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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Scrap the current NG creation procedure, invent a new one
Message-ID: <445@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 20:45:42 GMT
References: <3010@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Organization: Cold Lampin With Flav'
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In article <3010@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Replace it with what?  The next posting says.  If you have a real
>replacement, let's hear yours, too.

Not having read the next posting...

A cabal.  Not a backbone cabal, but a siteadmin cabal.  A mailing list
limited to "root", "postmaster" and "usenet" at each site on the Usenet.

Anyone wanting a new newsgroup would have to convince a site's usenet
admin (needn't be their *own* siteadmin, just any site admin) to bring
it up on the mailing list.

Site admins would "vote" on newgroup creation, with the vote count/names
posted to news.admin (or wherever).  Summaries of mailing list traffic
could be regularly posted to news.whatever.

It probably has some holes, but it seems sound at 0245hrs. 1/2 :-)


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