From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) Subject: Re: A proposal for organizing comp.os.linux. [NEW-CHANNELS] Date: 17 Dec 1992 03:46:14 GMT
Welcome back to the bitching-about-the-split-that-failed saga!
emf@freedom.nmsu.edu writes:
>It DID PASS, people... just not by a wide enough margin to satisfy
>some ignorant administrative slob who doesn't even read the bloody
>group anyway.
I guess you're referring to the moderator of news.announce.newgroups,
David Lawrence. He doesn't make the rules. The rule (strictly
speaking it is a guideline that is followed more rigorously than most
laws in the world) is not his invention, he just follows it (if he
didn't, he'd be kicked out of moderatorship). That rule/guideline is
there because the people who get to decide want it there. Those
people are not the Usenetters in general, but the administrators of
Usenet systems.
> I think the split should go thru.
In this particular case, it really doesn't matter what you think.
>IMHO, anyone who cross-posts an announcement to both c.o.l and c.o.l.a
>is an idiot.
You're entitled to your opinion. I'm entitled to my opinion about
people who don't know how Usenet works and flame when things go how
they want. (I'm not telling you what my opinion is, 'cause this isn't
alt.flame.)
>and just because it will irritate someone, here's how I think this
>silly overpopulated group should be split...
Come back in about six months (or is it five already?), do a new
RFD/CFV, and then perhaps it will be split.
[ Followups to news.groups, the correct place to flame about newsgroup
creation, desctruction, renaming, splitting, etc. ]