Create Internet news group?

[McCauley Technical Services]

[I was tempted to start CC'ing this to comp-infosystems-gis at cs.utexas.edu]

Greg Colello (gcolello at biosphere.Stanford.EDU) writes on 13 Nov 92

>I like your suggested way of doing this too. A moderator who relays  
>mail from the grasshopper make sense. Certainly the moderator could  

I too like this idea, but what about filtering posts TO the
proposed group? Automatically to grassu? 

>filter out the subscribe/unsubscribe messages and other such garbage.  
>Retaining the grasshopper guarentees that people who can't get on  
>usenet can still participate.

Are you volunteering? :-)

>I vote for combining grassu and grassp when transferring to usenet  
>(ie. comp.gis.grass). I suggested this for the grasshopper in a  

Try comp.infosystems.gis.grass. The comp.gis idea was shot down
when GIS-L made the transition. Besides, there's so much trash
on that newsgroup that a split would be good:
 c.i.g.grass
 c.i.g.arcinfo
 c.i.g.data

--Darrell McCauley