Post by JackPost by Adam H. KermanPost by -= Hawk =-Post by JackPost by AnonymousProposed New Newsgroup
alt.bitcoins
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I hate to agree with Adam but. . . if people are discussing a topic
somewhere what makes you think they'll move, en masse to usenet from
where's they're currently happy discussing the topic?
Well it appears that we have two NO votes. . . .
Dear gawd
Neither Hawk nor I have votes.
http://www.faqs.org/usenet/alt/
I read the above guide at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-creation-guide/
and this is where I thought the protocols was to ask for follow-ups to
an email address here's the text in question from this FAQ.
"Votes? Did someone say vote?
Let me repeat. There are no votes in alt. Period. If you want to
gather an "opinion poll" for your own purposes to see how popular
the group will be, great. Do not post votes to alt.config. Every
few months someone says "hey I've got a great idea for a newsgroup
alt.widget, what do you think?". Someone responds "I vote yes!",
causing a chain-reaction of posts to alt.config, lasting for days
or weeks. These serve no purpose but to annoy readers of
alt.config, and to distribute dozens of messages across the globe
that should have ended up in someone's mailbox instead. Please,
use a Followup-To: poster in your header and gather votes by
e-mail. Then post a summary after a week or two."
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FAQs are the opinion of their author. Several are available, which is why
we list a range of opinion.
Truly, the author of that FAQ didn't emphasize just how useless any
information gathered from that opinion poll would be. It's not any kind
of poll at all anyway.
All that's known about Usenet is what people actually do, versus what they
promise to do. Someone stating "I'll post to the group if it's created" is
beyond worthless if he's never discussed the topic on Usenet.
Ignore everything else I've told you and concentrate on this:
Find an appropriate newsgroup to discuss the topic in. Start posting,
especially followups in threads discussing bitcoin. Getting discussion going
is far more important than anything else.
Proposing newsgroups does fuck-all to get discussion going.
Post by JackThanks for all the other links. I will do my homework and report back if
necessary. I'm open to constructive criticism, but would recommend that
all the f-bombs and personal attacks have no purpose. I'm a grown ass
man just as I assume you are and the High School nature of your first
responses does nothing to move the ball forward.
Perhaps you could learn a lesson and NOT post to Usenet from dizum,
especially to propose a newsgroup.
Sorry, but my opinion of that will never change. Newsgroups are proposed
publicly by people who are known on Usenet for discussing that topic.
If you're unwilling to make yourself known on Usenet for discussing the
topic of the newsgroup you would propose, you have absolutely no business
proposing newsgroups.
It's really that simple.
My opinion of someone who would morph within a thread will never change either.
Lastly, you just didn't listen when you were told that newsgroups for
FAQs and nothing else are never proposed. Newsgroups for FAQs were all
created years ago. There are plenty of newsgroups for FAQs. They all
have *.answers as their final name part. Anyone can submit an FAQ to
get it approved for period posting; they even have servers to do the
periodic posting if the author doesn't do his own cron job. FAQs also
get crossposted to the related newsgroup.