*** 19900719.txt Sat Feb 16 10:33:15 2002 --- 19900906.txt Sat Feb 16 10:33:19 2002 *************** *** 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: 19 Jul 1990) ! Message-ID: <11122@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> ! 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. ! Lines: 141 Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU ! Posted: Fri Jul 20 05:32:13 1990 ! Supersedes: <10378@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> 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 --- 1,20 ---- ! From: lear@turbo.bio.net Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.groups,news.admin ! Subject: How to Create a New Newsgroup ! Message-ID: <11576@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> ! Date: 6 Sep 90 16:37:07 GMT ! Expires: 5 Dec 90 16:37:06 GMT ! Sender: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU ! Reply-To: lear@turbo.bio.net Followup-To: poster ! Lines: 133 Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU ! Posted: Thu Sep 6 17:37:07 1990 ! Supersedes: <11263@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Original-from: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) ! [Most recent change: 06 Sep 1990 by lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot Lear)] GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION *************** *** 46,68 **** at all related to the proposed topic if desired. This group is moderated, and The Followup-to: header will be set so that the actual discussion takes place only in news.groups. Users on sites which have difficulty posting ! 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 determined during the discussion period. If there is no general agreement on these points among the proponents of a new group at the end of 30 days of discussion, the discussion should be taken offline (into mail instead of ! news.groups) and the proponents should iron out the details among themselves. ! Once that is done, a new, more specific proposal may be made, going back ! to step 1) above. The Vote --- 47,63 ---- at all related to the proposed topic if desired. This group is moderated, and The Followup-to: header will be set so that the actual discussion takes place only in news.groups. Users on sites which have difficulty posting ! to moderated groups may mail submissions intended for ! news.announce.newgroups to "announce-newgroups@turbo.bio.net". ! 2) 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 determined during the discussion period. If there is no general agreement on these points among the proponents of a new group at the end of 30 days of discussion, the discussion should be taken offline (into mail instead of ! news.groups) and the proponents should iron out the details among ! themselves. Once that is done, a new, more specific proposal may be made, ! going back to step 1) above. The Vote *************** *** 81,92 **** different than that the article was posted from to mail votes to, or to just accept replies to the call for votes article, as long as it is clearly and explicitly stated in the call for votes article how ! to cast a vote. ! ! 2) The voting period should last for at least 21 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) A couple of repeats of the call for votes may be posted during the vote, provided that they contain similar clear, unbiased instructions for --- 76,90 ---- different than that the article was posted from to mail votes to, or to just accept replies to the call for votes article, as long as it is clearly and explicitly stated in the call for votes article how ! to cast a vote. If two addresses are used for a vote, the reply ! address must process and accept both yes and no votes OR reject ! them both. ! ! 2) The voting period should last for at least 21 days and no more 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) A couple of repeats of the call for votes may be posted during the vote, provided that they contain similar clear, unbiased instructions for *************** *** 120,134 **** 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. 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 --- 118,134 ---- The Result ! 1) At the completion of the 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. The tally should include ! a statement of which way each voter voted so that the results can be ! verified. 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 *************** *** 146,157 **** 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. - - - -- - Gene Spafford - NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, - Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 - Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf --- 146,150 ----