Talk:Alt.* hierarchy

Someone should mention John Gilmore here, or are all of you conservatives? Family Guy Guy 07:19, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

" Likewise, any and all of the alt.binaries.* newsgroups can be accepted or rejected by administrators if they choose. Binaries are often of extremely large size, which is why administrators may choose to exclude them."

Which administrators are you talking about ? The administrators of the servers providing access to newsgroup ? Or the administrators of the newsgroup itself ? Because, as I can read, there's not really admin for the alt. hierarchies, so I don't understand.

Interesting article, though.

I'm the author of the previous post. I apologize, I just had not read the first part of the article, lol.

So, if I understand, there is indeed administrators in the alt hierarchy. And if I want to create a group about, mmh, bananas for instance, named alt.bananas, I have first to submit this idea to the alt.config group, or my group may exist but may not be well distributed. Strange, however, does it mean that the news servers check alt config before to retrieve all the group of alt ? Moreover, what does it means "technically capable" ? What do I need to create a newsgroup with my newsreader ?

Thanks. 16 april 2006