Aunc.1627
net.news
utzoo!decvax!duke!tucc!unc!wm
Sun Dec 27 20:37:43 1981
USENET policy
I find it hard to believe that Mark is proposing a committee
to approve of new news groups. Up to that point, his proposal
sounds fine. How about just establishing rules for new groups:
1- Send a request for interested parties to net.general.
2- Interested parties reply to the sender.
3- If there is enough interest, replies are collected and
sent out as the first transmission of the new group.
This system seems simple and self policing. If there is
enough interest for a group to be started, then it is no
committee's business to say it shouldn't exist. I even get
the feeling that if there was a committee, it would really
end up being a rubber stamp, since who has the time to do
the work necessary to come to a rational decision about a
group? Or if the committee does turn a group down, the meta-
discussion generated would certainly be worse that any group
I could think of. If someone violates the rules, I'm sure
that they could be jumped on and their (illegal) new group
disallowed by the local administrators.
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