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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)
! Message-ID: <9728@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
! Date: 17 Feb 90 05:02:58 GMT
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  Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
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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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  From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
  Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.groups,news.admin
! Subject: How to Create a New Newsgroup  (Updated: 19 Jul 1990)
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! Date: 20 Jul 90 04:32:13 GMT
! Expires: 18 Oct 90 04:32:12 GMT
  Followup-To: poster
  Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
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  Original-from: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
! [Most recent change: 19 Jul 1990 by woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)]
  
        GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION
  
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     to moderated groups may mail submissions intended for news.announce.newgroups
     to "announce-newgroups@ncar.ucar.edu".
  
! 2) The discussion period should last for at least two weeks (14 days),
!    and no more than 30 days.
  
  3) The name and charter of the proposed group and whether it will be moderated
     or unmoderated (and if the former, who the moderator(s) will be) should be 
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     to moderated groups may mail submissions intended for news.announce.newgroups
     to "announce-newgroups@ncar.ucar.edu".
  
! 2) The voting period should last for at least 21 days though no longer
!    than 31 days, no matter what the preliminary results of the vote are.
!    The exact date that the voting period will end should be stated in
!    the call for votes. Only votes that arrive on the vote-taker's
!    machine prior to this date may be counted.
  
  3) The name and charter of the proposed group and whether it will be moderated
     or unmoderated (and if the former, who the moderator(s) will be) should be 
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     votes received to news.announce.newgroups and any other groups or mailing 
     lists to which the original call for votes was posted. 
  
! 2) AFTER the vote result is posted, there will be a 5 day waiting period
     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
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     votes received to news.announce.newgroups and any other groups or mailing 
     lists to which the original call for votes was posted. 
  
! 2) AFTER the vote result is posted, there will be a 5 day waiting period,
!    beginning when the voting results actually appear in news.announce.newgroups,
     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 valid 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
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     them there already. In any case, please send mail to Gene Spafford 
     (spaf@purdue.edu) informing him of a successful vote, so he can add the
     new group to the official list of groups which he maintains.
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  Gene Spafford