Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CALL FOR LOCAL DISCUSSION: Split the c.s.a group more? Keywords: newsgroups Message-ID: <1990Oct19.012442.2812@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 19 Oct 90 01:24:42 GMT References: <1990Oct9.002011.18060@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Oct10.021956.24856@servalan.uucp> <1108@bilver.UUCP> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 34 bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) writes: > ben@servalan.uucp (Ben Mesander) writes: >>I suggest that we start a new group, comp.sys.amiga.newgroups, that we can >>move this thread about making new groups into. It'd lower the traffic in >>comp.sys.amiga by quite a bit. >> > >Discussions like this belong in news.groups, not in the system >hierarchy. I just came into this group to post the previous >message because I got new groups today that I don't beleive were >ever discussed in the news.groups section. This affects those of >us who administer systems, because we can't read all, but we do try >to keep up with the news sections to better adminster the machines. >I don't believe I saw the new group proposals in the voting list >that was posted last week, but I may be wrong. You didn't. We'll get there, Bill. This is a complex subject, and needs to be thrashed out among the interested parties for a while rather than being presented to the whole net in a state of disarray. I anticipate a CFD around 1 Nov 1990. I apologize to the net for the over-eager forger who tried to create the groups before the formal discussion had even begun. I guess a lot of folks out there don't understand that it is literally _impossible_ to force your personal choices on a consensual anarchy. Most sysadmins intercept and hand apply newgroup and rmgroup messages, and won't respect any for which no discussion and voting have occurred in the groups dedicated to such purposes, so forged control messages, while easy to do, and a nuisance, are also a waste of time, and only demonstrate immaturity to a wide audience. Kent, the man from xanth.