Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!woods
From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Disappeared Message to Newgroups
Message-ID: <5194@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 89 18:38:43 GMT
References: <14571@well.UUCP> <14572@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <14572@well.UUCP> bluefire@well.UUCP (Bob Jacobson) writes:
>In article <14571@well.UUCP> bluefire@well.UUCP (Bob Jacobson) writes:
>>
>>I put up a Call for Discussion for a proposed newsgroup.  The
>>message never made it to news.announce.newgroups 

  I did post the message. It turns out that the Newsgroups: and Distribution:
headers were corrupted due to an excessive number of newsgroups cross-posted
to, and the resulting too long Newsgroups: header line. It went out with
a Newsgroups: header of only news.announce.newgroups, but the Distribution:
header was totally munged, which probably explains why it didn't get very
far. I have reposted the article with the headers corrected. My apologies
for not noticing this the first time.

But it does bring up a point. Generally speaking, it really isn't necessary
to cross-post your proposal to 45 groups. I can't imagine a situation where
more than 10 or so would be required. Please try to limit the number of
groups cross-posted to. 

--Greg