🚀 go-pugleaf

Adam Levin <alevin@ari.net> wrote:
: On 22 May 1996, Howard Leadmon wrote:
: 
: > Jim, I agree with you 100% on this issue.  It's crazy to go out and
: > create groups because you think it's a good idea.  A discussion on the
: > issue needs to be brought up in balt.config (and possibly crossposted to
: > balt.general) as the the need for this group.
: 
: Did you bother to look in balt.config two weeks ago?

Sure, I saw the post, and I had no official comment, so I didn't reply
at that time.  Am I required to respond to every posting in balt.config?

All I am saying is that if there was any interest, somebody should have
posted about the group, and since nobody did there wasn't the needed
interest to create the group.  I will also state that the initial
posting asking about interest should have been posted in balt.general 
and balt.config, as it will catch peoples attention.  Then the 
followups should be posted in balt.config where such discussions are
supposed to take place.

 
: >  If most of the large site
: > admins agree, then it will be created.  I know for a fact that balt.music
: > dosen't exist here...
: 
: 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.
Will this hurt the users on my sight, I doubt it, and I will stand by
my statement that either the correct newgroup control msg needs to be
distributed, or I will have to see sufficient volume in my unwanted
newsgroups log to consider creation.  A group that exists on only a
half dozen different machines is not a group in my opinion.  As I have
said before, I am a BOFH and in my 15 years on this net I have always
stood by my principals...


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