Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Suggestion for new newsgroup creation rule.
Message-ID: <985@ficc.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 88 14:33:18 GMT
References: <960@ficc.UUCP> <2474@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> <11237@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
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In article <11237@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, weemba@garnet.UUCP writes:
> In article <2474@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>, wes@engr (Wes Morgan) writes:
> >I said:
> >> 	(1) Create the group in "alt".
> >> 	(2) Demonstrate volume and friendliness.
> >> 	(3) Get the *backbone* to vote on admitting it.

> >Does anyone have objections to this?  Let's consider it....seriously.

> No, let's not.

No, let's. Come on, Weemba, just because you consider something seriously,
doesn't mean you have to adopt it as is. That sort of thing only happens
in the comic books. We can have a serious discussion without you giving
up any territory to start with.

> alt.* is a very fine hierarchy, and does not want to
> become the dumping ground for the rest of the net's newsgroup problems.

I didn't suggest that it should. I just thought that since "alt" has
much less restrictive newsgroup creation rules (like, none) people with
legitimate groups could try them out there before promoting them to
real usenet status.

> Over in alt.config I've been proposing the duh.* hierarchy to be the
> official net.sewer.

I'm not proposing a net.sewer, here. I'm proposing a provisional group
hierarchy. How about "new." or "trial.", if it so offends you to have
alt.sex and alt.drugs sharing name space with alt.comp.women.

> ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720

What's a Brahms Gang?
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