Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!mcnc!ecsvax.uncecs.edu!uncmed!calico!unccab From: unccab@calico.med.unc.edu (Charles Balan) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Emergency Newsgroups (was: CfD: Interest Group Surveys ...) Message-ID: <161@uncmed.med.unc.edu> Date: 19 Feb 90 16:15:12 GMT References: <1990Feb7.224449.8453@diku.dk> <6317@ncar.ucar.edu> <1990Feb18.221529.7429@sq.sq.com> <98509@looking.on.ca> Sender: news@uncmed.med.unc.edu Reply-To: unccab@uncmed.med.unc.edu (Charles Balan) Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine Lines: 35 In article <98509@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > >I think it would be nice if temporary subgroups of "news.groups" could >be created and removed freely by a responsible individual. Many >debates could have been put in such groups to everybody's benefit. > Actually, I think that this is quite a good idea. I can envision needs for it. The problem would be to find the "responsible individual." I think that a co-moderation of 2 or 3 "responsible persons" would be the best bet, although that sounds overly-bureaucratic even to me. What about this: 1 responsible person empowered to create the emergency news.groups.*, but there must be a minimum number of postings to that group per /day/week/month (depending on the nature of the beast) to the effect that, once the "emergency group" has dwindled to less than the prescribed number of postings, it should then be removed or voted on to be replaced by a proper domain.group. Also, if it is felt that the group may be properly categorized anyway (as in sci.physics.fusion or whatever) it would be easier to create a logical group while this *emergency* group was already functioning (similar to alt.*, eh?) but there would be no need to alt.* the group in order to get it running right away. In any case, the minimum number of postings would help ensure that the "responsible person" would abide by existing rules and also not get flamed for removing or creating emergency groups. S/He would just be an expediter. Comments? Questions? No flames to my personage please, but feel free to disagree. Thank you. Charles Balan UNCCAB@med.unc.edu , UNCCAB@uncmed.uucp , UNCCAB@unc.bitnet %%%%%%%%%%%%% A Witty Saying Proves Nothing - Voltaire %%%%%%%%%%%%