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From: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Scrap the current NG creation procedure, invent a new one
Message-ID: <4883@inco.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 89 15:11:30 GMT
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In article <1361@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) writes:
>
>In article <4870@inco.UUCP> mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes:
>
>> I personally favor a "tmp" hierarchy. If you want a group created, say
>> comp.soft-sys.andrew, get your nearest friendly admin to create a 
>> group called "tmp.comp.soft-sys.andrew". If, after a few months,
>> the group has a reasonable amount of traffic, conduct a vote on whether to
>> move it into the comp hierarchy as comp.soft-sys.andrew, rename it,
>> leave it in tmp or trash it entirely. People who don't want to participate
>> in the experiment can ax the entire tmp hierarchy. 
>
>A very good idea.  As it is now votes are silly.  People are voting for
>or against what they *think* the new group will be like.  They don't know
>and probably aren't even close in what they imagine.
>
>If a whole tmp.* hierarchy is too much, how about one group: news.tryout?

If you're going to do that, you may as well use *.misc. The point of
having a separate hierarchy is to allow a group to be created outside
the standard hierarchies so its utilization can be monitored. If you
used news.tryout, you could only have one experimental group running
at a time or all the postings from the experimental groups would be
jammed together. Also, people wouldn't have any way of knowing what
the group was about without reading the postings.

A separate hierarchy with discrete newsgroups in it really is necessary for 
this to work.

-- 
Dave Mack