🚀 go-pugleaf

Adam Levin <alevin@ari.net> writes:

>On 22 May 1996, Jim Jagielski wrote:

>> The procedure is to propose a new newsgroup and then give the rationale
>> behind it's need. From the above, it seems that a new proposed newgroup
>> would be balt.music (for the discussion of Baltimore area music).

>The group was proposed two weeks ago in balt.config. At the time, I asked
>if there was a protocol in place for the discussion and creation of new
>groups under the balt hierarchy, nobody seemed to know.

Oops... I must have missed that posting. Sorry 'bout that.

>> Now it's time to:
>>
>>    o Convince people that it's needed
>I'd say that enough people were convinced since many sites have decided to
>add it last week and discussion has begun in the group.

Ummm... I'm not sure if the fact that some lemmings may have jumped off
the cliff is a good reason to get me jumping shoes on ;) However, it
won't be the first time that a newsgroup was mistakenly created and
it started to grow.

>>    o Vote on it.

>So are you saying that there *is* an established protocol for newsgroup
>creation under the balt hierarchy? If so, please forward the balt FAQ. You
>do realize that you're two weeks late in speaking up about this though?

I missed the post. I offer my sincere and extreme apologies for missing
such a post. I will henceforth check the balt.config newsgroups every
hour, without fail, to avoid be so incredibly foolish in missing such
an all-fired, important message and yours undoubted was. <this was sarcasm,
for the humorly deficient>

The protocol for creating newsgroups (whether under balt. or whereever)
can be found quite easily; just search for it ("USENET" on Yahoo is
a good place to start).

Analogy time: Man goes to a house. Knocks on the door and no one
  answers. Being the enterprising type, he manages to find his way
  into the house anyway and calls out "Anybody mind if I move in?"
  Receiving no answer, he assumes that it's A-OK and makes himself
  at home. 2 weeks later, the renter who lives there comes back from
  vacation and is, justifyable confused by the circumstances. "Well,"
  says Man#1, "I was unaware of the procedures in actually renting it
  myself, and no one said anything when I asked, so I just went ahead
  and moved in. Oh yeah... you're 2 weeks late in complaining about
  it anyway."
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