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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Creating new groups (net.internat, net.os, et.al.)
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 04:47:46 EDT
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> 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.