grv@saturn.UUCP (Jerry VandenHeuvel) (09/26/86)
When the newsgroup reorganization was announced, it seemed to me to be a fairly good idea. Breaking down the discussions by topics from the top down is reasonable. Unfortunately the implementation of the plan seems to be going sour. This is not intended as a flame against anyone or any site, but who is responsible for sending out the newgroup control messages? Since the first couple of newgroup messages from Mark Horton to create several talk groups, about fifteen or so subgroups in the new talk and soc groups have had traffic without group creation. My site is three systems removed from a backbone (uw-beaver) and there hasn't been significant downtime in the past three weeks, so I'm wondering what or where the problem is. Is this only local to the Pacific Northwest, or have some sites jumped the gun and created the new groups on their own? -- Jerry Vanden Heuvel Voice: (206) 237-5080 Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. UUCP: ..!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!saturn!grv
mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) (10/02/86)
The talk and soc groups has been created so far. If you didn't get the newgroups, somebody upstream from you didn't forward them. If you're seeing traffic on those groups, they probably started forwarding them since. It wouldn't hurt to have your local SA do a local inews -C on those groups to get them created in your area. Here are the groups that have been created so far: soc.college soc.culture.african soc.culture.celtic soc.culture.greek soc.culture.indian soc.culture.jewish soc.culture.misc soc.misc soc.motss soc.net-people soc.roots soc.singles soc.women talk.abortion talk.bizarre talk.origins talk.philosophy.misc talk.politics.misc talk.politics.theory talk.religion.misc talk.rumors Mark Horton