"S'mee in WA" in ...
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> This whole subject is getting quite annoying. People keep taking
> Victor's requests for traffic projections (information that I still
> have not seen, in either the RFD or subsequent threads) as some sort
> of personal attack. Did no one read the aus.* admin FAQ about group
> creation??
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> http://aus.news-admin.org/Faq/aus_faq
>
> ...
> I just can't understand what is so wrong about expecting the Proponant
> to read and follow the aus.* FAQ for new group creation...

Good points, S'mee, thanks.

Partisan feelings about the particular proposal preoccupy some people right
now.

But I wonder how many who read this today, in a population that continues to
shift, grasp how much trouble newsgroups as a whole have had from careless,
passionate new-group creation. I believe that to fully see it, you need
have to've witnessed, as it happened, the ferments of new-group proposals
maybe 15 years ago. Group-creation standards, then as now, were annoying or
inconvenient to passionate proponents. They would ignore the burdens of
procedure; news admins were sometimes more careless about it then; some of
the proposals passed. You may not know this, but today's constellation of
"big 8" newsgroups was partly shaped that way, by people who are never seen
on them today, and likely never perceived themselves as transient or
impatient users.