Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] headache

["David E. Smith" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, bd wrote:

> What do UVVs do?

um, we volunterr to take votes for usenet. :-)

(Non-Nomic content follows!)

The best-propagated Usenet newsgroups are groups in the "Big 8" - comp,
rec, sci, soc, talk, news, humanities, and misc. Those groups have the
most history, but the reason they're so well-propagated to Usenet servers
around the world is that there's a bit of control in those hierarchies.

Basically, groups won't be created in those eight unless it's reasonably
certain that people will be using those groups for some time to come, thus
justifying taking up disk space on tens of thousands of Usenet servers --
theoretically, those groups should be popular enough that someone at every
Usenet site will want to read a few of 'em.

(Contrast this with alt.* where pretty much anyone can, and probably has,
created a newsgroup, but it's murder trying to get one carried widely.)

Anyway. Part of determining whether a group has enough potential users to
justify its creation in the "Big 8" is a public vote. The UVV are neutral
third-party votetakers.

(Basically, it's what I do for the Nomic, only somewhere else. :)

If you're just dying to read up on this sort of thing, www.uvv.org should
still be up and kicking, or you can just drop in on the "news.groups"
newsgroup and watch the fun unfold.

And now, to leave town. Wheee!

...dave
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