Xref: utzoo news.admin:6542 news.groups:11539 news.misc:3486 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!lear From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,news.misc Subject: DISCUSSION - modification of charter for news.announce.newgroups Message-ID: Date: 11 Aug 89 20:44:17 GMT References: <3960@ncar.ucar.edu> Followup-To: news.admin Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 20 To: woods@ncar.UCAR.EDU I protest the charter of news.announce.newgroups, that the moderator will not post messages announcing new groups in heirarchies that are not part of the `traditional USENET list of groups'. If news.announce.newgroups is to be the place for the announcment of properly created groups, then it should be used for ALL hierarchies. It is not enough to simply post such announcements in the `alternate hierarchy', because a new topic could interest someone outside of that hierarchy. In the case of the bionet groups, we are expanding to handle fields outside of molecular biology. Each time a new group props up in our hierarchy, I receive several requests for new feeds. If spaf can mention such groups in the list of alternate hierarchies, there should be no reason to censor announcements such as mine from news.announce.newgroups. Therefore, I request a change in the charter. Eliot Lear The BIONET Project