Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ziploc!eps From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: newgroup comp.org.usenix.roomshare Summary: A bad, bad precendent Message-ID: <211@toaster.SFSU.EDU> Date: 29 Dec 89 12:49:09 GMT References: <299@usenix.UUCP> <2579@.stc.co.uk> Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Organization: San Francisco State University Lines: 31 In article mcb@presto.IG.COM (Michael C. Berch) writes: >In article <2579@.stc.co.uk> "David Wright" writes: >> In article <299@usenix.UUCP> usenet@usenix.UUCP (USENET News Administration) >> No discussion in news.groups. No discussion in comp.org.usenix. No announcement in news.announce.newgroups... >> Just a newgroup message. >> Unless someone can convince me that this is both genuine and legitimate >> I'll send out an rmgroup. Please DO. I was just too apathetic to do it myself (I figured I didn't need to add to the expected flood of rmgroups). Genuine or not, it's not legitimate. Not even USENIX deserves special recognition. (BTW, neither of my sites honored the newgroup) >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 I can see it now... Call for discussion--comp.org.aquaria This newsgroup is proposed to take advantage of the exception allowing org groups to do as they damn well please in the mainstream namespace. No thank you. -=EPS=-