Aunc.1627 net.news utzoo!decvax!duke!tucc!unc!wm Sun Dec 27 20:37:43 1981 USENET policy I find it hard to believe that Mark is proposing a committee to approve of new news groups. Up to that point, his proposal sounds fine. How about just establishing rules for new groups: 1- Send a request for interested parties to net.general. 2- Interested parties reply to the sender. 3- If there is enough interest, replies are collected and sent out as the first transmission of the new group. This system seems simple and self policing. If there is enough interest for a group to be started, then it is no committee's business to say it shouldn't exist. I even get the feeling that if there was a committee, it would really end up being a rubber stamp, since who has the time to do the work necessary to come to a rational decision about a group? Or if the committee does turn a group down, the meta- discussion generated would certainly be worse that any group I could think of. If someone violates the rules, I'm sure that they could be jumped on and their (illegal) new group disallowed by the local administrators. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.