Re: New Newsgroup

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

David Bromage wrote in message <4W7j4.38$zH4.480386@news0.optus.net.au>...
>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.

Nobel prize accepted. Ticket to Stockholm expected in next mail.

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


Agreed. Thats why alt. newsgroups flourish.

>
>> 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.
>

Inefficiency for who?

Ol' freightman was asking for advice on how to do something, not reasons why
he should not do it.

>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.


I always mistrust a statement which puts "simply" in the same sentence as
anything to do with IT, on principle.

In a free society, who are we to judge. Not the first time pc flaming
directed at someone who prefers not to www but to post binaries. Where are
you dirtcircuit?

Wonder why alt.binaries.pictures.rail persists despite its lowly birth,
unwarranted longevity and doubtful utility?  ....I'm probably not the only
one who likes to look at it.

Do yourself a favour and get an ISP who supports a multiplicity of USER
services.

>
>Cheers
>David