Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!xenitec!edhew From: edhew@xenitec.uucp (Ed Hew) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: DISCUSSION - modification of charter for news.announce.newgroups Message-ID: <1989Aug13.065203.6036@xenitec.uucp> Date: 13 Aug 89 06:52:03 GMT References: <3960@ncar.ucar.edu> Reply-To: edhew@xenitec.UUCP (Ed Hew) Followup-To: news.groups Distribution: na Organization: Xenitec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON Lines: 30 In article lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) writes: >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 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. Perhaps such announcements should take place in alt.announce.newgroups ? spaf does a great job of letting us know what's available in alternate news groups periodically. If we (collectively) are interested, we can always read those groups. If we don't get them already, feeds aren't that hard to find. On the other hand, there really would be no harm done in such an announcement, as we're talking about _very_little_ bandwidth here. I suppose an appropriate summary of my posting would be that there are 2 ways of looking at the situation, both of them valid. >Eliot Lear, The BIONET Project Ed. A. Hew Technical Trainer Xeni/Con Corporation work: edhew@xenicon.uucp -or- ..!{uunet!}utai!lsuc!xenicon!edhew ->home: edhew@egvideo.uucp -or- ..!{uunet!}watmath!egvideo!edhew ->home: changing to: edhew@xenitec.uucp [but be patient for new maps] # I haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on floppy around here somewhere!