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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 10:19:48 MST
- From: gritton@alaska.et.byu.edu (Jamie Gritton)
- Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
- Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,us.groups
- Subject: Re: the us. hierarchy
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- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) writes:
-
- > where *is* the us. hierarchy?
-
- Very few places, but it does exist. For a feed close to you (at least
- close in my Western way of thinking), you may want to talk to Jurgen
- Botz (jbotz@orixa.mtholyoke.edu). (Hope he didn't mind the reference).
- There's somewhat over 100 sites carrying it.
-
- > I read the
- > listings of alternative and mainstream newsgroups Gene Spafford puts out,
- > no listings of any us. groups there.
-
- No. Evidently Gene is among the crowd that thinks either it
- shouldn't exist at all or should only exist after being voted on
- (which has never been the case with regional hierarchies). With David
- Lawrence supporting the same view, us.* has a hard time being heard of
- at all.
-
- > Where do I get info on these groups? What us.
- > groups are out there?
-
- Ah, there's the rub. Currently, there's almost nothing: admin stuff
- (us.groups etc) and some duplicates of main hierarchy groups (i.e.
- us.forsale.misc) made in a failed attempt to drum up interest in the
- hierarchy. There've been a couple of "almost" groups, but the
- proponents decided in the end to go with alt instead (thus passing
- they're US-specific stuff all over the world - what we're trying to
- avoid). Catch 22: people don't want to carry us.* until it has a
- decent number of interesting groups. People don't want to create
- groups there unless they'll have a decent number of readers.
- After all my optimism about creating the hierarchy without a formal
- vote, I plan to buckle under and go the formal news.announce.newgroups
- RFD/CFV way with it. I need to get together with David Lawrence on
- this; look for an RFD in perhaps January.
- --
- James Gritton - gritton@byu.edu - I disclaim
-