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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Creating new groups (net.internat, net.os, et.al.)
Message-ID: <120@decvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 20:26:47 EDT
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I was glad that Gene took the trouble of explaining how news
groups *should* be created, but would like to point out
a flaw in this procedure: it assumes that people interested
in creating (or not creating) net.internat (for example)
subscribe to net.news, or was it net.news.group, to participate
in the discussion.  This is probably not the case and I would
recommend some other way of justifying a new group.

The remainder of this message concerns net.internat.  Although
its creation violated the conventions of the Usenet anarchy,
I feel it serves a useful purpose, and the messages I have
received to date bring up interesting and important issues.

Gene suggested that it might be reincarnated as a subgroup
to net.unix.  This isn't a good idea as international issues
cut across the entire computer field: language design to
accomodate non-Roman alphabets, operating system design,
terminal operation, telecommunications, etc.

Since I don't subscribe to net.news, please feel free to
comment by mail.

Martin Minow
decvax!minow