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  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
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  Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
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! Posted: Tue Nov  7 01:40:50 1989
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  Original-from: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
! [Most recent change: 6  Nov 1989 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
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        GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION
  
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  From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
  Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.groups,news.admin
! Subject: How to Create a New Newsgroup  (Updated: 16 Feb 1990)
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! Date: 17 Feb 90 05:02:58 GMT
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! Posted: Sat Feb 17 06:02:58 1990
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  Original-from: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
! [Most recent change: 16 Feb 1990 by woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)]
  
        GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION
  
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     during which the net will have a chance to correct any errors in
     the voter list or the voting procedure.
  
! 3) AFTER the waiting period, and if there were no serious objections that might
!    invalidate the vote, and if 100 more YES/create votes are received
!    than NO/don't create, a newgroup control message may be sent out.
!    If the 100 vote margin is not met, the group should not be created.
     The newgroup message may be sent by the vote-taker (if able to do so)
     or by the system administrator on the vote-taker's machine. If this
     option is not available, then the vote-taker should send mail to
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     during which the net will have a chance to correct any errors in
     the voter list or the voting procedure.
  
! 3) AFTER the waiting period, and if there were no serious objections
!    that might invalidate the vote, and if 100 more YES/create votes
!    are received than NO/don't create AND at least 2/3 of the total
!    number of valid votes received are in favor of creation, a newgroup
!    control message may be sent out.  If the 100 vote margin or 2/3
!    percentage is not met, the group should not be created.
! 
     The newgroup message may be sent by the vote-taker (if able to do so)
     or by the system administrator on the vote-taker's machine. If this
     option is not available, then the vote-taker should send mail to