Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: DISCUSSION - modification of charter for news.announce.newgroups Message-ID: <14549@bfmny0.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 89 00:22:38 GMT References: <3960@ncar.ucar.edu> <3027@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <415@wet.UUCP> <3978@ncar.ucar.edu> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Organization: ^ Lines: 20 One problem with restricting other-hierarchy newgroup announcements to their own distributions (new BIONET group announcements only in dist:bionet, new ALT announcements only in dist:alt, etc), is that mainstream people who might well consider adding another hierarchy to their feed (if they knew what was in them these days) won't hear about it. Perhaps I never wanted a "biz" feed because it didn't look worth the disk space, but now there's a new "biz.solar" group and I'm in the solar heating business. If it's only announced in "biz.config" I'll miss it. Spaf's diffs are hard on the eyes as news. (Quick - what was added last month?!) The hair splitting about "allow but do not force" is vacuous. No one can force the alternate hierarchies to do anything. "Allow" is the only real decision that's ours to make. I think any new group with more than local distribution should be eligible to announce in news.announce.newgroups if so desired. -- "We walked on the moon -- (( Tom Neff you be polite" )) tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET