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From: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION - modification of charter for news.announce.newgroups
Message-ID: <3027@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Aug 89 19:47:53 GMT
References: <3960@ncar.ucar.edu> 
Reply-To: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs)
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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 hierarchies that
> are not part of the `traditional USENET list of groups'.
> If news.announce.newgroups is to be the place for the announcment of
> properly created groups, then it should be used for ALL hierarchies.

I agree with Eliot - USENET as a community involves all the
distribution groups, including the core quasi-non-commercial-non-alt
groups and the rest as well, and we all benefit from announcements
about new groups, even those that our companies' machines may not
end up carrying.  Does the current charter even support
announcements of the inet groups?
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