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Una Smith (una@doliolum.biology.yale.edu) wrote:
: There is a proposal for a major Usenet hierarchy for railroads
: going on now in news.groups.  Why not coordinate with that plan,
: rather than starting your own group in bit.*?

and Jonathan Grobe (grobe@ins.infonet.net) wrote: 
:>   It is  not related to any  newsgroup, and should not  be gatewayed to
:>any other group.
:> 
:Why not gate it to rec.railroad?

The RAILROAD list is NOT the same.  People like the RAILROAD list because 
of less traffic, and a gateway to rec.railroad would drive everyone 
away.  One plus point to RAILROAD is that we limit traffic, so people are 
encouraged not to post junk messages.

Second, I would not want to become a part of certain problems, as the 
railroad split is sure to have.  What I have written about those problems 
seems to fall on deaf ears, though out of the 30 or so private responses 
I have gotten on the subject, not more than 3 have been in favor.  I have 
said why I think the rec.railroad split is bad, and I stand by that.

Further, I did a survey on RAILROAD which does touch the question of 
misc. access.  Although I was not specifically asking about this issue, I 
did ask people with newsgroup access about the availability of misc. 
groups.  Of the first 100 answers to my survey, I am even more surprised 
to find out that FEWER people than I thought get misc. newsgroups!

So, even though it sounds like it belongs with those groups, I really 
would not at all want to be a part of something that is actually a 
negative impact on service.  I have been very careful to only make 
positive changes with my lists.

bit.listserv.railroad would be a positive change for RAILROAD because 
those people who want to read it as a newsgroup can do so without the 
extra clutter of traffic from other sources (in the case of rec.railroad).
As always, the option of directly receiving mail via the Listserv mode 
will stay.

This is a win-win situation for RAILROAD.

Lastly, perhaps in clarification, I would like the postings to be sent to 
RAILROAD from the newsgroup BEFORE they are sent to the group (RAILROAD 
should send them to the gateway/newsgroup), but failing that, a straight 
bi-directional gateway is the best.

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