sdb@shark.UUCP (Steven Den Beste) (09/14/83)
Well, I am not the system news administrator at this site, but I tried to use a back-door method to create net.micro.6809. It succeeded for our machines here (i.e. "shark", "tekecs") but apparently did not succeed for anyone else. (That's what I get for cheating.) I think that if the commodore phreaks and the CP/M freaks can have their own group, that we should have one too. Would someone in a position of authority please create "net.micro.6809" for the rest of the net? I at least will be posting a great deal to it as soon as OS-9 becomes available and I buy my copy (in a couple of weeks). I can also post reviews of COCO programs I have bought. Danke! Steve Den Beste Tektronix
alb@alice.UUCP (09/16/83)
It's a good thing that back door methods don't always work (or that most people don't know how to use them). If you knew what you were doing, you would ask first to see if there is enough interest. It should be plain from the lack of use of all the little net.micro subgroups that it was a mistake to start creating them for every little PC.
dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer) (09/16/83)
It certainly seemed that there was enough interest to me! There were several affirmative postings to the net. (And let this count as another one!) One upshot of this is, though. that I don't have the first idea HOW a news group gets 'officially' formed. Where's the locus of responsibility? Everybody's posting items like: "Yes, I fully support the idea of newsgroup X", but nothing gets done about it, either affirmatively or negatively. (I think I was snoozing when 'net.women.only' was born full grown from the head of Athena, so I can't use that group as an example.) Soooo.... 1.) What is the status of net.micro.6809 2.) How do newsgroups become officially sanctioned? Thanks, Steve Dyer decvax!wivax!dyer sdyer@bbn-unix
puder@burdvax.UUCP (09/17/83)
Another point about this particular group name is that it has an all-numeric
component, which may cause a problem at some news 2.10 sites. If net.micro
article number 6809 already exists, the newsgroup will not be created. If
there turns out to be enough interest to create this group, please call it
net.micro.m6809 or somesuch.
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Karl Puder {sdcrdcf,presby,psuvax}!burdvax!puder (215)648-7555wls@astrovax.UUCP (09/18/83)
I think the choice of purely numeric names for subgroups, like net.micro.6809
(and net.micro.432) is unfortunate. For sites running news 2.10 or 2.10.1
that have separate subdirectories for subgroups, what happens to the next
article in net.micro when the article count reaches 6808 ?
--- William L. Sebok {allegra,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,kpno}!astrovax!wlsmark@cbosgd.UUCP (09/19/83)
I've created net.micro.6809. There haven't already been 6809 articles - we're only up to about 3000 and we've been on since the beginning. So nobody will already have one. 2.10 takes such things into account. If it gets up to article 6809 and it can't create it because there's already a directory with that name, it will just skip to 6810.
sysman@glasgow.UUCP (System Manager) (10/14/83)
Yes for net.micro.6809
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