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Subject:	Re: How do we ask for a new newsgroup to be set up?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk
Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:11:51 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G39Hrp.2Au@lugnet.com... > In lugnet.admin.general, Simon Denscombe writes: > > so people will always mis-post here because the market newsgroup will be > > buried > > It's pretty easy to set up cross-reference links on the entry pages to the > groups. > > > I don't see why we can't have it in the loc.uk hierachy > > Name components in the .loc hierarchy are abbreviations for localities, • for > example, .loc.us.ma.bos stands for United States, Massachusetts, Boston, • and > .loc.uk.sc stands for United Kingdom, Scotland. A name like • .loc.uk.market > doesn't make sense because market isn't a location in the UK. > > --Todd Todd, I asked how we ask for this newsgroup originally. I am not hung up on what we call it. I would just like a separate group for UK folk to buy-sell-trade. There seemed to be interest from others. My reasoning was that folks dont seem to like their newgroup getting clogged up with buy-sell-trade-auction type stuff. And the current lugnet.market ones were too US centric - meaning you got lost in the noise. So whether its under the market or loc hierarchy I dont care. Personally I dont care either if we just had buy-sell-trade-auction posts in lugnet.loc.uk, but I guess others would. regards lawrence

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		Re: How do we ask for a new newsgroup to be set up?
(...) It seems to me that if you want to put it in buy-sell-trade start the post with "UK only" (or the title) and then you can see it in the brief lists or do a search in BST for UK and it would come up. I do understand Todd's point. He wants to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)

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		Re: How do we ask for a new newsgroup to be set up?
(...) It's pretty easy to set up cross-reference links on the entry pages to the groups. (...) Name components in the .loc hierarchy are abbreviations for localities, for example, .loc.us.ma.bos stands for United States, Massachusetts, Boston, and (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)

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