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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,comp.mail.uucp,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: New newsgroup hierarchy
Message-ID: <1989Nov22.045538.16379@rpi.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 89 04:55:38 GMT
References: <1618.25614348@mccall.uucp> <1989Nov16.172110.21492@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <7030@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
Peter> I have a suggestion: let's make this a test-case for my
Peter> delegation idea.  Assign authority for comp.os.vms.* to the
Peter> vmsnet folks.

In <1989Nov20.162705.6355@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
Henry> Sounds good to me.  Maybe if we get the administrative trivia
Henry> out of the way, the real motives of the "vmsnet.*" group will
Henry> emerge.  (Surely you don't expect that they will actually go
Henry> along with such a reasonable idea...)

It sounds good to me too, but those admins who think the USENET which
is best is one that they never have to touch will surely complain
about having to add !comp.os.vms.all to outgoing feeds who didn't want
the data at all.

I really think it is worth the trouble though.  Why must admins who do
their jobs give way continually to those who choose to ignore actually
administering their system?  We get other "major" alternate
hierarchies including u3b, unix-pc, and now vmsnet.  Why can't they be
merged into the regular USENET namespace?

[Answer: because of the admins who just don't understand how it all
works.  "Uh, why did johann@bigvax.site.edu send a newgroup for
comp.os.vms.networks without a vote??"  No, I don't think it is a good
answer.  It is one I expect to hear though.]

[Why is this in comp.mail.uucp?  Heaven help he who breaks the message
chain, though.  (cf news.software.b)]

Dave
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