Whats wrong with discussing proposals for new groups in news.groups?
The news.groups newsgroup has a significant place in the history of Usenet and has served as the spot for discussing potential new groups since there were enough participants to make it an issue. (Before then, new groups were created simply by submitting an article to them; the news software created the new group on the fly.) Even from its early days, there were issues with discussions in news.groups. (An article from 1982 refers to “the flaming [that] has gone on for a while”, and calls news.groups “the silliest group on the net”.) Regular participants in news.groups learn to cope with flames, insults, and other disruptive behavior. Coping mechanisms include software killfiles and learning that certain individuals are in news.groups not to provide constructive criticism but simply to play with the system. Proponents for new groups were required by the group-creation process to participate in the discussion of their proposal in news.groups. Some proponents are intimidated by this prosp
