Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!agate!garnet!weemba From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Suggestion for new newsgroup creation rule. Message-ID: <11237@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 22 Jun 88 07:25:54 GMT References: <960@ficc.UUCP> <2474@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Organization: Brahms Gang Posting Central Lines: 14 In-reply-to: wes@engr.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) In article <2474@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>, wes@engr (Wes Morgan) writes: >> (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. alt.* is a very fine hierarchy, and does not want to become the dumping ground for the rest of the net's newsgroup problems. Over in alt.config I've been proposing the duh.* hierarchy to be the official net.sewer. ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720