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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message ...

The last time I was there there seemed to be a bit of a war on about what
was on and off topic. The word policy, seems a little odd if its used for a
general discussion group.
Brian


Per the charter though, it is supposed to be the catch-all for anything
that's not covered by the other groups.

I do wish there was perhaps a sci.space.general or sci.space.talk, but given
we can't get more than 5-6 regular sane posters to the existing groups,
there's no way a new group would make more sense.

Considering Usenet News, in general, is pretty much dead, I'd say you're
correct. Everything these days is web blogs and web based discussion
forums. I'm mostly here for nostalgia and spend very little of my space
reading/discussion time here.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer