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From: deh0654@sjfc.UUCP (Dennis Hamilton)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.hypertext
Subject: Re: closure of alt.hypertext [Re: Does this group really exist]
Summary: No, please don't do that, there's a problem ...
Message-ID: <182@sjfc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 14:50:14 GMT
References: <3468@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <7255@apple.UUCP> <3585@mcdchg.UUCP> <772@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: deh0654@sjfc.UUCP (Dennis Hamilton)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Saint John Fisher College, Rochester, NY
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In article <772@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes:
>[Summary: As quasi-group creator of alt.hypertext, below I am claiming
>that it was right to create the group and that it is now right to
>rmgroup the group and wait a week to see if anyone else feels strongly
>enough to want to create the group.  . . . 
>. . .  I PROPOSE THAT WE RMGROUP THE GROUP WITH A REQUEST TO
>WAIT FOR A WEEK TO LET THE RMGROUP SETTLE.  THEN IF SOMEONE ELSE FEELS
>THAT THEY WANT TO CREATE ALT.HYPERTEXT, THEY ARE WELCOME TO.  . . .
>------ BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)

No, No, don't do that.  You over-estimate the speed with which alt.hypertext
has become known across the net and attracted attention.  For example, we
haven't seen anywhere nearly as many messages here as they have in Cupertino,
and it took the query about whether the group even existed to start filling
the article directory here.  So you haven't really determined the interest
level.  Also, I'm not even sure that alt.config is present here!  I certainly
wouldn't have known to follow it for a discussion about creating and rm-ing
a group.  The dispersal of alt-groups is still very dodgy and takes quite a
while for the news-trickle to percolate out here to the distant leaves.
(Your proposal just arrived this a.m., for example, ok?)

I think if you rmgroup alt.hypertext, the attendant confusion and ripples
will muck it up completely for those of us who are just warming up to this
group.  

Please wait a couple of months and see what happens then, ok?

	Dennis E. Hamilton

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