Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!iscuva!davids
From: davids@iscuva.ISCS.COM (David Schmidt)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Reflections on the creation of comp.protocols.tcp-ip.eniac
Message-ID: <1505@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 11 May 88 17:16:18 GMT
References: <442@white.gcm> <3880@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>  <7691@ncoast.UUCP> <462@white.gcm>
Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane, WA
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If Bob really feals that the creation of comp.protocols.tcp-ip.eniac
is worthwhile, and that everyone (except the backbones :-) will want
it, here is a solution:

  Bob, create the group at Rutgers and announce to the world that the
  group exists.  Let all of your news neighbors know about it and have
  them add it to their systems.  Have anyone that wants the group contact
  you to find out where to get it.

  If a site doesn't want the group, then it doesn't add it, and at
  worst gets a few extra articles in junk.  If this group is the
  fantastic, "everyone will want it" group that you claim, then it
  should get wide propogation.

My *PERSONAL* opinion is that "Net Gods" have behaved properly.  They
are ignoring a group that has not met the guidelines (no current
traffic, poor choice of name).  I believe that Bob Webber is just
throwing sand into a machine he doesn't approve of, just to see if he
can get the machine to break down.

By the way, you won't see the group created here.
-- 
David Schmidt              UUCP:  davids@iscuva.ISCS.COM
ISC Systems Corporation           (uunet!iscuva!davids)
East 22425 Appleway        Phone: +1 509 927-5479
Liberty Lake, WA  99019