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Re: RFD: rec.arts.movies.erotica moderated



Evan Leibovitch ([email protected]) wrote:
: In article <[email protected]>, Orc <[email protected]> wrote:

: >In article <[email protected]>,
: >	Evan Leibovitch <[email protected]> wrote:

: >>Also: It is bad Usenet practise to have a name that is both a newsgroup
: >>and a base for a hierarchy -- this is indeed a royal pain for
: >>administrators. You cannot have *both* rec.arts.erotica and
: >>rec.arts.erotica.movies;

: >Don't be silly; of _course_ you can have both rec.arts.erotica
: >and rec.arts.erotica.movies.

: Sigh. Technically you can, prectically you can't. See below.

: >Some people like .misc'ing the main
: >group when subgroups are formed, and some people don't, but the
: >transport software doesn't give a fuck whether a group has subgroups
: >or not.  And the royal pain for _this_ administrator is renaming
: >groups whenever someone inplements one of these 'required' renamings
: >to satisfy the clique that must have .misc on every name.

: Well, there it is. This 'clique' happens to include the moderators of
: news.announce.newgroups, without whose approval RFDs and CFVs don't get
: anywhere. I ran into this problem, very specifically, on a proposal I
: made about a year ago; it wasn't accepted as an RFD until I misc'd the
: existing group when turning a group name into a hierarchy. A proposal
: to create rec.arts.erotica.movies without changing the base group would
: *never* have made it as far as RFD stage...

Make sure the proponents advise a NO vote on the misc group in regular
discussion on the base group.

: Wanna take on tale and company? Go ahead. To me, the principles involved
: in fighting them on this issue just ain't worth it.

To some of us they are.Vote against every misc renaming in sight!!


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