Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!hao!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Creating new groups (net.internat, net.os, et.al.) Message-ID: <161@opus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 04:47:46 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.161 Posted: Thu Oct 24 04:47:46 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:07:19 EDT References: <1648@gatech.CSNET> <120@decvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 29 > I was glad that Gene took the trouble of explaining how news > groups *should* be created, but would like to point out > a flaw in this procedure: it assumes that people interested > in creating (or not creating) net.internat (for example) > subscribe to net.news, or was it net.news.group, to participate > in the discussion. This is probably not the case and I would > recommend some other way of justifying a new group. This is a lame excuse. As much as I think net.internat is valuable, I also think that it should have been created properly--and I think that if you want a new newsgroup you can either subscribe to net.news.group for long enough to participate in the discussion about creating it or you can damn well do without it. All this whining about the effort of paying attention and participating in the administrative work of the net just long enough and just little enough to get one group created is not only petty but a big insult to the people (like Spaf) who do the larger part of the administration. I am VERY interested in the material that has shown up in net.internat. If there are enough other people so interested, it should be no problem. We can bring about the standard polling of the readership, discussion, etc., and either re-create the group (by due process this time) or find out that it's of limited interest. But let's get on with the real process of deciding on creating the group (and looking into whether it has to be at the top level, by the way) and STOP WHINING because somebody got caught not playing by the rules! -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...At last it's the real thing...or close enough to pretend.