*** 19891010.txt Sat Feb 16 10:33:02 2002 --- 19891106.txt Sat Feb 16 10:33:06 2002 *************** *** 1,18 **** From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.groups,news.admin ! Subject: How to Create a New Newsgroup (Updated: 10 Oct 1989) ! Message-ID: <8307@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> ! Date: 17 Oct 89 05:32:16 GMT ! Expires: 15 Jan 90 05:32:15 GMT Followup-To: news.announce.newusers Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Lines: 134 Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU ! Supersedes: <7841@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Original-from: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) ! [Most recent change: 10 Oct 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION --- 1,19 ---- From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.groups,news.admin ! Subject: How to Create a New Newsgroup (Updated: 6 Nov 1989) ! Message-ID: <8544@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> ! Date: 7 Nov 89 00:40:50 GMT ! Expires: 5 Feb 90 00:40:49 GMT Followup-To: news.announce.newusers Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Lines: 134 Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU ! Posted: Tue Nov 7 01:40:50 1989 ! Supersedes: <8307@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Original-from: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) ! [Most recent change: 6 Nov 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION *************** *** 21,31 **** These are guidelines that have been generally agreed upon across USENET as appropriate for following in the creating of new newsgroups in ! the "standard" USENET newsgroup heirarchy. They are NOT intended as guidelines for setting USENET policy other than group creations, and they ! are not intended to apply to "alternate" or local news heirarchies. The part of the namespace affected is comp, news, sci, misc, soc, talk, rec, ! which are the most widely-distributed areas of the USENET heirarchy. Any group creation request which follows these guidelines to a successful result should be honored, and any request which fails to follow these procedures or to obtain a successful result from doing so --- 22,32 ---- These are guidelines that have been generally agreed upon across USENET as appropriate for following in the creating of new newsgroups in ! the "standard" USENET newsgroup hierarchy. They are NOT intended as guidelines for setting USENET policy other than group creations, and they ! are not intended to apply to "alternate" or local news hierarchies. The part of the namespace affected is comp, news, sci, misc, soc, talk, rec, ! which are the most widely-distributed areas of the USENET hierarchy. Any group creation request which follows these guidelines to a successful result should be honored, and any request which fails to follow these procedures or to obtain a successful result from doing so *************** *** 117,123 **** The Result ! 1) At the completion of the 30 day voting period, the vote taker must post the vote tally and the E-mail addresses and (if available) names of the votes received to news.announce.newgroups and any other groups or mailing lists to which the original call for votes was posted. --- 118,124 ---- The Result ! 1) At the completion of the 21 day voting period, the vote taker must post the vote tally and the E-mail addresses and (if available) names of the votes received to news.announce.newgroups and any other groups or mailing lists to which the original call for votes was posted.