Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!maui.cs.ucla.edu!marino From: marino@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Fabio Marino) Newsgroups: trial.soc.culture.italian Subject: Re: Trial group status Message-ID: <1991May19.012833.7988@cs.ucla.edu> Date: 19 May 91 01:28:33 GMT References: <1991May17.175010.23267@cs.ucla.edu> <1991May18.212351.24338@looking.on.ca> Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr. News Himself) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: maui.cs.ucla.edu In article <1991May18.212351.24338@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >Discussion of the future of the trial hierarchy is going on now in >the news.admin group. > >One suggestion that is gaining some acceptance is a switch from "trial.soc" >to "soc.trial" to avoid the problem of propagation. > >If this is done, it is possible that soc.trial.culture.italian would be >created forthwith, assuming the vote is abandoned. Or the vote could >continue and you could have nothing further to do with trials. >-- >Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473 Well, as far as I am concerned the idea of a trial group is good in theory but doesn't work in reality : no trial group has been promoted to regular status so far. Maybe, the switch to soc.trial will change things, but for now I think we have wasted way too much time with t.s.c.i. : had we gone for the vote in January, as I intended to, now we would have soc.culture.italian. Let's forget t.s.c.i. and in a few weeks we'll have a regular newsgroup. Fabio Marino -- Fabio Marino Graduate Student marino@cs.ucla.edu UCLA marino@cognet.ucla.edu Computer Science Department fabio@seas.ucla.edu Brain Research Institute