Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!yale!Horne-Scott From: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: SRH (soc.rights.human) is up, but with problems Message-ID: <70685@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 25 Aug 89 20:05:50 GMT References: <19391@usc.edu> <19433@usc.edu> <578@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> <19448@usc.edu> <4121@ncar.ucar.edu> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 34 In-reply-to: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) In article <4121@ncar.ucar.edu>, woods@ncar (Greg Woods) writes: > In article <19448@usc.edu> kriz@skat.usc.edu (Dennis Kriz) writes: > >Greg Woods IS obligated to create the group if it says that to create > >the group one can send a message to that effect to "newgroup@ncar.ucar.edu" > > That address is not my personal mailbox, it goes to several people. The > guidelines say that if your system administrator can't create the group, > you can send a message to that address. NOWHERE does it say that anyone is > obligated to respond to such a request. Nor does it say anywhere that newgroup > messages have to come from a certain set of people. Honoring only certain > people's newgroup messages is a decision made independently by certain site > administrators and does NOT come out of the guidelines. Then that should be made very clear in the guidelines. > >The inspiration for SRH was SCC (soc.culture.china). > > The political discussions in SCC are not appropriate to the original charter > of the newsgroup. And how! > While there is nothing that can be done to stop them (short > of creating a talk.politics.china) Even that wouldn't stop them, of course. --Scott Scott Horne Undergraduate programmer, Yale CS Dept Facility horne@cs.Yale.edu ...!{harvard,cmcl2,decvax}!yale!horne Home: 203 789-0877 SnailMail: Box 7196 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 Work: 203 432-1260 Summer residence: 175 Dwight St, New Haven, CT Dare I speak for the amorphous gallimaufry of intellectual thought called Yale?