Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.pub.dragons-inn,alt.dragons-inn From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey) Subject: Re: ADMIN!!! Alt.dragons-inn and alt.pub.dragons-inn... Message-ID: <1992Nov12.154512.13447@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:45:12 GMT Tim Pierce (twpierce@unix.amherst.edu) wrote: : In article alaric@sti.com (Phil Stracchino) writes: : : >Sites which alias alt.dragons-inn to : >alt.pub.dragons-inn are: : > : >(b) making it impossible for readers downstream of them to receive : > alt.dragons-inn; : >(c) making it very difficult for posters in alt.dragons-inn to know : > where their posts are going to end up, or whether other readers : > of alt.dragons-inn will ever see them. : : That's as it should be. alt.dragons-inn is a bogus group. Not at all sites, it's not. So perhaps it should be created at those sites for which it is bogus? Despite being originally a miscreation of alt.pub., it has now acquired its own inhabitants, who don't want to join with alt.pub. and are annoyed that they are considered the same at many sites. : >If you are the newsadmin at a site which has alt.dragons-inn aliased : >to alt.pub.dragons-inn, PLEASE un-alias it, for the welfare of both : >groups. : : All right. I like 'x' better anyhow. Your decision...remove it if you wish, create it if you wish, but aliasing is causing problems. -- ---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist) "It's not my fault. The orchestra has disappeared." ---Hector Berlioz Current Album--Glass Tiger:The Thin Red Line Current Read--Jack McDevitt:The Hercules Text