Russ Allbery <
eagle@eyrie.org> wrote:
Mima-sama <mi@masa.ma> writes:
. . .
I'm opposed to it too, but for the different reason that is that there >>exists already one at alt.comp.lang.rust. There's no point in creating a >>newsgroup in Big-8 for a topic whose home already exists in alt.*, as >>pointed out by ahk again in the same article I mentioned by ID.
By this rule, we would never have created any Big Eight newsgroups at all. >alt.* predates all of the groups we're discussing on this newsgroup and,
due to the nature of alt.* newsgroup creation, there was essentially
always already an alt.* group.
C'mon, Russ. During skirv's brief tenure as hierarchy administrator,
none of his dozen "I just know it!" groups, all of which were redundant
of existing alt.* groups, found an audience.
If there's already a narrowly focused group, then it's just as
straightforward to find with a key word search if it's in alt.* or one
of the Big 8 hierarchies.
I certainly don't agree that deliberately starting redundant newsgroups
is either helpful or welcoming in any way. It's just not going to create
new discussion out of thin air.
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