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From: bamst3@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Brian A. Mermon)
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Subject: Re: a newsgroup for the discussion of non-commercial radio
Message-ID: <21767@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 90 20:37:32 GMT
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Reply-To: bamst3@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Brian A. Mermon)
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In article <3664@hub.UUCP> 6600pete@hub.UUCP (Pete Gontier) writes:
>> Nah. Let's go for the group.

>I appreciate your enthusiasm, but that's not the way things work. Standard
>practice is to start a mailing list first. It may not be in the guidelines
>(I honestly don't remember), but it's standard practice.

Nah.  Greg Woods changed the guidelines to discourage people from starting
mailing lists.  Since you can't use the mailing list to justify the newsgroup
anymore, you'd be an idiot to start one if you really wanted a newsgroup.
Why shoot yourself in the foot?  Better to just go for a newsgroup and get
it over with.  If a legitimate topic, like this one, is voted down by bozos
while fishy.groups get 3 newsgroups, then I say it's time to abandon the
stupid guidelines.

>I'll vote against it until the mailing list gets a decent amount of traffic.

Go ahead.  I wasn't going to vote at all.  Now, I'll vote yes.

Brian