🚀 go-pugleaf

Adam Levin <alevin@ari.net> wrote:
: On 27 May 1996, Jim Jagielski wrote:
: 
: Good start, but I must humbly suggest (being a stickler for details
: myself) that you post this as an official request for discussion in
: balt.config and that after a period of discussion a formal vote be taken
: whether to accept these guidelines that you've come up with. 

I am sure this comment was to spite Jim, who I think has done an
excelent job of putting together a basic charter for balt.*.  I personally
commend Jim for an excelent job...


: After all,
: the adopting of a set of guidelines for a news hierarchy is no small
: matter. What would the internet become if a few people were able to impose
: their own rules for how these things should be governed without a proper
: RFD or CFV? We wouldn't want to have anarchy here, would we? 8)

I believe Jim said in the document that it was a draft, and wanted 
peoples input as to if it was acceptable to the general readers.  I
personally think this is a first, as generally policy is dictated
by the admins of the sites that carry the groups.  I know that Jim 
is the admin of JaguNet, and has every right to dictate policy on his
server, but has taken the time to solicite public opinion on some
basic procedures for group creation.

The bottom line is, USENET (NetNews) is an anarchy!  It is controlled
by the admins who run the various servers, and if you want to get a
group propigated, then you have to play the game.  The dc.* heirarchy
has been run like this for years, and people know that if you try and
just create a new newsgroup, it isn't going to go anyplace.  So going
around and pissing off the NetNews Site Admins sure isn't going to make
a group work.  It's true that some sites will allow the creation of
any group that  just  happens to float by the server, but this is not
the norm, and in fact most admins won't even create a new group 
automatically so thay can avoid most of the trash groups that always
seem to float around..

 
: -Adam

Hey Adam, are you the site admin for ARI.NET where you are posting from??


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