On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 08:57:29 +0100, martin wrote:

~On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:53:34 +0000 (UTC), "Mike" wrote:
~
~ Yes, it's here on my machine - right next to yours in fact.
~
~ Can't say i see any need for it though
~
~ I agree.
~
~ I suppose we had better subscribe to uk.net.news.config and make our
~ views on the matter known.
~ --
~ Martin
~
~Does that mean you are not in agreement with such newsgroup being set up,
~and therefore are going to oppose it?
~
~If so, why?
~
~There have been numerous posters on this newsgroup who have asked advice
~because they are new allotment holders. urg has a very knowledgeable
~subscriber base and I feel that some of the newbie allotment holders may
~feel a little intimidated by the skills shown here and might not wish to ask
~what might be a serious question to them, but feel it is trivial to the more
~skilled subscriber and fail to ask.
~
~I feel that this newsgroup should encourage an allotment newsgroup and make
~sure that any new allotment holder is made aware of it in a very helpful way
~and not a case of 'There's a newsgroup for you lot, ask your question there,
~newbie' Who knows, someone here might just even be an advisor for that
~newsgroup as well, is there any harm in that?
~
~The discussion *has* to be on unnc.
~--
~Martin

Well at least this is one place where cross-posting is useful, then.
:-) I just tried to sub to unnc and there's thousands of posts, none
of which I want to spend hours downloading!

I am an allotment holder, I run an allotment diary on my webpage (with
hints, tips etc) and I do think there's a need for a place for people
to ask questions. I subscribed in the first place to urg as it was
just that and I had a query or two.
A lottie subgroup would probably be a very low volume group, and most
of the posts would probably get crossposted to urg in any case, to
catch folk who didn't sub to the new group.

In which situation, why do we need a new one? urg is not the highest
volume group and it's friendly! And allotments are not off topic...

My take: Subgroup not needed as urg is inclusive, and most posts would
probably be crossposted to urg in any case, wasting bandwidth.


--
jane

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