Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!unisoft!gethen!farren 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 Lines: 16 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