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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Suggestion for new newsgroup creation rule.
Message-ID: <966@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 88 10:38:50 GMT
References: <960@ficc.UUCP> <2474@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> <11237@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <985@ficc.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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In article <985@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>I didn't suggest that it should. I just thought that since "alt" has
>much less restrictive newsgroup creation rules (like, none) people with
>legitimate groups could try them out there before promoting them to
>real usenet status.

And who says that alt isn't "real" Usenet?  From my point of view, it's
as real as any of the rest of it, and a damn sight more interesting than
most.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame