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From: clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: SRH (soc.rights.human) is up, but with problems
Message-ID: <1989Aug27.164129.5585@acheron.uucp>
Date: 27 Aug 89 16:41:29 GMT
References: <19297@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>
Organization: Ciliophora Associates
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From article <19297@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>, by tjw@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (TJ Wood WA3VQJ):
- In article <4121@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
- Perhaps the guidelines should contain language to indicate that certain
- sites are not the "seal of approval" of USENET, just in case someone has
- this mistaken belief.  It seems to be the case, from what I've read,
- that some sysadmins believe that a group is only valid if it comes from

On the contrary, I don't care who creates the group.  Feel free to create
comp.sex.wombats ( for discussion of computer assisted sex with wombats ) -
it'll be added here.  At the end of the month, when Gene sends around his
list of valid newsgroups, it will also be deleted.  

Validity is determined by your presence in the article(s) "List of Active 
Newsgroups" (posted by Gene to news.lists every month).  If the group
is not local, and is not in this list, but is in a group covered by the
list then it's invalid and gets deleted (locally).  I do not send out an
offsite rmgroup but the group stops being fed to my downstream sites.
(Note: there are also lists of alternative [alt.*, bionet.* etc.] groups
 that are posted along with the above article.)

To the best of my knowledge, only one group ( something about tcp/ip on 
ENIAC machines ) has been rejected by Gene despite the vote.  Since this
was an obvious attempt to be a pain in the ass,  he's been forgiven for
omitting it.  Send a note  to spaf@purdue.EDU with the results of your
vote and a one liner (half a line) description of the group.  If it doesn't
show up, then start complaining (publicly, in news.sysadmin).
-- 
Ed Clarke
acheron!clarke