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! From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence)
! Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.groups,news.admin,news.announce.newgroups,news.answers
  Subject: How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup
! Message-ID: <spaf-howto_719471725@cs.purdue.edu>
! Date: 19 Oct 92 05:15:29 GMT
! Expires: 18 Dec 92 17:15:25 GMT
! Sender: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU
! Reply-To: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence)
  Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
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! Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU
! Supersedes: <spaf-howto_716962667@cs.purdue.edu>
  
  
  Archive-name: creating-newsgroups/part1
  Original-author: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
! Last-change: 23 Sep 1992 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
  
  				 GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION
  
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! From: tale@rodan.UU.NET (David C Lawrence)
! Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.groups,news.admin.misc,news.announce.newgroups,news.answers
  Subject: How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup
! Supersedes: <tale-howto_743462764@uunet.uu.net>
  Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
! Date: 24 Sep 1993 17:01:14 -0400
! Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA
! Lines: 162
! Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net
! Expires: 24 Nov 93 09:01:12 GMT
! Message-ID: <howto_748904472@uunet.uu.net>
! NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net
! Summary: creating new groups in comp, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, or talk
  
  
  Archive-name: creating-newsgroups/part1
  Original-author: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
! Comment: enhanced & edited until 5/93 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
! Last-change: 17 Sep 1993 by tale@uunet.uu.net
! 
! [[ Special note:  a proposal for major updates to this document should
!    be out in the not very distant future.  In the meantime a major
!    change has been made in this document with regard to handling of
!    the vote. ]]
  
  		 GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION
  
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     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@uunet.uu.net.
  
     The article should be cross-posted among the newsgroups, including
     news.announce.newgroups, rather than posted as separate articles.  Note that
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     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 newgroups@uunet.uu.net.
  
     The article should be cross-posted among the newsgroups, including
     news.announce.newgroups, rather than posted as separate articles.  Note that
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  The Vote
  
+ Currently, the use of the Usenet Volunteer Votetakers (UVV) is strongly
+ advocated for all newsgroup proposals.  Ron Dippold <rdippold@qualcomm.com>
+ co-ordinates this group.  Contact him to arrange the handling of the vote.
+ The mechanics of vote will be handled in accord with the paragraphs below.
+ 
  1) AFTER the discussion period, if it has been determined that a new group is
     really desired, a name and charter are agreed upon, and it has been
     determined whether the group will be moderated and if so who will
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  4) The newgroup message will be sent by the news.announce.newgroups moderator
     at the end of the waiting period of a successful vote.  If the new group is
     moderated, the vote-taker should send a message during the waiting period to
!    Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu> and David C. Lawrence <tale@uunet.uu.net> with
!    both the moderator's contact address and the group's submission address.
  
  5) A proposal which has failed under point (3) above should not again be
     brought up for discussion until at least six months have passed from the
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  4) The newgroup message will be sent by the news.announce.newgroups moderator
     at the end of the waiting period of a successful vote.  If the new group is
     moderated, the vote-taker should send a message during the waiting period to
!    David C. Lawrence <tale@uunet.uu.net> with both the moderator's contact
!    address and the group's submission address. 
  
  5) A proposal which has failed under point (3) above should not again be
     brought up for discussion until at least six months have passed from the