Can someone explain to me if the duplication of newsgroups is allowed?
It appears that someone has proposed a new unmoderated newsgroup in the
new "us.*" hierarchy that essentially will duplicate the newsgroup I now
hold FAQ on in the "rec" hierarchy.
The impetus for this seems to be escapism from spam, off topic postings,
diametrically opposed points of view (that often leads to flaming, etc).
In otherwords, Usenet norms.
It also appears that there was no rule that said they had to consider
posting an RFD to my newsgroup even though we'd be most effected by this.
There is also no system of voting procedure as far as I can see - or so
they tell me in us.config. Essentially of there is no outpouring of
opposition, the group will be formed based on the proposal alone.
However, if no one knows about it in the newsgroup I FAQ-file for, how
can there be?
Have I missed some logic here?
And of course there would be a new FAQ file and FAQ author to boot (group
proponent). And I can easily guess that it will lead to a lot of cross
posting because it will essentially be a duplication of what exists now.
Personally I think this is delusional as no unmoderated newsgroup is
totally free of spam and its only a matter of time before a new hierarchy
is hit.
So where am I wrong. Please advise. I openly confess my ignorance of
this procedure.
Thanks.
Dennis Kirkpatrick
<nat@tiac.net>
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