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In article <ETHANB.92Sep7162248@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu>, ethanb@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu (Ethan Bradford) writes:
>    How about the following:
>     * seattle.admin          Administravia
>       seattle.events         Announcements, notices etc.
>       seattle.forsale        Items for sale in the area
>     * seattle.general        Catchall - general postings
>       seattle.politics       Political discussions
>       seattle.talk           BBS style chat through a newsgroup
>     * seattle.test           Testing with a few scattered auto-reply sites.  
> 
> I am very strongly in favor of adding these new groups.

I am not strongly pro or con on this; the naming of all these groups seems
to be clear enough to avoid the confusion factor.

As far as the costs to other sites (outside of Seattle) carrying
seattle.general, I don't understand what the big fuss is.  The news
software can be configured to accept or reject any group, and any site
that is carrying the seattle.* hierarchy is presumably doing so
willingly and because someone there is interested in reading it.  If
they don't want to pay for news they aren't interested in, they should
stop subscribing to the seattle.* groups.

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David Barts  N5JRN                      UW Civil Engineering, FX-10
davidb@ce.washington.edu                Seattle, WA  98195