Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!skyler From: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Suggestion for new newsgroup creation rule. Message-ID: <11275@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 23 Jun 88 02:32:34 GMT References: <960@ficc.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 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