----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Boalch" <n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk>
To: <faq-maintainers@rkive.landfield.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [faq-maintainers] A little advice please
> In message <5f.1699c003.285cb562@aol.com>
> SmrSnows@aol.com wrote:
> [snip]
> > And I found no FAQ either at the ng, nor at news.answers or alt.answers
> > going back to about November (it may be longer than that-that's only as
> > far as I searched)
>
> If you look for the name of the newsgroup at
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/
> it will tell you if there was ever a FAQ for that group, unless it's been
> removed from the archive at the request of the maintainer.
>
There is no archived FAQ.
>
> Is the use you are putting the newsgroup to the use it was intended for?
Look
> up its charter on ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/control/ and find out. If you've
> just picked up a dead NG and started using it for an inappropriate purpose
> (as defined by its charter), that's bad.
>
> If, on the other hand, the charter for the newsgroup allows the use you're
> making of it, there's nothing she can do to stop you posting [1]. Ignore
her.
>
Looking at the control archive: Neither party is using it for the intended
purpose:
Purpose:
alt.music.nin, rec.music.industrial, & alt.gothic have *way* too many
spooooooky postings. The creation of alt.spooky is to allow a forum for
spooky people to converse, and educate lurkers (appropriate term!) as to
the depth and measure of their spookiness. Carpe Noctem.
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/alt/alt.spooky.Z
Further research on Google Groups shows that the original idea failed and
became a spam trap which was later "hi-jacked" for porpose in the rival FAQ.
Eventually, it died off as well and was hi-jacked again by SmrSnows.
Basically, neither have a solid claim to this goth group and whoever gives
up their claim will be the loser.
Reference:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=faq&as_ugroup=alt.spooky&num=100&as_sco
ring=d
key thread: "Re: what is this group for anyway?"
> Cheers,
> Nick
> --
> There were spiders in the celler. Big spiders. A foolhardy clerk had gone
> into the celler five years ago, and all they ever found was the shoes.
> -- Tom Holt, "Flying Dutch"
>
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