Re: meta description of newsgroups?

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:03:33 -0700, Brian Mailman wrote:

Russ Allbery wrote:

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Brian Mailman writes:

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Sheila King wrote:

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Here's one I came across recently, that looks promising: http://tgos.org/newbie/

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Before you start pointing people there, please subscribe to alt.config and read all that "The Guardian of Sailor Moon" (tgos) has to say about newsgroup creation.

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The content in the above pages isn't too bad, though, although I could nit-pick some of the technical details.

No, it isn't, and there's plenty I agree with him about. There's also a lot of things I don't. It seems the details you'd nitpick some find to be major--and not being a sysadmin, (I only lurk in nanap) I can't tell who's right. I believe that listing both categories might be offtopic for this list and I was attempting to make a neutral statement so that Sheila King could ascertain for herself the provenance of the advice.

B/

I've never decided whether TGOS is a kook with spells of rationality or a sane guy who goes crazy on certain topics. In any case he's not in my killfile yet, although I've been sorely tempted of late. :) In a nutshell, he keeps telling proponents they don't need a charter for a newsgroup knowing full well there are users coming to alt.config to say their ISP won't carry a group because there is no charter. His FAQ... ignore justification, traffic measurements, charters.... conflicts with all the other FAQs on group creation. BarB