Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site ndm20 Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!ndm20!tp From: tp@ndm20 Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: net.doc Message-ID: <5000010@ndm20> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 07:32:00 EST Article-I.D.: ndm20.5000010 Posted: Mon Oct 28 07:32:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:01:53 EST References: <381@creare.uucp> Lines: 30 Nf-ID: #R:creare.uucp:-38100:ndm20:5000010:000:1617 Nf-From: ndm20!tp Oct 28 06:32:00 1985 Actually, there are 2 groups that, taken together, cover all the proposed uses of net.doc. For questions about unix, use net.unix. If you have some documentation that would be valuable to somebody, post it to net.sources. net.sources IS the appropriate place to post documentation. If the volume becomes large, then net.sources.doc will be created, as per the normal net procedures. There is at present no demonstrated need. Prove me wrong (PLEASE!) by generating some volume in net.sources. Discussions about what should be posted should be in net.unix or net.unix-wizards (for kernel type things). If a sufficient volume ensues, then we can talk about net.sources.doc, and discussion can be moved there (though net.unix would probably STILL be the best place for such discussion). Getting groups created under those circumstances is quite easy. Doing as you are trying, with no demonstrated volume, is impossible. You might as well quit asking because it just doesn't happen that way, no matter what the perceived usefulness of the group. This is because most groups created without demonstrated need (cf. mod.general) turn into empty forums. Everybody is waiting to read the wonderful articles that should be posted there, and nobody is writing them. Groups need to be created when there are people who want to post something, not when people want to read something. Terry Poot Nathan D. Maier Consulting Engineers (214)739-4741 Usenet: ...!{allegra|ihnp4}!convex!smu!ndm20!tp CSNET: ndm20!tp@smu ARPA: ndm20!tp%smu@csnet-relay.ARPA