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- From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Message-ID: <H.YcvkJoiyiN6@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: One of these days for sure
- Subject: Re: RFD:comp.sys.atari.znet
- References: <H.NUIKd3zkc12@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> <68okPB1w164w@status.gen.nz>
- Reply-To: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 04:42:58 -0700
- Lines: 39
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- In <68okPB1w164w@status.gen.nz>, Jon Clarke writes:
- >jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes:
- >> These are my arguments against the new group.
- >
- > Thanks for your input John, maybe you would like to post this in
- >news.groups with the rest of the discussion.
-
- As several other posters have pointed out, there is no discussion
- in news.groups. This could be because your crosspost was mistakenly
- posted to _news.group_, as someone else pointed out, which means any
- discussion would likely be going on in most systems junk directories,
- unless they have just dropped it on the floor.
-
- Also, if you check the newuser postings, you'll find an article
- called "How to create a new newsgroup." This will give you all the
- suggested guidelines for creating said group. Another suggested
- source of interest is the " What is Usenet posting ".
-
- One other thing. Two actually. You will find that an RFD will not
- be considered real until it has been mailed to tail@rpi. Secondly, on
- splits and reorganizations, it is customary to at least have a bit of
- discussion on the affected groups before issuing a RFD, so a well thought
- out charter and answers to the various questions that will be asked can
- be answered.
- Most of the questions I brought up in my original post are fairly
- stock for news.groups regulars, and better answers are needed if you want
- a snowball's chance of getting the group passed, which I think is unlikely
- at best. In your proposal, you showed no reason why the new group would
- be any different in substance than c.s.a.st or c.s.a.st.tech.
- Why don't you just gateway the znet feed into c.s.a.st? It's not like
- we're drowning in messages as it is.
- Or better yet, gateway it to a mailing list, and let those interested
- subscribe.
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