gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (09/14/87)
Brian did a good job of explaining how free speech works in the alt network. (You just speak.) Of course, if you create something that a site doesn't want to read, they won't necessarily receive it or pass it on. He did such a good job that the only reason I'm posting this is to clarify why I post occasional checkgroups messages: > He does that not for > the purpose of defining what is an "approved" group and what is an > "unapproved" group, but to gently encourage sites that are taking the alt > groups to consider taking the new ones. Actually, it's not that at all. I do it to update the /usr/lib/news/newsgroups file on alt sites, which lists the purpose of each newsgroup, and to let people know to locally create each alt newsgroup so that messages in them won't fall into "junk". -- {dasys1,ncoast,well,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@postgres.berkeley.edu