From: pb@excelsior.xs4all.nl.REMOVE-THIS (Marc van den Dikkenberg)
Subject: Re: Should We Create Comp
 
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 18:59:04 +0100, Reinier Zwitserloot
 wrote:
 
>The overall censorship of alt.* groups by lots of proxys (read:
>corporate/school ISPs) is just stupid, because nearly all alt.* groups
>are just fine. However, it's unlikely to change soon and since I for
>some reason my ISP didn't carry alt.lang.powerbasic up till now you got
>a new vote :-).
 
Since pretty much everyone can 'create' an alt. group all by himself within
a few minutes, a lot of providers don't automatically generate all 'new'
alt.* groups. Since the other hierarchies are way more democratic by
comparison, virtually all news admins add these without questioning...
 
Resulting is a much larger (potential) user base.
 
>My suggestion would be to shut down alt.lang.powerbasic after
>comp.lang.powerbasic is created. Reading both alt.lang.asm and
>comp.lang.asm.x86 is really annoying; many people cross-post. The comp
>groups eventually get more traffic if you allow folks to move, which is
>best done by just shutting down the ability to post messages, and only
>leave a message instructing people to move over (is this possible?).
 
This is not feasible in an alt.* group which is 'officially' unmoderated,
I think.
 
The only reason alt.lang.powerbasic was chosen over comp.* by its creator,
Peter Cooper, was that at the time it seemed unrealistic to get enough
votes for a comp. newsgroup. Now, however, this doesn't seem to be as
far-fetched as it looked at the time.
 
Closing down alt.lang.powerbasic will be easier then creating a comp.
newsgroup... Anyway, I'm quite confident that we'll get enough votes to
create this one. That's probably the first priority. :->
 
>I'd much rather have a ng than the web-based system, since you can
>pre-download these and read/respond offline, which is great for us
>pay-per-minute folks in europe.
 
you can say that again! ;-)
 
The Web BBS is a great service, but unfortunately they telephone company
loves it even more. :->
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Marc van den Dikkenberg
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