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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION - modification of charter for news.announce.newgroups
Message-ID: <14549@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 89 00:22:38 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
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One problem with restricting other-hierarchy newgroup announcements to
their own distributions (new BIONET group announcements only in
dist:bionet, new ALT announcements only in dist:alt, etc), is that
mainstream people who might well consider adding another hierarchy to
their feed (if they knew what was in them these days) won't hear about
it.  Perhaps I never wanted a "biz" feed because it didn't look worth
the disk space, but now there's a new "biz.solar" group and I'm in the
solar heating business.  If it's only announced in "biz.config" I'll
miss it.  Spaf's diffs are hard on the eyes as news.  (Quick - what was
added last month?!)

The hair splitting about "allow but do not force" is vacuous.  No one
can force the alternate hierarchies to do anything.  "Allow" is the only
real decision that's ours to make.

I think any new group with more than local distribution should be
eligible to announce in news.announce.newgroups if so desired.
-- 
"We walked on the moon --	((	Tom Neff
	you be polite"		 )) 	tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET