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From: root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Suggestion for creation of new group: accommodation.exchange
Message-ID: <195@libove.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 88 05:02:01 GMT
References: <8472@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Organization: Libove, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
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From article <8472@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>, by jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II):
> In article <494@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> hrafsanjani@axion.bt.co.uk writes:
>>I propose creating a new group for accommodation exchange.  This could be
>>used by people who wish to swap accommodation while away on holiday or
>>business.  Indeed, there could be more than just one such group - one global
>>and several regionals or country-wides.
> 
> This was suggested some time ago for looking for ride sharing partners.
> Arguments against included the very limited usefulness of the group.  A
> globally broadcast message should help out more than two people [ the
> sender and the person accepting the exchange ].
> 
> I agree with that line of arguing and therefore object to the newsgroup.

I was going to respond to this mentioning the attempt to get "rec.travel"
created some time back, but John beat me to it :-)

I supported rec.travel, with some sort of trickery to allow what Mr. Sanjani
(?? only have above message ID to go from) suggests, that is

I want a ride-to/accomodation-in Grinnell, Iowa. Well, obviously I don't
want that posted internationally, but if I post it here in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania with a "Distribution: ia" line, it won't even get anywhere. So
I would need some way of getting it to that area. Perhaps one moderator in
each geographical area with autorouting from some central address, so I
would _mail_ it the automoderator which would then _post_ it to the
appropriate regions via the local moderators. That should be easy to do from
the standpoint of what the world at large sees - they just see the group as
moderated, so posts to the group get mailed to the (auto)moderator.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this implementation idea? I would very much
like to see the newsgroup created, probably as rec.travel. I'd be happy to
act as the Western Pennsylvania area moderator for the group.

Well, we'll see. :-)

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