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- From: acooper@nuustak.csir.co.za (Antony Cooper)
- Newsgroups: rec.skiing
- Subject: Re: Newsgroup for European skiing...
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 18:38:53 +0200
- Organization: CSIR, South AFrica
- Lines: 29
- Message-ID: <acooper.728151975@nuustak>
- References: <93025.174139KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET> <1993Jan26.015843.6220@nas.nasa.gov> <C1IAH7.Lsx@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
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- Thus spake graaff@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (Hans de Graaff):
-
- >In article <1993Jan26.015843.6220@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
- >>2) start it under on the existing European hierarchies like de or sub or fr or
- >>what ever the Swiss hierarchy is, or eur.
- >The best option for this would be the eunet.* hierarchie, but I don't
- >know about their rules for creating new groups.
-
- A problem might be that it is not just Europeans who are interested in
- discussing skiing in Europe, and the eunet.* news groups are not
- necessarily well distributed outside of Europe. While I know that we
- receive some of the eunet.* news groups, we do not receive them all.
-
- Certainly, one could be forgiven for thinking that rec.skiing is just
- about skiing in North America (but don't most news groups have a
- North American bias? :-), and this probably inhibits people from
- posting on skiing in other parts of the world. However, in the grand
- scheme of things on Usenet, the volume of postings on rec.skiing
- would not be considered to be sufficient for a split (compare the
- volume to rec.sport.cricket, for example! :-).
-
- For the record, snow skiing is almost non-existent in Southern Africa,
- so it won't need its own news group! :-(
-
- Antony
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