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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (Dave Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: news.billboard
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Date: 8 Dec 89 11:23:59 GMT
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In <74831@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> kannan@cis.ohio-state.edu (Kannan Varadhan):

   Isn't that what news.announce.newgroups is supposed to be doing, with
   its "call for discussions" postings?

No, it's not.  news.announce.newgroups is not intended at all to
serve the function which Ross proposes.  It is to notify people of
new groups (and, as an added charter, some mailing lists) that have
been created, or are simply being proposed.  The call for discussion
is only to discuss whether groop foo should exist, not to discuss the
topics of foo.  Yes, sometimes people overlook that (all of the
gambling discussion in news.groups comes to mind), but it is the sole
purpose.

Dave
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