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- From: graaff@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (Hans de Graaff)
- Subject: Re: alt reorg
- Message-ID: <C1DCHp.5qE@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl>
- Organization: Delft University of Technology
- References: <9301230551.AA23727@gw.home.vix.com> <1js1vkINNhr0@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <VIXIE.93Jan24010432@cognition.pa.dec.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:27:25 GMT
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- In article <VIXIE.93Jan24010432@cognition.pa.dec.com> vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
- >[Richard H. Miller]
- >> You cannot succeed in completely removing an alt group. There will be
- >> enough 'becker' types to guarantee that the old groups will never be
- >> removed.
- >I'm sorry, I've been out of alt.config for a while. Who is "becker" ?
- Somebody who doesn't like any alt-group to disappear, regardless.
- Never noticed the fake newgroups for alt.graphics? Becker's in the
- path somewhere.
-
- >Would TMC be willing to configure its news transport to unconditionally
- >accept control messages in "alt.*" from tale@uunet.uu.net? You're probably
- >right that noone can kill old alt groups, but would could get a band of us
- >together who all trust a central authority and at least keep the cruft out
- >of the bigger news servers. My active file has 6,510 lines in it, and I'm
- >feeling pressed by my kernel to make each "active" line worthwhile.
-
- Doesn't that defy the whole purpose of alt, it being an uncontrolled
- hierarchy? If you want a controlled hierarchy you should either look
- for the big seven, or create a new hierarchy like alt-controlled,
- which is a contradiction in terms.
-
- I guess that alt will always be the mess that it is. Cope and manage
- your active file, or drop alt alltogether.
-
- Hans
-
- --
- Hans de Graaff | I want someone to follow,
- J.J.deGraaff@IS.TWI.TUDelft.NL | who doesn't lead the way
- Department of Informatics | I want someone to listen,
- Delft University of Technology | who won't repeat what I say
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