Re: New Newsgroup

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Derick Wuen (cullend@webone.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> To create a newsgroup outside the alt. whatever naming pattern requires
> approvals, discussions, patience with people with entrenched attitudes (as
> has been demonstrated in this thread). Fortunately the bureaucrats and
> self-appointed pooh-bars can be avoided.

The "self-appointed" people are those who actually OWN the network. Power
of the press goes to those who own the press.

> Set up your alt. whatever group,
> all it takes is an audience. Its up to you if you want
> alt.binaries.pictures.ausrail-freight-tickets

The problem is that alt.* newsgroups are not as well supported by news
admins, and alt.binaries.* even less so. Bews admins allocate very little
space on news servers for binaries newsgroups, and as binary postings tend
to be extremely large they tend not to stay active for long. Combine the
effects of poor support, poor distribution and short active lives of
articles and you have a very inifficient method of distributing pictures.

Binaries newsgroups are an anachronism from the days before the WWW. Given
the proliferation of free web hosts, a binaries newsgroup is simply not
necessary. Get yourself a free web page and pictures will stay up as long
as YOU want them to, not merely as long as some newsadmin you've never met
decides to let them stay active.

Cheers
David