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In article <4il8t6$rkq@solaris.cc.vt.edu>,
Ron Jarrell <jarrell@solaris.cc.vt.edu> wrote:
>Oh?  Fascinating definition of majority you have there... a half dozen
>requests over the course of a year hardly counts as a majority!

I don't think I can agree with where you seem to be heading on this.

Much local news in Charlottesville (where there are only two local
groups: chv.general and chv.test) is bottled up inside UVa. UVa has
probably over 100 newsgroups in uva.*, but refuses to allow any of 
them outside the campus feeds.

Most of the ISPs in Charlottesville have a dozen or so local
newsgroups. The users on the ISPs, and at least some of the
ISPs themselves, want more local news coverage. But UVa doesn't.

I've talked about relaxing coverage with uva.*, or moving some
of uva.* into chv.* with Gina at least two or three times over 
the last 5 years and she just "doesn't see the need". This 
certainly isn't lambasting Gina; I think she does a good job. 
But just because a conversation hasn't taken place in va.* doesn't 
mean it hasn't taken place.

I see a striking similarity here.

I've created va.config and va.forsale on Comdial's server, and
didn't honor the rmgroup's sent out. I've also created them
on my home system (adastra.cvl.va.us) and the other three UUCP
systems I feed. We are propagating them.

UVa and VT don't have to carry the groups; and that will certainly
leave a huge hole in the propagation in Virginia. It's unfortunate.