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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin
Subject: Re: Woods as 'newsgroup keeper'
Keywords: I don't know.
Message-ID: <3638@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 31 Mar 89 13:32:37 GMT
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In article <1681@ncar.ucar.edu>, woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) writes:
>   I would like to point out that I would be keeper of the GUIDELINES only,
> NOT 'newsgroup keeper'.

Sorry, I misunderstood. Still...

> I want to make the guidelines specific enough that there would be no
> arguments.

A fond desire, but I'm not convinced that it can be done. The current system
is specific enough so long as people understand it and follow it. The only
problem is that it hasn't been kept up in news.announce so nobody is quite
sure what it is.

> Either a new group proposal conforms to the guidelines or
> it doesn't, and it doesn't matter what my personal opinion on that particular
> group proposal is.

But as drafter of the guidelines, your opinion does matter. Can I at least
ask for a conservative approach?

>   As for Henry, as a non-citizen

Henry is a citizen of Canada. I am a citizen of Australia. I fail to see what
the relevence is. The net is not a U.S. dominion.

He is, also, a conservative voice on the net. He's unlikely to make any
drastic mid-course changes. Like opening up newsgroups for deletion wars.

How about maintaining the current rules, without the group deletion rider,
for a while at least? See how they work if they're properly distributed.
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