Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mailrus!ncar!ames!ig!mcb From: mcb@presto.IG.COM (Michael C. Berch) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: newgroup comp.org.usenix.roomshare Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 89 00:45:35 GMT References: <299@usenix.UUCP> <2579@.stc.co.uk> Organization: IntelliGenetics, Inc., Mountain View, Calif. USA Lines: 24 In article <2579@.stc.co.uk> "David Wright" writes: > In article <299@usenix.UUCP> usenet@usenix.UUCP (USENET News Administration) > does a newgroup. > > No discussion in news.groups. No discussion in comp.org.usenix. > Just a newgroup message. This is not alt or bionet or inet where > certain people can create groups without asking. What's going on? > Unless someone can convince me that this is both genuine and legitimate > I'll send out an rmgroup. While it may technically violate the new group creation guidelines, we may wish to recognize an exception to them, that the responsible party for *.org.* newsgroups has the informal power to manage the namespace below *.org.xxx, so long as he/she works in concert with the central namespace authorities (i.e., the newgroup czars) and does not abuse the authority so delegated. The number of newsgroups may soon become so large as to require significant delegation in management of the namespace. There may need to be a "comp.sys.*" coordinator or a "rec.games.*" coordinator... -- Michael C. Berch mcb@presto.ig.com / uunet!presto.ig.com!mcb