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From: gil@banyan.UUCP (Gil Pilz@Eng@Banyan)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: renaming a group (was: Re: DISCUSSION)
Message-ID: <589@banyan.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 16:03:57 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.191833.19704@talos.uucp>
Reply-To: gil@banyan.com
Organization: Banyan Systems, Inc.
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In article <1989Nov14.191833.19704@talos.uucp> kjones@talos.uu.net writes:
>Some procedure needs to be ordained for renaming groups, in preparation
>for the day when a group really needs to be renamed.  So, to start the
>discussion, my idea of how a rename should be done appears below.

>  2. Post note to news.admin asking admins to alias <old-group> to
>     <new-group> at their sites.

Never hoppen mon. I mean, sure you could post the note but most site
admins either won't see it or won't do anything about it. From what
I've read in this group before apparently most sites are run on a
"hands off - if it ain't broke don't fix it" basis. You need some sort
of automatic aliasing message that works like a newgroup message (i.e.
by default the admin doesn't have to do anything). Of course this
opens the doors for "aliasing wars" but umm . . . 

Gilbert W. Pilz Jr.       gil@banyan.com