Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!milano!zephyr!werner From: werner@zephyr.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: mercy rule Message-ID: <3487@zephyr.sw.mcc.com> Date: 21 Feb 90 10:33:03 GMT References: <6358@ncar.ucar.edu> <8254@chaph.usc Reply-To: werner@zephyr.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) Organization: MCC, Austin, Texas Lines: 21 In <8254@chaph.usc.edu> tli@phakt.usc.edu (Tony Li) writes: > >One of my pet ideas for a while has been to have the charter for each >group available as an article somewhere in the tree. This seems like >a logical extension.... yes, yes, yes - such an article should be the first article in each news-group and it should never expire but only be superceded by a later article (I am not sure if the first one should even get deleted when a later one supercedes it - a little history of where a group originally came from could prove both useful and interesting. In more recent cases, the call for a creation vote with the definition of the group and a highlight of the arguments which surfaced during the discussion would also prove useful to keep around) -- --------------------------> please send REPLIES to <------------------------ INTERNET: werner@cs.utexas.edu or: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet # 128.83.144.1) UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!werner