"Often on news.groups or news.groups.proposals, especially during a
Request for Discussion (RFD) for a new newsgroup, the 'Standard' (or
'Usual') Advice is brought up. While not formally documented anywhere,
it is a form of oral history and lessons-learned about Usenet. Like folk
medicine, it has some value, but has also been at least partly overcome
by modern practices. It also represents an ongoing 'Great Debate'
between the 'originalists' or 'strict constructionists' vs. the 'living
document' or 'pie-in-the-sky' reformers that has been waged on Usenet
for years, if not decades. One side essentially wants a Williamsburg,
Virginia, the other a Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Both sides have some
merit, but also some blind spots, and the future value of Usenet, and
management of the newsgroup hierarchy, would reasonably appear to depend
on not re-litigating old settled arguments, nor refusing to acknowledge
that some early wisdom doesn't scale on a modern, general-access
Internet and might have to be reconsidered."

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