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From: markz@ssc.com (Mark Zenier)
Subject: Re: What Happened to alt.cd-rom.reviews?
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 06:16:32 GMT
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Joanna Wolfe __ Oxford University Press (wolfe@rock.concert.net) wrote:
: This may seem to be a silly questions, but does anyone know what
: happened to alt.cd-rom.reviews? It was here
: yesterday...  (with quite a bit of activity...)
: Has a new newsgroup has taken it's place? 

[crossposted to alt.config]

No, it was deleted by a global RMGROUP message or two.

If you want to convince the news administrators that your alt.*
group isn't a spur of the moment joke, you HAVE to discuss it
in the alt.config newsgroup, where you have to convice a bunch 
of very hardcase news gurus.  

Then if your proposal hasn't been torn apart for having a bad
name (There a FAQ posting on that), or already duplicates the
content of an existing group that you missed out of the
several thousand worldwide groups, you wait a week or two and
the create it.

It will take a week or two to create an alt group.  But it 
takes a minimum of two months to create a mainstream group.

Just because it exists at your site doesn't mean that your
feed site or the one that feeds it thought the group was
worth creating.

I think that alt.cd-roms.reviews is a good idea, has an
acceptable name.   

Mark Zenier  markz@ssc.wa.com  markz@ssc.com  mzenier@eskimo.com