Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!husc6!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Suggestion for new newsgroup creation rule. Message-ID: <9775@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: 26 Jun 88 22:23:50 GMT References: <960@ficc.UUCP> <11275@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 45 In article <11275@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> skyler@violet.berkeley.edu writes: >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. >Starting groups in alt won't help certain kinds of groups because alt has >a limited distribution and a particular (and unrepresentative) kind of >readership. Serious kinds of groups would do especially badly. Hence, >a group might do badly in alt which would do well in some other kind >of distribution and vice versa. ah well now ... that's an interesting sort of "discrimination". That because a hierarchy has some bad apples that it's all bad. I suppose that the recipes group over there is full of bizarre-oids? (I don't know, I don't read that group, but I know that when it was mod.recipes it was a very fine well-run group). And alt.sources is certainly overrun with huge numbers of strange people too (:-)). And alt.sca has been doing very well thank you, even over in the "net.sewer". And alt appears to have a "bad propogation" because not everybody knows how easy it is to get. Also, probably NONE of the non-North American sites are getting it.. I'm not sure if those three steps are correct. For example, at the beginning of a groups life, the name of the group has *a*lot* to do with what happens in the group. A problem we seem to have is that most newsgroup proposals have something "wrong" with their names. With a name which doesn't really match too well the originators idea, the people could run with it and make it something else entirely. Whether or not that's a good thing would depend on the circumstance. >>By the way, what's a "Brahms Gang"? > >The net stupidity police. -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy<---- s.k.a.: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- A proud supporter of the Marcel Marceau Foundation <------ Because a mime is a terrible thing to waste