Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!woods
From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Scrap the current NG creation procedure, invent a new one
Message-ID: <2967@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 89 20:28:19 GMT
References: <3010@looking.UUCP> <445@flatline.UUCP> <4907@inco.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <4907@inco.UUCP> mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes:
>Perhaps my question wasn't sufficiently clearly stated. You have proposed
>yourself as the new keeper of the newsgroup list - the list that most
>admins use (in conjunction with the checkgroups messages, of which, I
>assume, you will also be the keeper) to determine which newsgroups are
>legitimate, still alive, moderated, etc.

   Perhaps it was my original proposal that was not clearly stated. The ONLY
duty which I will take over is maintaining the GUIDELINES. The official list
of groups will still be maintained and periodically posted by Gene Spafford. 
In fact, assuming Gene is willing to live with the guidelines I come up with
(I know he's on vacation right now which is why we haven't heard much from him
in this discussion) it is probably better for the net that the guidelines and
the list would NOT be maintained by the same person.

--Greg