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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION - modification of charter for news.announce.newgroups
Message-ID: <754@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 14 Aug 89 21:11:55 GMT
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In news.admin, pst@anise.acc.com (Paul Traina) writes:
< 
< Alt.config works reasonably well for alt.  GNU newsgroups are directly
< tied to mailing lists and are established by one "authority".  I don't
< see a particular pressing need for an universal announce group.  If it
< turns out that alt or bionet, or gnu need such a mechanism, they will
< create one within their own heirarchy. [...]

On the other hand, there are plenty of people who don't even get all of the
"mainstream" groups, let alone gnu or alt or whatever.
It would certainly help if we get to know what happens in the "alternate"
hierarchies, to keep the active files current and maybe even to be able to
persuade the guys holding the purse strings to loosen said strings a bit...
-- 
Claimer: Just a personal opinion, though probably not only my own.