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"Gordon Dewis" (gordon@pinetree.org) writes:
> However, this thread it about a proposal for ott.issues.high-tech.  

There has been precious little discussion of this proposed new group. 

So far there was one post from a non-ONAG member with useful 
suggestions. I agreed with those suggestions and incorporated 
them into the proposed charter.

> I have
> concerns that the group will quickly become filled with job posts 

Are you? So how come you are not equally concerned about the 
non-job-ad, non-charter-compliant discussion currently taking 
place at ott.jobs?

> There have been newsgroups created in ott.* that ended up basically not
> being used, except by spammers.  An example is the former
> ott.community.lets.  It is in no one's interest to create groups that are
> going to die very quickly.  

Then there are also groups such as ott.politics that have no 
spam and just about no discussion at all. Does this serve us better?

> This is why support is looked for and why it
> seems that some groups are created quickly and others take a long time.

It appears to me that you are not looking for support at all. 
You have already made up your mind and are looking for excuses.

> Yes, there was a reluctantance to create ott.rec.snowmobiling when it was
> first proposed.  At the time, it did not appear that there was a demand for
> the group.  A search of Dejanews at the time on the words "Ottawa" and
> "snowmobile" found that almost all of the 25 or so hits were for people
> selling snowmobiles in ott.forsale.other.

So what changed and why was the group finally created?

BTW a google group search on the words "ottawa" and "hi" and 
"tech" came up with  11,100 threads. Do you think this proves 
enough interest?
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