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Someone (I am not mentioning names or quoting because of the
crossposting to xtropy-l as that would be against list rules)
suggested the creation of an extropians newsgroup in the alt
hierarchy.

I know something about this, having created alt.society.anarchy
several months ago. Anyone can newgroup an alt group, but there
are guidelines that you should follow if you want your request
to be honored.  Look in alt.config for these guidelines, which
are posted frequently.

There are problems with getting sites to carry new alt groups,
which means some people have a hard time reading them.  Some
sites automatically create newsgroups when they receive a
newgroup article. Most don't. If you want to read a specific
alt group at your site chances are you'll have to beg your
newsadmin.

I would not recommend creating alt.extropians at this time.
There is already an extropians newsgroup, bit.listserv.xtropy-l
(also available as a mailing list), which does not get much
traffic. Unfortunately bit.* groups also do not get picked up
by many sites, and usually not the same ones that will
automatically create alt groups.

The only way I would recommend creating alt.extropians at this
time is if it could be gatewayed with xtropy-l so the maximum
number of people could read it as a newsgroup. I'm afraid I
have no idea how to do that...

Btw, I'm also afraid (no, glad actually) that (name deleted) is
right (as he usually is) about the nature of mailing lists and
this list. Benign neglect is best.
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Mike Linksvayer   m-linksvayer@uiuc.edu   +1 217 344 1326