From: Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:06:35 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks-unedited@toad.com
Subject: Re: alt.cypherpunks
In-Reply-To: <m0vuw3H-000JGWC@cognac.apana.org.au>
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John Pearson <john@cognac.apana.org.au> writes:
> In this case, the people you have to convince are the news admins who must
> permit your control message to be honoured; time was most sites ran on
> autopilot, but joke and badly-named groups mean that most news admins
> now drop most newgroup messages on the floor.  These people hang out in
> alt.config, and you should propose the group's creation there, followed
> by a couple of weeks of discussion, hopefully featuring many more 
> supportive messages than non-supportive ones.  After that, a newgroup 
> message stands a much better chance.

alt.cypherpunks has been newgroup'ed, and I belive rm'grouped. Smart,
consiencous newsadmins probably did not honor the rmgroup, as
alt.cypherpunks should be acceptable, but most newsadmins are too
overworked to actually look at most of the crap that comes through.
For example, it hasn't received any messages on my news server,
probably because the one upstream removed it. 

Therefore, it would be a Good Thing to continue any discussion on
alt.config, and convince any cabal'ers who rmgroup it to re-new it.
Sending out boosters every couple of weeks wouldn't hurt, either. 

alt.cypherpunks'less,
Jer

"standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew
 why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole

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