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From: spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.internat
Message-ID: <1685@gatech.CSNET>
Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 09:27:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: gatech.1685
Posted: Wed Oct 23 09:27:46 1985
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Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
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Keywords: net.internat, rmgroup, net.bureaucrats
Summary: no problems with "net" status, just objections to procedure and naming.

Folks, let me clear something up.  I didn't suggest that "net.internat"
was tackling problems that should be confined to a European distribution.
What I actually suggested was that the group start out as something
like a mailing list or regional distribution (like eunet) until
it established a consistent volume of postings.

Net.internat should not have been created.

Now I'm not trying to say it isn't a "worthy" topic (whatever that
means in a net which ranks net.flame, net.jokes, net.politics, and
net.abortion as top newsgroups), but it was created without a
previously shown volume of postings *and* there were questions raised
about its name which were never addressed or answered.

If we allow groups to just pop up because some group thinks it is a
nifty idea and they've got a great name for it, we'll soon be flooded
with groups.  All will be worthwhile to some group of special
interests, but that DOES NOT mean that they are especially appropriate
for a newsgroup.  That's why we have the procedure that we do -- to
ensure that the group belongs as a netwide group, and to be sure that
the naming is appropriate.

My original suggestion to Pete was that the group start as a mailing
list.  That way, you could also pick up Arpa contributors and get a
broader base for input.  If there is enough interest and a consistent
volume of submission, then let's go with either a "mod" or "net" group
for it.  I'm not trying to advocate any "eunet ghetto."

I'm the only one who feels this way.  I'm just one of the more vocal
ones who happens to be acting on it.  See my article in net.announce
for more detail.
-- 
Gene "sometime in 1986" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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