Xref: utzoo misc.misc:2190 news.misc:1140 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww From: dww@stl.UUCP Newsgroups: misc.misc,news.misc Subject: Re: The solution to: Re: "We don't get that newsgroup here" Message-ID: <610@acer.stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 16 Jan 88 00:09:44 GMT References: <693@brandx.rutgers.edu> <505@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <112@falkor.UUCP> Reply-To: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) Organization: STL,Harlow,UK. Lines: 35 Posted: Fri Jan 15 19:09:44 1988 In article <112@falkor.UUCP> heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby) writes: #Richard A. O'Keefe (ok@quintus.UUCP) writes: #> Suppose we have (leaf)-->(link)-->(backbone) and (link) decides without #> asking (leaf) not to carry some newsgroup, (leaf) isn't to be allowed to #> post anything to any newsgroup? Save us from our "friends". # #There's a fairly simple fix for this problem. (leaf) talks to the admin #over at (backbone) and tells him/her that the bum who administers (link) #is dropping newsgroups. ... But what about when it IS the backbone that isn't passing the newsgroup? This discussion started because of postings of poems in misc.misc from the UK. The European gateway (mcvax) has to restrict groups coming in because of high trans-atlantic transmission costs. Thus rec.poems does not exist in Europe. Nothing stops people here posting poems - although there is no .poems. group in Europe, our national and continental general groups (uk.general/uk.followup and eunet.general/eunet.followup) run at a level where a few poems would be quite acceptable. But if only posted there, US (& can, oz, etc) readers would not see them. So the question is, do you (collective) want to see such postings from Europe or not? If so, then misc.misc probably IS the most appropriate group we share in common. If not, then I hope they'll still be posted within Europe. If the volume of poems was very high, and each set off lots of counter- arguments - eg if someone were to post on politics or religion or the relationship between Marxism and Atheism to misc.misc that would be another matter of course - such controversial articles would always go to the talk.religion/politics groups, wouldn't they, especially when posted in the USA where such groups have wide coverage (:-)). -- Regards, David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK dww@stl.stc.co.uk ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww PSI%234237100122::DWW