Article View: news.admin
Article #45Re: Proposal: New Newsgroup Heirarchy
From: earthbound misfit, I
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 06:44
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 06:44
33 lines
1710 bytes
1710 bytes
lisbon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gerry Swetsky) writes: > taz%momad@infoserv.com writes: > > >I would like to propose a new heirarchy: > > Oh no, not again. > > >The groups within this heirarchy would last througout the lifetime of > >the topic itself, and then would be cancelled. > > Then Bruce Becker would newgroup them again. Isn't this fun? > > >Of course, there would > >have to be new guidelines for proposing a new topic within this heirarchy, > >as a long voting period would defeat the purpose of 'timely' topical > >newsgroups. > > And what good are guidelines when you have jerks that have no > respect for the net? That's not quite correct. Bruce, deranged as he is, actually believes he's doing things correctly according to the "guidelines" of alt. The proposal here for a new bottom-level heirarchy would have a completely different set of guidelines. It's possible that not enough people will support such a heirarchy for it to succeed, but that's an entirely different issue. - k -- Craig Harding kilroy@acme.gen.nz ACME BBS +64 6 3551342 "Jub'er lbh pnyyvat n obmb?"
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<1992Oct30.064431.16149@acme.gen.nz>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!cc-server4.massey.ac.nz!acmebbs!kilroyReferences:
<LIa7qAJNBh107h@momad.UUCP> <1992Oct29.022926.2422@vpnet.chi.il.us>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,news.newgroups,alt.config Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!cc-server4.massey.ac.nz!acmebbs!kilroy From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) Subject: Re: Proposal: New Newsgroup Heirarchy Message-ID: <1992Oct30.064431.16149@acme.gen.nz> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 92 06:44:31 GMT Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand References: <LIa7qAJNBh107h@momad.UUCP> <1992Oct29.022926.2422@vpnet.chi.il.us> Keywords: newsgroup heirarchy topical timely new Lines: 33