RFD: create unmoderated newsgroup uk.rec.skiing

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:18:38 +0000, Dave J wrote:

In inside of
uk.net.news.config, 'Don Aitken' wrote:

Exactly how is it "pettiness" if I vote no for an inadmissible reason
to cancel out the effect of {R} doing the same, but not "pettiness"
for him to do so in the first place?

Because, in general terms, the only sensible reason to vote 'no' is
because you feel the group will damage the uk.* hierarchy.

That's patently nonsense. There's a very good reason to vote 'no' if
you think it's going to affect you in any way. Which it must be quite
obvious to you is the case with most of the rsre posters joinging in
here. And why the RFD was x-posted there.

Surely, in general terms, the only sensible reason to vote 'yes' is if
you feel that you, personally, will benefit from the existence of the
new group. It seems to me that nearly all of the unnc posters in this
thread quite obviously don't fall into this category and so should be
banned from voting.

In these days of crossposting there will be enough traffic 'between'
the two groups for the users to establish for themselves which is the
most appropriate.

But what's the point in doing it in the first place? Do you seriously
believe there is some vast untapped posting pool who only ever look at
ngs on the uk.* heirarchy?

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