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In article <8BF6220.1BB4001FDB.uuout@westonia.com>,
DAVE FLEMING <dave.fleming@westonia.com> wrote:
>TN>perpetuating the dialogue about Naturality in the Nude...presented by you
>TN>and supported by many others as CAN.REC.NATURIST. is a must!!!
>TN>And anyone coming accross can.config are invited to speak out on this!
>TN>Peter
>
>Thanks for the kind words, but the party hasn't started yet. :)
>
>I am still waiting for some news administrator to assist with the
>creation process...otherwise we are just talking to ourselves.

Perhaps if you would cooperate with the community to the extent of
actually reading the can.* FAQ rather than demanding everyone give you
special treatment and yield to your intimidating tactics, you'd get
somewhere.  If you read the FAQ, you'd find out why you're having so
little luck so far.

I don't know why I'm bother trying to help you, you seem bound and
determined to make fools of yourselves insulting everyone by inferring
ulterior motives.  Getting Anne and Dawn annoyed at you (though it's
probable that Dawn didn't see your posting - you were responding to a
computer-generated posting...) is not a good idea.  But, I'll try one
last time:

Usenet is run, in the most part, by people volunteering their time and
resources.  Coming on like a rabid Amway salesman isn't going to do you
any good.  Ignoring the suggestions that have been made doesn't do
you any good.

You have to convince every administrator in Canada that their users are
going to be interested in your group.  Trying to turn administrators
into nudists or asking other impertinent personal questions are both
irrelevant and rude.  The only thing the administrators care about is
whether the group will be valuable to their users.

You have to convince every administrator in Canada to create your group.
No-one has the authority to create it everywhere.  Convincing each one
individually is obviously impractical, so you need to convince one or
more well-known admins that it is a good idea, so that when _they_ issue
the newgroup, other administrators will trust their judgement.

There are no hard and fast rules on how to prove interest, other than to
convince a few admins that there is enough interest by demonstrating
that interest in a way that proves the group will be used.  Ie:  people
who have access to can.* posting their expressions of interest in
can.config.

No, there are no hard and fast rules as to how many is enough.  You're
trying to convince administrators who may have differing criteria or
experience.  Simply finding the administrator with the lowest criteria
is not necessarily the answer either, because most of the rest of the
admins in Canada may well not pay any attention.  And there's lots of
history to demonstrate that.

I look for clear, obvious, and energetic support for a group.  I don't
give a damn what the content is (unless the subject matter is forbidden
by my company's policies - in which case I simply don't participate).
That usually means 30-40 or more posted responses spread over a week or
more, and a group proponent willing to keep pushing the proposal.  But
it's not an exact number.  If I see 40 messages from people who were
bullied into it, or were mislead, or were inordinately lobbied,
I'll ignore them because they don't represent the real situation.