Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 7/1/84; site wuphys.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!busch!wucs!wuphys!mff From: mff@wuphys.UUCP (Swamp Thing) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds Message-ID: <378@wuphys.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 18:04:05 EST Article-I.D.: wuphys.378 Posted: Mon Oct 28 18:04:05 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:08:49 EST References: <614@h-sc1.UUCP> <1817@hao.UUCP> Reply-To: mff@wuphys.UUCP (Swamp Thing) Distribution: net Organization: Physics Dept., Washington Univ. in St. Louis Lines: 43 In article <1817@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes: >> It seems that Gene Spafford has recently taken to reorganizing USENET >> to suit his tastes. > > Wrong. He has taken to reorganizing it to suit a consensus of backbone >site administrators, who pay for the damn thing. > >> Equally peculiar is Spafford's claim that net.internat was started as >> a wildcat newsgroup. > >> Its cancellation is even more peculiar. On the basis of Spaf's own >> postings, this group seems to be the summum bonum: a technical group >> (easy to justify to management) with a relatively small, but nontrivial >> volume, in which over 50% of the postings have something new and interesting >> to say. > > Once again, the content of the group is not at issue. It's method of >creation IS the issue. > >> Robert Thau --- The *Young* Curmudgeon. > >--Greg >-- >{ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!noao | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!noao} > !hao!woods Just out of curiosity, what are the established procedures for removing a group? Should there not be discusion on this as well as for creation? I have read through net.news.group and have found no discusion concerning the killing of net.inernat until after the fact. Mark F. Flynn Department of Physics Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130 ihnp4!wuphys!mff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark." P. Floyd