Proposal alt.cellular.t-mobile

In alt.cellular.gsm.carriers.voicestream Scott Ehrlich <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Why start a t-mobile newsgroup after all these years after VS has changed
> to T-mobile? It would be interesting to see which one eventually wins -
> between the existing VS or new TM group.
>

The TM group was fought from its inception and people just gave up. That had
a largely negative impact on t-mobile discussion on USENET in my opinion.

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[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:
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>>> 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.
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>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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Sven Golly wrote:
> Steve Sobol <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
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>> a) That means nothing to an ISP or news outsourcer - they don't care
>> how many crossposts there are into a newsgroup. The ONLY thing that's
>> going to carry any weight is if that company's customers ask them to
>> carry the group.
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> Not quite right. I once asked the guy who was the head admin for
> StooperNews (can't remember his name -- something French I think)

Andrew? Danhiel? Ade?

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Sven Golly wrote:
> Steve Sobol <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
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>> I'd personally like to see posts from non-US T-Mo users, which is
>> never, ever going to happen while the group is named "voicestream",
>> since I guarantee no one overseas knows or cares what VoiceStream was.
>
> IAWTP.

Huh? EXPN? (That's an acronym I've never seen before.)

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