Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!nrh From: nrh@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Proposal for net.religion.jewish - (nf) Message-ID: <856@inmet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 06:22:45 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.856 Posted: Thu Feb 9 06:22:45 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 06:42:34 EST Lines: 31 #R:utcsrgv:-321500:inmet:7000039:000:1636 inmet!nrh Feb 8 14:59:00 1984 This reauest for a newsgroup is amply documented -- how many other people went to the trouble of forming such a private mailing list? On the other hand, what's wrong with keeping it a mailing list? 35 people is not so many when there are 1300-odd sites on uucpnet. Perhaps a few weeks of discussion of these issues in net.misc or net.religion are in order, just to show the skeptics that it is desirable. Like Len Tower, I'm not impressed by the notion that N people want a newsgroup (N is small) and therefore it should be created. (remember net.wobegon?). Why should net.religion.jewish be exempt from this (to my mind quite reasonable) requirement that the discussion be significant enough in volume and content to warrant separation from other newsgroups? (Not that it would be the first exempt group, by any means). --> PINHEADS PLEASE NOTE: PINHEADS PLEASE NOTE: PINHEADS PLEASE NOTE: <-- I am opposed to merely creating this newsgroup by acclamation -- not on any sort of consideration of the merits of the IDEA of net.religion.jewish, merely on the basis of a particular idea of how newgroups should prove themselves worthy of existence. I think that if net.religion.jewish is as needed as people suggest, it will have no problem "paying its dues" by demonstrating its traffic in some existing newsgroup. If it can't, though, it shouldn't exist. Also I'd prefer a shorter name: I think that it would be unfortunate to put system administrators who prefer notes or A news or whatever in the position of seeming anti-Semitic, or, given the likelihood of other such groups forming, anti-religious in general.