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From: sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 05:15:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 13 05:15:05 1985
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Reply-To: sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Organization: Neurophysiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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With respect the the creation of the mod.computers.*, mod.politics.*, etc,
this was discussed in net.news.group as I recall. There was not much
discussion (relative to the current volume on the issues of net.source.mac
and net.internat/net.bizarre), but there WAS discussion.

As to Erik's assertion that there has never been a group created without
discussion, he may not have been totally correct. However, Byron points
this out by citing a counter-example of net.announce which like net.news.* 
is necessary for the operation of the network (although some have already
suggested that net.news.group may be a bit too large and hot lately).
Now, if Byron would like to cite an example of a group which has a prefix
of net. and is not one of the "administrative" groups (net.announce.*,
net.general, net.misc, net.news.* or net.followup), then I think he would
have a successful counter-example. 

I must agree that there is not current documentation on the correct 
proceedure to create a moderated newsgroup. I believe that the reason
for this was due to the original experimental nature of mod groups.
This lack of documentation will hopefully be corrected here on the net
and in the documentation to be distributed with netnews 2.10.3.


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