"Marvin Hlavac" wrote in message
able.rogers.com...

"Velvet" wrote in message
...
Ok, I think I've just managed to answer BOTH my questions. A search through
google revealed the following from the last time this issue was encountered,
back in 1998!

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Most likely it should be called alt.binaries.pictures.aquaria.
not a good idea at all - when i first heard about a.b.aquaria being
proposed,
the idea was to exclude "pictures" for the simply reason that it places it
way
out of line of the pictures groups and the porn-spammers don't see it as
part
of their target list - and sofar that's worked admirably !

Unfortunately, you'll probably get objections if your group name doesn't
fit with the others in the namespace, so it is less likely to fly with just
alt.binaries.aquaria. Perhaps one reason you don't see much porn-spam here
is because very few sites carry alt.binaries.aquaria due to bad namespace.

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*sigh*

So, it doesn't fit the naming conventions, which means there's little hope
it'll ever be ISC listed. I shall return to leading a pictorially-deprived
life, unless people can see fit to upload photos to webspace and post a link
to such here as well as posting in binaries.

Velvet




Hi Velvet,

I wonder what is involved in creating a new news group. It most likely would
not
be that difficult to create rec.aquaria.binaries or what ever the proper name
should be. What should be the proper name?

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Marvin
hlavac (at) rogers (dot) com




Hi Velvet,

It could be worth while to start a newsgroup with a proper name for that
purpose. If your ISP doesn't want to carry alt.binaries.aquaria because it is
not named properly chances are other ISP's feel the same way. The current
alt.binaries.aquaria does not have very many visitors who actually post
something. Perhaps if more people can access it this will improve.

If you want to go through the trouble why don't you find out how to set up a new
newsgroup and most of us will be very grateful ;-)

Good luck,
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Marvin
hlavac (at) rogers (dot) com