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In article <1992Sep11.183538.25389@stephsf.com> wengland@stephsf.com (Bill England) writes:
>    On the contrary, the users of the group are people who are 
>    important!  You can't just create a group because you feel
>    like without alienating your readers.  The fact that people

  Bill, what's the point of a local group?  I understand that high
circulation groups are better for selling things -- they already
exist in the form of misc.forsale, for instance.  Local groups are
MEANT TO BE LOCAL.  Of interest to local folks.  If remote people
(in aus, or wherever) want to carry our local groups, more power
to them -- but I don't think there's any value in trying to make
local decisions with non-local input.  If it turns out that
we need a group called seattle.snails.without.shells we should
create that group.  If people in austrailia really want to get
"local seattle flavor" or whatever, they can carry it.  But 
whether some guy in mcmurdo sound or chile agrees with the group or not
doesn't really enter the picture.  It isn't their call.  It's a LOCAL
group.  

  Really -- what's the purpose of a local heirarchy if not to 
serve the locals?