Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!xenitec!edhew
From: edhew@xenitec.uucp (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION - modification of charter for news.announce.newgroups
Message-ID: <1989Aug13.065203.6036@xenitec.uucp>
Date: 13 Aug 89 06:52:03 GMT
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In article  lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) writes:
>I protest the charter of news.announce.newgroups, that the moderator
>will not post messages announcing new groups in heirarchies that
>are not part of the `traditional USENET list of groups'.
>
>If spaf can mention such groups in the list of alternate hierarchies,
>there should be no reason to censor announcements such as mine from
>news.announce.newgroups.
>
>Therefore, I request a change in the charter.

Perhaps such announcements should take place in alt.announce.newgroups ?
spaf does a great job of letting us know what's available in alternate
news groups periodically.  If we (collectively) are interested, we can
always read those groups.  If we don't get them already, feeds aren't
that hard to find.

On the other hand, there really would be no harm done in such an
announcement, as we're talking about _very_little_ bandwidth here.

I suppose an appropriate summary of my posting would be that there are
2 ways of looking at the situation, both of them valid.

>Eliot Lear,  The BIONET Project

  Ed. A. Hew             Technical Trainer             Xeni/Con Corporation
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