*** 19980718.txt Sat Feb 16 10:34:45 2002 --- 19990314.txt Sat Feb 16 10:34:51 2002 *************** *** 1,15 **** From: Russ Allbery ! Subject: Guidelines: The Big Eight Newsgroup Creation Process ! Date: 1999/01/31 ! Message-ID: ! Sender: eagle@windlord.stanford.edu Organization: The Eyrie Newsgroups: news.groups Archive-name: usenet/creating-newsgroups/big-eight ! Original-author: rra@stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) ! Last-change: 18 Jul 1998 by rra@stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) THE BIG EIGHT NEWSGROUP CREATION PROCESS --- 1,17 ---- From: Russ Allbery ! Subject: Guidelines for Big Eight Newsgroup Creation ! Date: 1999/03/14 ! Message-ID: ! Expires: 18 Apr 1999 14:20:19 -0000 Organization: The Eyrie Newsgroups: news.groups + Last-modified: March 14, 1999 (revision 0.29) + Posted-by: postfaq 0.4 (Perl 5.00502) Archive-name: usenet/creating-newsgroups/big-eight ! URL: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/big-eight.html ! Posting-frequency: monthly THE BIG EIGHT NEWSGROUP CREATION PROCESS *************** *** 20,25 **** --- 22,37 ---- through a discussion phase, a voting phase, and a verification phase to attempt to ensure proposals are well-conceived and meet a real need. + Special Note: This document is intended as a replacement for the + current "Guidelines for Usenet Newsgroup Creation" and is believed by + its author to already more accurately reflect the current process than + that document. However, some portions of it have not yet been settled + and it leaves off a good bit of additional explanation contained in + that document, so its formal adoption as a replacement is awaiting the + completion of a companion document that includes that additional + explanation. In the meantime, it is being posted to news.groups for + informational purposes and for use as a reference. + For information on how to submit a proposal and advice on working within this process, please see the FAQs posted to news.announce.newgroups and news.groups. *************** *** 60,68 **** Proposals will only be posted or crossposted to moderated groups with the explicit permission of the moderators of those groups. The total length of the Newsgroups header in the RFD (and CFV) must not exceed ! 200 characters, including "Newsgroups: ". Followups will be set to ! news.groups only. The RFD, after it has been posted, may be ! redistributed freely. 3. A proposal must consist of one or more of the following changes to Big Eight newsgroups: Creation of a new newsgroup, removal of a newsgroup --- 72,80 ---- Proposals will only be posted or crossposted to moderated groups with the explicit permission of the moderators of those groups. The total length of the Newsgroups header in the RFD (and CFV) must not exceed ! 200 characters, including "Newsgroups: ". The Followup-To header will ! be set to news.groups only (but see point 11). The RFD, after it has ! been posted, may be redistributed freely. 3. A proposal must consist of one or more of the following changes to Big Eight newsgroups: Creation of a new newsgroup, removal of a newsgroup *************** *** 74,80 **** 4. All proposed group names must be within the Big Eight hierarchies. A group name is made up of name components separated by '.'; each component must consist solely of lowercase letters, digits, '+', and ! '-', must contain at least one non-digit, and must be no more than fourteen characters long. 5. A proposal may include multiple changes if they are closely related, --- 86,92 ---- 4. All proposed group names must be within the Big Eight hierarchies. A group name is made up of name components separated by '.'; each component must consist solely of lowercase letters, digits, '+', and ! '-', must contain at least one letter (a-z), and must be no more than fourteen characters long. 5. A proposal may include multiple changes if they are closely related, *************** *** 187,195 **** address, and the vote of everyone who voted except for those people who subsequently cancelled their vote. ! 24. For every separate vote in the proposal, the vote will be considered ! to have passed if and only if it received at least 100 more YES than ! NO votes and received at least twice as many YES as NO votes. 25. After the result posting, there will be a five day period when any objections to the vote may be raised in news.groups. The n.a.n --- 199,207 ---- address, and the vote of everyone who voted except for those people who subsequently cancelled their vote. ! 24. Each separate proposed change will be considered to have passed if and ! only if it received at least 100 more YES than NO votes and received ! at least twice as many YES as NO votes. 25. After the result posting, there will be a five day period when any objections to the vote may be raised in news.groups. The n.a.n *************** *** 213,221 **** moderation, or for transition periods (for example, removal of an existing group may be delayed until creation of its replacement has had time to propagate). - - -- - Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) --- 225,230 ----