*** 19950118.txt Sat Feb 16 10:34:07 2002 --- 19951027.txt Sat Feb 16 10:34:14 2002 *************** *** 1,45 **** ! From: tale@uunet.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: ! Followup-To: news.newusers.questions ! Date: 12 Mar 1995 19:41:00 -0500 ! Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA ! Lines: 166 ! Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net ! Expires: 12 May 95 12:40:59 GMT ! Message-ID: ! NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net ! Summary: creating new groups in comp, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, or talk Archive-name: usenet/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: 18 Jan 1995 by tale@uunet.uu.net GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION REQUIREMENTS FOR GROUP CREATION: 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 should be dropped, except under extraordinary circumstances. The ! reason these are called guidelines and not absolute rules is that it is ! not possible to predict in advance what "extraordinary circumstances" ! are or how they might arise. ! It should be pointed out here that, as always, the decision whether or not ! to create a newsgroup on a given machine rests with the administrator of that ! machine. These guidelines are intended merely as an aid in making those ! decisions. The Discussion --- 1,44 ---- ! From: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Subject: How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup ! Date: 1996/01/06 ! Message-ID: ! expires: 7 Mar 96 05:50:29 GMT ! sender: tale@uunet.uu.net ! supersedes: ! followup-to: news.newusers.questions ! summary: creating new groups in the hierarchies of comp, humanities, misc, ! organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA ! newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.groups,news.admin.misc,news.announce.newgroups,news.answers Archive-name: usenet/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: 27 Oct 1995 by newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION REQUIREMENTS FOR GROUP CREATION: 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, humanities, ! misc, news, rec, sci, soc, talk, 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 should be dropped, except under extraordinary circumstances. The ! reason these are called guidelines and not absolute rules is that it ! is not possible to predict in advance what "extraordinary ! circumstances" are or how they might arise. ! It should be pointed out here that, as always, the decision whether ! or not to create a newsgroup on a given machine rests with the ! administrator of that machine. These guidelines are intended merely as ! an aid in making those decisions. The Discussion *************** *** 85,91 **** The Usenet Volunteer Votetakers (UVV) are a group of neutral third-party vote-takers who currently handle vote gathering and counting for all newsgroup proposals. The coordinators of the group can be reached at ! uvv-contact@amdahl.com; contact them 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 --- 84,90 ---- The Usenet Volunteer Votetakers (UVV) are a group of neutral third-party vote-takers who currently handle vote gathering and counting for all newsgroup proposals. The coordinators of the group can be reached at ! uvv-contact@uvv.org; contact them 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