt9F.IK5@jti.com>, Richard Braun writes (in part):
> 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?

	This same phenomenon can be used to justify the creation of new
groups such as ne.singles.  The more targetted a group is, the less wasted
bandwith for the majority of its readers.  People here have pointed out
that there's another singles newsgroup that is predomently used by West
coast people.  For New England sites, it may make sense to carry ne.singles,
but not this other one.  The more specific groups are, the more efficiently
recources, such as disk space, can be allocated through selective feeds.

Mark (who signs the purchase orders for stile's upgrades)
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Mark D. Eklof
Coös Grange
Brookline, New Hampshire, USA

me@stile.stonemarche.org

Sometimes, I wonder if it's me.