Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site gatech.CSNET Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!spaf From: spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Demonstrated Volume Message-ID: <1862@gatech.CSNET> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 16:41:20 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.1862 Posted: Mon Nov 4 16:41:20 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 06:31:02 EST References: <5717@fortune.UUCP> <629@ecsvax.UUCP> <1828@hao.UUCP> <232@l5.uucp> Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 26 In article <232@l5.uucp> gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >In article <1828@hao.UUCP>, woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes: >> The way I interpret the newsgroup >> creation rules is that you must first have a DEMONSTRATED VOLUME of postings >> before proposing new groups. Maybe that should be changed, I don't know. > >Uh, where is the Demonstrated Volume of postings in mod.computers.gould? >I haven't seen Gould Wizards begging for a new newsgroup and flooding >net.micro.cbm with inappropriate postings because they haven't been >given their own group. Yet somehow Spaf thought it met his "new >newsgroup" criteria, while at the same time thinking that net.internat >did not. I can make mistakes ya know. I created mod.computers.gould because I misread the list that Erik Fair sent to me. He is the one setting up the gateways, and I was creating groups that I thought he was gatewaying based on current gateways. It turns out I created about 4 groups that were not currently being gatewayed into "net" groups -- they will be deleted. Pick another target for abuse, please. -- Gene "wedding done, thesis to go" Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ Relay.CS.NET uucp: ...!{akgua,decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf