From: Doug Lurie 
Subject: Re: Should we create comp.lang.basic.powerbasic?
 
Guy Macon wrote:
>
> I am a Powerbasic user and also one of the folks in the news.groups
> newsgroup who help people to get new newsgroups started.
>
> As you may have noticed, spam in alt.* newsgroups is increasing.
> What you may not know is that many sites which carry comp.* groups
> don't carry alt.* ones.  This is very common on corporate and
> education newsservers, and tends to limit many people who use
> powerbasic in science and engineering from reading this newsgroup.
>
> So I ask the question: is this the time to try to start a newsgroup
> called comp.lang.basic.powerbasic?  To get a comp.* newsgroup, we
> need around 120 people who will be willing to go to news.groups and
> fill out an email ballot voting for the news group.  Do we have taht
> many?  Does anyone have any objections to creating such a newsgroup?
 
I think that this is a good idea, provided "alt.lang.powerbasic" could
be killed off. Otherwise, there will be a lot of cross-posting, which
would dilute the effort.
 
Spam doesn't bother me too much, if it stays at its current level. How
would changing the name of the group stop spam?
 
In any case, good luck. I would vote for the change, but someone else
would have to do the work. ;-)
 
Best wishes, Doug.
 
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