Ian Spare wrote:

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:11:30 +0100, Paul Giverin
wrote:

In message , Ian Spare
writes

If you had any interest at all you'd be familiar enough with RSRE to
know that there's only one or two non-English posting per year since
the groups foundation. Since you clearly don't read it then it rather
begs the question how you've reached the conclusion the UK needs its
own group.

I don't think it begs the question at all. The uk.* hierarchy is
independent of any other Usenet hierarchy.

What's the plan then, replicate every newsgroup in the rec hierarchy
to the UK?

No, the 'plan' is to run a well managed hierarchy, allowing the users of
that hierarchy to create groups if they meet the requirements. The
requirements do not specify if the existence of groups in other
hierarchies should or should not play any role in their creation in the
uk.* hierarchy. If you wish there to be a requirement, then you can
easily follow the established process and RFD for it, that would allow
you to measure the support for your requirement. Also, you could just
vote no every time it's the case and see if that has any effect.

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