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From: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Suggestion for new newsgroup creation rule.
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Date: 23 Jun 88 02:32:34 GMT
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In article <960@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Now that alt is here to stay, might I suggest a new newsgroup creation rule:
>
>	(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.

>By the way, what's a "Brahms Gang"?

The net stupidity police.

-Trish Roberts