Subject: Twin Peaks, nay.
From: mikep@dirty.csc.ti.com (Michael A. Petonic)
Date: 1990-11-15, 15:37
Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.tv.twin-peaks

I don't think that twin-peaks should have a newsgroup in the "rec"
heirarchy for the following reasons:

1) Twin Peaks represents a trend.  No matter how much quality
   there may be, trends come and go (by definition).  The
   "normal" (non-alt) newsgroups should be fairly stable, not
   reflecting every slight surge or depression in interest.

2) Someone (erroneously, as it turns out) argued that their machine
   doesn't get the alt groups, so Twin Peaks should be carried on
   the rec groups.  Well, I think this is a pretty self centered
   argument.  If we use this argument for all of the alt groups
   that anyone may have an interest in, then we run into the 
   danger of overloading news servers who don't carry alt groups
   (for disk space considerations) but do carry the other groups 
   and pretty soon, *every* "non-work related" group will go away 
   on some machines.  Please, think of the larger picture.

Regards,
Michael A. Petonic
mikep@dirty.csc.ti.com