tale@rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (06/18/91)
The rec.sport.basketball reorganization is creaking a little at the
seams. Unfortunately, aliasing by sites which rewrite Newsgroups:
lines for aliased groups is causing the rec.sport.basketball.misc
group to be innundated with articles from the original
rec.sport.basketball. Of course, this was what was expect to happen
(fancy that!).
The problem is that the vast majority of these articles are on the
topic of professional basketball, and attempts to redirect those
posters to the rec.sport.basketball.pro group have proven to be largely
unsuccessful. The people who want to use the .misc group in accord
with its charter are apparently quite frustrated.
The proponent of the reorganization has requested that the aliasing be
changed to point rec.sport.basketball to rec.sport.basketball.pro, and
from what I can ascertain this seems very reasonable. If you would
take a few moments to switch the alias at your site, it would be very
appreciated by the basketball fans of USENET.
Moral of the story: it is not always the most reasonable course of
action to plan that the natural progression in a reorganization of a
broadly based existing group is to make it the new .misc group.
Moral number two: Network news could probably use a few more control
commands.
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