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From: erbo@papaya.ucsb.edu (Eric J. Bowersox)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION:  Creation of news.groups.d
Summary: Hear hear! ; One news.groups reader's experience
Keywords: news.groups.d
Message-ID: <1844@hub.ucsb.edu>
Date: 24 May 89 19:00:23 GMT
References: <2017@internal.Apple.COM> <61490@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <240@phavl.UUCP>
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In article <240@phavl.UUCP> rob@phavl.UUCP (Robert Ransbottom) writes:
>In article <61490@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>, Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) writes:
>> We need more organization in news.groups.  One possibility is to create a
>> news.groups.d for followup discussions....
>
> [...]
>
>The ramifications as I see them:
> - A post to news.groups still serves as "official notice".
> - News.groups becomes a "readable" group (newsadmins take note).
> - People can skip news.group.d unless there is an issue they'd wish to see.

It's about time someone got this idea going!  I read this newsgroup fairly
frequently (it's about #8 in my .newsrc :-) ), I voted on the creation of
soc.feminism (no flames, PLEASE!), I have been tuning in to look for the
results, and I have been fairly swamped in the resultant flamefest! And, with
a disk quota of 300K, I can't afford a massive kill file for news.groups :-(.

Let's place the discussion (from all sources) somewhere else and get on with
the efficient creation of new newsgroups.  Perhaps, eventually, news.groups
can become moderated once people get used to the news.groups.d idea.

(I should direct followups to news.groups.d...but I can't yet....)


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