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Old October 22nd 03, 07:48 AM
Ace
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Default RFD: create unmoderated newsgroup uk.rec.skiing

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:38:12 +0000 (UTC), (Brian
{Hamilton Kelly}) wrote:

In article
"Ace" writes:

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:54:13 +0100, "Wm..."
wrote:


Because we like things to be discussed openly and the proponent
(sensibly) included "your" (note the inverted commas) group in the
crosspost.


It was kinda sneaky to snip all other x-posted groups from the
follow-up, though...


That is the standard practice with the uk.* hierarchy. The announcement
of the RFD is made in the moderated uk.net.news.announce newsgroup[1] and
cross-posted to uk.net.news.config AND any other relevant group(s). The
rules of the hierarchy state that all discussion is supposed to take
place in unnc, which is why Followup-To is set there.

It always used to be the case that this setting was explicitly mentioned
in the RFD; are you claiming that this was omitted?


Nope, but you must surely be aware that many netizens aren't savvy
enough to work around it. More importantly, regardless of what you
people who feel you 'own' the UK. heirarchy think, discussions about a
new uk. skiing newsgroup should, IMO, be held on the pre-existing
group you seem determined to sublimate.


Whatever, perhaps it's not worth arguing about. Eben if the new group
goes ahead it's unlikely to succeeed in the long term, as the main
potential posters all have a 'home' already.

(Mark you, although nowadays I am a regular reader of unnc, in the past I
certainly didn't want to waste my then costly bandwidth on taking that
group, and I was decidedly put out[2] when discussion of an enforced
chartering of uk.telecom was seemingly being hidden away in unnc.


So you agree that it was a poor practise but still support it now?

[1] The volume of traffic in unna is such that _everyone_ who reads any
uk.* newsgroups and/or is based in the UK has no excuse for failing to
read the group.


Rubbish. Absolute codswhallop. Why should I, a non-UK resident, take
an interest in the petty bickerings of people who seem to only be
interested in creating new groups for the sake of it?


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