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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
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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.
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