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Tim Weaver <weavert@primenet.com> writes:

>Count me as one of the interested...

Count me as apposed.

Newsgroups are normally created because of a need for them.  

When a topic comes up over and over again in a general group, it makes
sense to create a subgroup to handle that load on its own.

There isn't as far as I can tell a large number of gun related posting
currently in any of the az.* groups.

Most postings are in the form of Forsale advertisements.  But if you look
at all the forsale postings, I think you will find many more for Auto's than
for Guns.

It certainly doesn't make any sense to create 3 new groups for a topic
that has so little current interest in the existing newsgroups.

Even if the proposal should go forward, the currently proposed newsgroup
names don't make any sense with the current naming scheme:

	az.guns
	az.guns.forsale
	az.guns.politics 

You are creating a new major category under the AZ.* newsgroup hierarchy.

With the current AZ.* naming conventions, it would make more sense to
use that structure and name them as:

	az.forsale.guns
	az.politics.guns
	az.general.guns

As there are already az.forsale and az.politics, the naming convention
should be continued rather than creating a new one.

In any case, I still don't see any pressing need to create one new
newsgroup for such a sparce subject, let alone 3 of them.

More newsgroups just gives people more places to place their spam...

I just can't wait until all those Non-Gun Forsale advertisements show
up in the newly created guns forsale newsgroup....  I hear you can
earn $50,000 just by sending a ...  

:-)