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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!sybus.sybus.com!myrddin!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Subject: Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup Message-ID: <2AB74A59.6F1C@tct.com> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 14:53:13 GMT References: <1992Sep8.140141.10371@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL Keywords: newsgroup 386bsd news group Lines: 14 According to pauls@umich.edu: >2. Do people think it might be appropriate to do a single mass-mailing to >all people who have expressed interest in a new newsgroup when we are >ready to go for a vote (ie, to draw them back to the group if they happen >to be reading infrequently)? I'd say no. Such a mailing quite against the spirit of the guidelines, which basically say that you announce the vote in news.announce.newgroups (cross-posting appropriately), and whoever sees the announcement, votes. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com> "Do Rush place weird subliminal backmasked messages in their songs to compel unwilling geeks to commit evil .sig atrocities?" -- Dean Engelhardt