Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site osu-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-eddie!karl From: karl@osu-eddie.UUCP (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Why do we need both net.religion.christian and net.religion.xian? Message-ID: <16@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 16:15:18 EST Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.16 Posted: Sun Dec 16 16:15:18 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Dec-84 04:16:45 EST Distribution: net Organization: Society for the Advancement of Raw Weirdness Lines: 44 Folks, we have to resolve the currently-existing conflict between the two newsgroups net.religion.christian and net.religion.xian. Both newsgroups exist, and we really should have only one of them. I was personally not in favor of the creation of either, but since the one was created (*.christian), I figured what the hay, we can run with it. Now, however, we have a second group created (*.xian) without any discussion whatsoever. The stated reason for creating *.xian (can't remember who did it, but it doesn't matter now) was that someone's notesfile software was breaking while trying to deal with the name net.religion.christian. Someone else subsequently posted to the effect that there are ways around this limitation of the notesfile system, and hence the *.xian group wasn't needed. I propose that *.xian be removed on the following grounds: (1) There was absolutely no discussion whatsoever on the subject of the creation of *.xian. This is flagrantly in violation of the rules (however unenforceable they may be) which require discussion before the creation of any newsgroup. (Although I haven't got it with me right now, I believe the "Usenet 10 Commandments" says something cute like, "Thou shalt ponder for 40 days and 40 nights before issuing a 'create group.'") (1) If someone's news software is breaking because of net.religion.christian, it's their software that needs fixing. The Usenet really doesn't need another newsgroup as a pseudo-bug-fix. (2) The other newsgroup, net.religion.christian, already exists and is functioning quite well already; it's breaking no one else's software. (Or, rather, if it's breaking someone else's software, they're keeping mighty quiet about it.) Therefore, I submit that net.religion.xian is improper, unneeded, and out-of-date already, and should be summarily removed by someone who knows how to do such things (I don't; the news is one of the few tools on Unix which I use but which I do not hack, so I've never found out how to such administrative tasks). -- From the badly beaten keyboards of him who speaks +---best address in textured Technicolor *TyPe* f-O-n-T-s... | | Karl Kleinpaste @ Bell Labs, Columbus 614/860-5107 +-----> cbrma!kk @ Ohio State University 614/422-0915 osu-eddie!karl