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Subject: Re: net.doc
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 07:32:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 07:32:00 1985
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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
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