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- Newsgroups: alt.config
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!nic.umass.edu!news.amherst.edu!twpierce
- From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: The name "alt.m&k" contains an illegal character.
- Message-ID: <BxvJxr.2xs@unix.amherst.edu>
- Organization: Elitist Usenet Administrators, Stuff & Nonsense Division
- References: <1992Nov15.073958.5274@alf.uib.no> <1992Nov16.223543.20627@das.harvard.edu> <1992Nov17.160426.11592@alf.uib.no>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:10:38 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1992Nov17.160426.11592@alf.uib.no> magnus@ii.uib.no writes:
-
- >There now exists a
- >charter for the group, it *has* been discussed on alt.config - I admit
- >there were a few mistakes in the beginning,
-
- I'm not sure there was a mistake that you didn't make in this process.
-
- >but Tim did not at any
- >point try to help - he never suggested a correct name - he never told
- >me what I should do, he told me what I should have done.
-
- Eventually, there comes a time when there is no longer anything that
- you can do to correct a situation except to say, "I blew it. Maybe
- I'll wise up next time." Once you've tried twice and failed to create
- a group while ignoring the recommendations sent to you, I think
- frankly that my willingness to discuss it with you at *any* level is
- pretty considerate.
-
- What you should have done was to discuss this group on alt.config
- before you went newgroup-happy. You didn't. C'est la vie. The next
- time you get it into your mind to create a newsgroup, maybe you'll
- remember. If you don't, well, that's just your tough luck, now, isn't
- it?
-
- > Harry> Here's a voice in support of his efforts to change the
- > Harry> perception that alt is where any fool gets to mess with
- > Harry> other sites' configurations.
- >
- >I don't care about your configuration. All I want is for you to let
- >your users know that there is a group called a.m.a.k - if they don't
- >want to read it - no problem.
-
- If that's what you want me to do, then you're well-advised to be
- considerate about it.
-
- --
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