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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: <11237@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 22 Jun 88 07:25:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: wes@engr.uky.edu (Wes Morgan)

In article <2474@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>, wes@engr (Wes Morgan) writes:
>> 	(1) Create the group in "alt".
>> 	(2) Demonstrate volume and friendliness.
>> 	(3) Get the *backbone* to vote on admitting it.

>Does anyone have objections to this?  Let's consider it....seriously.

No, let's not.  alt.* is a very fine hierarchy, and does not want to
become the dumping ground for the rest of the net's newsgroup problems.

Over in alt.config I've been proposing the duh.* hierarchy to be the
official net.sewer.

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720