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From: gam@uts.amdahl.com (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: DISCUSSION - modification of charter for news.announce.newgroups
Message-ID: <03Vo02th4a=301@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 12 Aug 89 23:49:42 GMT
References: <3960@ncar.ucar.edu= <Aug.11.13.44.17.1989.4684@NET.BIO.NET> <629@sequoia.UUCP>
Reply-To: gam@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Gordon Moffett)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In the referenced article, dewey@sequoia.UUCP (Dewey Henize) writes:
# Spaf's list of alternate hierarchies seems reasonable and adequate here.  
# Otherwise we might get to the point where <deity of your choice> forbid, we
# end up expecting and requireing all the alt.* groups to be announced in
# news.announce.newgroups as well.

This is exactly what I object to, also.  Leave alt.* out of it.
alt.config serves that purpose for now, and to include it in
news.announce.newgroups would lead to more centralized regulation.

I have voted 'no'.
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Gordon A. Moffett                             gam@uts.amdahl.com
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