Proposal alt.cellular.t-mobile

In alt.cellular.gsm.carriers.voicestream Steve Sobol <[email protected]> wrote:
> John Navas wrote:
>
>> Good point. Perhaps a better new name would be alt.cellular.t-mobile.usa
>
> That's one way to go. It's just as easy to only do alt.cellular.t-mobile.
>
>> Of course not -- Cingular was a separate operation when I created
>> alt.cellular.cingular
>
> well, that's true, its predecessors didn't have their own newsgroups, eh.
>

The control message I sent is to create alt.cellular.t-mobile.

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In alt.cellular.gsm.carriers.voicestream John Navas <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>Yes, and see my response. This is USENET and not Google Groups. USENET is
>>not organized for the benefit of Google Groups users.
>
> Irrelevant to my point, which is that Google Groups is a very popular and
> convenient way to find newsgroups.
>

Of course it is. That doesn't have anything to do with the discussion though.
They will find voicestream only through osmosis and be confused about whether
posting there is correct. There will be no such confusion with a t-mobile
group ... Google Groups or not. So, what was your justification for
alt.cellular.cingular? It seems to me that alt.cellular would have been
sufficient

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Thomas T. Veldhouse
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Even if you are not a T-Mobile user,
try and get your ISP or news server to add the "T-Mobile" group -
It helps us all to have a familar name to the various carrier news
groups.

"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In alt.cellular.gsm.carriers.voicestream Steve Sobol
<[email protected]> wrote:
> > John Navas wrote:
> >
> >> Good point. Perhaps a better new name would be
alt.cellular.t-mobile.usa
> >
> > That's one way to go. It's just as easy to only do
alt.cellular.t-mobile.
> >
> >> Of course not -- Cingular was a separate operation when I created
> >> alt.cellular.cingular
> >
> > well, that's true, its predecessors didn't have their own
newsgroups, eh.
> >
>
> The control message I sent is to create alt.cellular.t-mobile.
>
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> Thomas T. Veldhouse
> Key Fingerprint: 2DB9 813F F510 82C2 E1AE 34D0 D69D 1EDC D5EC AED1
>

[POSTED TO alt.cellular.cingular - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]

In <[email protected]> on 10 Apr 2006 13:43:33
GMT, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[email protected]> wrote:

>In alt.cellular.gsm.carriers.voicestream Steve Sobol <[email protected]> wrote:
>> John Navas wrote:
>>
>>> Good point. Perhaps a better new name would be alt.cellular.t-mobile.usa
>>
>> That's one way to go. It's just as easy to only do alt.cellular.t-mobile.
>>
>>> Of course not -- Cingular was a separate operation when I created
>>> alt.cellular.cingular
>>
>> well, that's true, its predecessors didn't have their own newsgroups, eh.
>
>The control message I sent is to create alt.cellular.t-mobile.

If you want to succeed, you'll probably need to do a lot more than that, like
persuading major news services to carry it. That's what I did with
alt.cellular.cingular

BTW, it's rude to keep posting more limited follow-ups than the newsgroups
you're posting to. If you don't want the other newsgroups to be involved,
then don't post to them. [cross-posting restored, again]

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