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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Re: proposed 'standard' for creating new groups
Message-ID: <600@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 13:03:07 EST
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.600
Posted: Sun Mar  9 13:03:07 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Mar-86 04:13:05 EST
References: <258@maynard.UUCP> <891@vortex.UUCP>
Reply-To: laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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In article <891@vortex.UUCP> lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) writes:
>An extreme example:
>
>Large site foo, with 30 users who actually read netnews, and large site
>bar, with another 30, see a vote request to discuss styrofoam in a proposed
>new group net.foam.  As it turns out, foo and bar's people have a thing
>about stryofoam, and send in 60 yes votes.  Not too many other people
>care one way or another so there aren't many no votes.  Is this an
>appropriate situation for creating a new newsgroup?  I think most people
>would agree that it is not.  

Nope.  I think that most people would agree that it is.  What really
would happen is that the people on foo and bar would start sending messages
about styrofoam to net.singles (styrofoam couches as a great way to
conclude a date) and net.periphs (styrofoam packaging as noise sheilding)
and net.sports and net.rec (styrofoam surf boards rewconsidered as a 
result of lacquer 123) and net.consumers (400 uses for a piece of
styrofoam).  I mean, they are *really interested*!!. What options do
you have?

Maybe you can convince the foo'ers and bar'ers to set up a mailing list.

This can be tried, irrespective of setting up net.foam.

If not, your choices are -- put up with them in your favourite newsgroup,
unsubscribe to that newsgroup, or give them their own place to post
and unsubscribe from that.

A mailing list would be the best solution here -- but unsubscribing to
net.singles and net.periphs and net.sports and net.rec and net.consumers
simply because you don't like the volume of styrofoam articles would
be the worst.
-- 
Laura Creighton		
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