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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>
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Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
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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