woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) (08/12/89)
The original charter of this group was that only calls for discussion, calls for votes, and results of votes would be posted here. There was never anything that said annoncements of groups created outside the voting process would be posted here. Eliot Lear has made an official request to have this changed. A couple of other people have also suggested that such announcements in this group might be a useful service. So, consider this a semi-formal call for "votes"; do you want to see announcements of groups created in non-mainstream heirarchies posted in this group? Bear in mind that this is an all-or-nothing option here; either I am going to limit it to mainstream groups falling under the newsgroup creation guidelines, or I'm going to open it up to all alternate heirarchies. This means not only things like alt, gnu, and unix-pc, but also even subscriber-service networks such as ClariNet. In other words, anything that is passed around using the netnews transfer mechanism. I don't want to get in the business of judging some heirarchies as "worthy" and others as "not worthy". Send your opinion to me. This is not a formal vote like in the guidelines; when the responses die down I'll make a decision and let everyone know. --Greg