Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!alberta!access!edm!rroot From: rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Suggestion for new newsgroup creation rule. Message-ID: <3187@edm.UUCP> Date: 28 Jun 88 01:03:19 GMT References: <1779@looking.UUCP> Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB. Lines: 19 From article <1779@looking.UUCP>, by brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton): > In article <960@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >> (1) Create the group in "alt". >> (2) Demonstrate volume and friendliness. >> (3) Get the *backbone* to vote on admitting it. > > I like this idea, although I don't think "alt" should be used, but rather > a new distribution, called "tryout" or something. Part of the problem with a 'trial' distribution is: 1) It's not likely to get a very strong distribution (or even connectivity, for that mater) which will REALLY skew results. Many people won't even get the Create message. 2) If it DOES get a good distribution, then it almost defeats the original reason for creating the distribution group. -- ------------- Stephen Samuel {ihnp4,ubc-vision,vax135}!alberta!edm!steve or userzxcv@uofamts.bitnet