Proposal: alt.north.carolina

[Joel Furr]

In article <2grtvs$e...@amhux3.amherst.edu>,
Tim Pierce <twpi...@unix.amherst.edu> wrote:
>In article <2grrjq$6...@lester.appstate.edu>,
>Heath L. Buckmaster <hb6...@acs.appstate.edu> wrote:
>
>>most of the unc system schools have their own private newsgroups, hoever
>>there is not one that spans for the entire state, many times there are
>>interesting articles which are not available to all the unc system
>>because it's on a private section....
>
>Get a system administrator in the area to create a "unc" or "nc"
>hierarchy. Why burden the whole net with a local problem?

I was talking with the news admin at Duke about resurrecting the nc.
hierarchy. It died an early death partly becuase the first group in it
was nc.info-highway, which made no sense to anyone. Comment from North
Carolinians before an nc.general group gets set up?

[CHRISTOPHER D DUKES]

In article <2gsm0g$6...@char.vnet.net>, Joel Furr <jf...@char.vnet.net> wrote:
>
>I was talking with the news admin at Duke about resurrecting the nc.
>hierarchy. It died an early death partly becuase the first group in it
>was nc.info-highway, which made no sense to anyone. Comment from North
>Carolinians before an nc.general group gets set up?

Don't look at me... Last I heard Tim was a bit concerned by my creating
a group rather low on the alt.* hierarchy.
What good would a nc.* hierarchy do anyways? nc.forsale... where you can
go from Manteo to Murphy for the purpose of picking up used equipment.
nc.sports with the never ending flamewar. nc.news.current, Hey THIS IS
the Rip Van Winkle state. If it was important it'll be discussed within
the next 20 years.
The other thing is that I've been on newsservers all over the world, and
I haven't seen an awful lot of sites that had a regional hiearchy of
groups outside of something maybe the size of the Research Triangle.

The places that would be the most likely to successfully push something
like that would be vnet.net out of Charlotte, and the Internet services
company that Capital Broadcasting bought from MCNC (or was it NCSC).

--
"Very Pete Townshendish." "Who?" "Exactly."
cdd...@eos.ncsu.edu cdu...@nyx.cs.du.edu pak...@vnet.ibm.com

[Stephen Graham]

In article <1994Jan11.0...@ncsu.edu> cdd...@eos.ncsu.edu (CHRISTOPHER D DUKES) writes:
>The other thing is that I've been on newsservers all over the world, and
>I haven't seen an awful lot of sites that had a regional hiearchy of
>groups outside of something maybe the size of the Research Triangle.

Inside the U.S., the pnw hierarchy is fairly successful, covering
Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and perhaps Idaho.

Then there are things like can.*, uk.*, or de.*, which seem to do
moderately well.

--
Stephen Graham
gra...@cs.washington.edu uw-beaver!june!graham
gra...@ee.washington.edu

[Brian]

Co.* is pretty popular. It works because there is a free news server in
Colorado, which anyone with telnet in Colorado and beyond can access.
The same is true with North Carolina.
If the NC.* groups are created, launchpad should subscribe to it boosting
its popularity.

But the real newsgroups that need to be created are:
duke.linux
triangle.linux
nc.charlotte.linux
unc.linux
mcnc.linux
concert.linux
ncsu.linux
nc.linux

:)