🚀 go-pugleaf

IMHO, USENET clutter is something we could do without -- it's not an 
issue of people in other cities just starting their own groups if tey 
didn't care what happens in Alexandria, it is a matter of how news is 
distributed.  We do not need another top-level group (especially one that 
could be as confusing as 'alexandria.*' -- I also don't see much help 
from going to va.alexandria.* it would be picked up by everyone who 
wanted to get the va.* groups.

If there is really a need for an Alexandria group (though I do think that 
a list would serve the purpose well, better than a newsgroup) then I 
think that the proposal of the moment should be to start a 'va.local.*' 
tree... this would provide an easy way to add whatever communities wanted 
to be added, and would also provide a "not too difficult" way for ISP's 
to filter out communites they didn't want.  This is of course not to say 
that ISP's would do it, but the ability would be fairly easy to use.

If the creation of "va.local.*" was accepted then the proposal to create 
a "va.local.alexandria.*" could be undertaken.

As the "proposal" stands I would vote against the current "proposals"

Ron