🚀 go-pugleaf

Adam Levin <alevin@ari.net> wrote:
: On 24 May 1996, Howard Leadmon wrote:
: 
: > : It exists on several other sites at this point as witnessed by the posts
: > : that have already been sent to the newsgroup. But certainly, it's up to
: > : you whether you add it to your news server. The only people it hurts are
: > : your customers who don't have access to it.
: >
: > Ahh, if I was the only site this might be the case, but since there was
: > never an official newgroup control message released, it will ONLY exist
: > on sites that happened to see the discussion and created the group by hand.
: 
: Sorry, you are incorrect. The newgroup control message DID in fact go out.
: It was written using the guidelines at:

Well I don't know how you generated the control message, but it sure sounds
like it didn't get very far.  I never saw it hit the ABSnet server, and
I know Jim didn't didn't see it on JaguNet.  ABSnet shares news with many
other local sites (UMD, CAIS, CapitolNet, Magnus Online, and many more),
and to think that none of the sites passed the message off to us is 
almost unbelieveable...


: This is getting rather silly, don't you think. You and Jim have been
: harping on the fact that this group was created without following THE
: GUIDELINES. 

I won't go into the whole bit again, but will basically go as far as to
say if the is NO GUIDELINE, then it is up to the local area NetNews
Admins to decide what groups are carried, and this heavy handed 
approch actually works very well if they various admins communicate 
back and forth.  Adam, if you are the admin of a large news server, and
want this group created, and see no guideline, then don't you think
the correct thing to do would be to contact some of the other server
admins and see if they agree with you and will back your actions??

The balt.config group was created by me when balt.* was setup, and 
this wasn't done before some discussion took place with several of 
the other large site admins...


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