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From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
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Subject: Re: tmp.* hierarchy (was: moderated "newsgroups" group)
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Date: 6 Jul 89 01:03:52 GMT
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In article <12066@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
>why doesn't alt fit all the things you want tmp to do?
 
   For the simple reason that only about half the net gets "alt".

>Is it because alt is outside the jurisdiction of the rule making
>powers of the mainline Usenet?  If so, weeell, I see the point
>and mumble something about silly politics...

  You are entitled to your opinion, but the fact that everyone WILLINGLY
follows the newsgroup creation procedures, and the unbelievable number of votes
that have already come in in only 7 days on news.announce.newgroups, show that
most people out there who care don't think the "politics" are "silly".
  In actuality, tmp also has one major difference from ordinary alt groups: 
groups under tmp will be created KNOWING they will be deleted after a fixed
amount of time.  This currently does not apply to "alt".

--Greg