>There is no vote necessary to set up an alt.* group. Hurray!
>However, alt.* groups will need the individual manual >confirmation of thousands of local news server >administrators, Boo! >The existance of an alt.* group might or might not >in the future also be counted as an argument >against a new Big8 group. Boo! That certainly weights it in favour of waiting 6 months and trying again. I am not sure what is best. >If we try misc.metric-system again, we should make >sure first that we have in the order to 100 people >on various related mailing lists that will vote >for YES. We should discuss tactics. I am sure that we already have enough people who would have said yes.
