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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!wirzeniu
- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Subject: Re: A proposal for organizing comp.os.linux. [NEW-CHANNELS]
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.034614.4421@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Followup-To: news.groups
- Keywords: stupid ignorant crybaby
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <1992Dec13.204007.17189@reed.edu> <1992Dec15.012306.22022@sfu.ca> <1992Dec16.171501.16944@nmsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:46:14 GMT
- Lines: 40
-
- Welcome back to the bitching-about-the-split-that-failed saga!
-
- emf@freedom.nmsu.edu writes:
- >It DID PASS, people... just not by a wide enough margin to satisfy
- >some ignorant administrative slob who doesn't even read the bloody
- >group anyway.
-
- I guess you're referring to the moderator of news.announce.newgroups,
- David Lawrence. He doesn't make the rules. The rule (strictly
- speaking it is a guideline that is followed more rigorously than most
- laws in the world) is not his invention, he just follows it (if he
- didn't, he'd be kicked out of moderatorship). That rule/guideline is
- there because the people who get to decide want it there. Those
- people are not the Usenetters in general, but the administrators of
- Usenet systems.
-
- > I think the split should go thru.
-
- In this particular case, it really doesn't matter what you think.
-
- >IMHO, anyone who cross-posts an announcement to both c.o.l and c.o.l.a
- >is an idiot.
-
- You're entitled to your opinion. I'm entitled to my opinion about
- people who don't know how Usenet works and flame when things go how
- they want. (I'm not telling you what my opinion is, 'cause this isn't
- alt.flame.)
-
- >and just because it will irritate someone, here's how I think this
- >silly overpopulated group should be split...
-
- Come back in about six months (or is it five already?), do a new
- RFD/CFV, and then perhaps it will be split.
-
- [ Followups to news.groups, the correct place to flame about newsgroup
- creation, desctruction, renaming, splitting, etc. ]
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
-