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From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: moderated "newsgroups" group
Message-ID: <3486@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 89 16:26:14 GMT
References: <3400@ncar.ucar.edu> <1528@stl.stc.co.uk>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <1528@stl.stc.co.uk> "David Wright" <dww@stl.stc.co.uk> writes:
>We also have to understand and agree what happens if a group gets proposed
>in news.groups without being posted to n.g.announce.   Should the moderator
>pick it up and post to n.g.announce?  

  I expect that what will happen there is someone will mail the poster and
suggest that his article go to the moderated group. 

>I think that in the event of a topical group
>creation, where there is good reason to move faster than usual, it should
>be possible to create the group as soon as enough votes come in.

   The problem with this is that there is no good way to determine whether
there is "good reason to move faster than usual". I am NOT comfortable with
the person proposing the group making this decision; nor do I want the
responsibility for deciding this myself. If it's topical, create it in 
alt while the creation process for the main net goes on.

--Greg