Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!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: <11325@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 24 Jun 88 11:51:23 GMT References: <1821@van-bc.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Organization: Brahms Gang Posting Central Lines: 17 In-reply-to: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) In article <1821@van-bc.UUCP>, sl@van-bc (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) writes: >>Over in alt.config I've been proposing the duh.* hierarchy to be the >>official net.sewer. >Well at least we could be polite about it. No. That's the whole point! >How about a new.* hierarchy. With the same distribution rules as alt.*. A duh.* hierarchy tends to *discourage* people from just creating a newsgroup because they think such-and-such a topic is fascinating. Who knows? I suppose it might attract self-proclaimed idiots. ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720