From: jjf@dsbc.icl.co.uk (J.J.Farrell) Subject: Re: This mail list in a news group 19 Jan 1997 20:46:18 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701200224.27915.0.cygnus.gnu-win32@dsbc.icl.co.uk> Content-Type: text Original-To: cjjohans@cc.helsinki.fi (Carl J R Johansson) Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: from "Carl J R Johansson" at Jan 19, 97 11:33:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Length: 942 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > From gnu-win32-owner@cygnus.com Mon Jan 20 02:03:59 1997 > > I'm under the impression that there is some kind of voting > procedure before newsgroups are created (except the alt hierarchy), > they have to be submitted somewhere (news.groups?). I suppose > people who don't read this mailing list can vote too? Correct. I don't think there'd be that much trouble getting an appropriately-named group accepted, given the activity on this mailing list. > The other solution would maybe be to have them only on a local > server (that would at least guarantee that everyone can access > them) but of course who would pay for that? What do you mean by "a local server"? Local to whom? If you mean create the group on a single news server somewhere and use NNTP to access it, that would guarantee than many of us couldn't access it! Many people behind firewalls aren't allowed to have NNTP conversations over the big bad Net. Regards, jjf - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".