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  From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
  Subject: Guidelines for Big Eight Newsgroup Creation
! Date: 1999/03/14
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  From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
  Subject: Guidelines for Big Eight Newsgroup Creation
! Date: 1999/04/01
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      of news administrators or have a sufficiently deleterious effect on
      the Big Eight as a whole as to make it dangerously unworkable or
      extremely ill-advised (for example, a proposal for a newsgroup where
!     the the act of posting on charter would be nigh universally illegal).
  
  11. All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.
      If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, it may be
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      of news administrators or have a sufficiently deleterious effect on
      the Big Eight as a whole as to make it dangerously unworkable or
      extremely ill-advised (for example, a proposal for a newsgroup where
!     the act of posting on charter would be nigh universally illegal).
  
  11. All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.
      If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, it may be
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      tidying up some wording in the rationale or charter.
  
  13. The discussion period must be a minimum of 21 days.  If a proposal
!     remains in the RFD phase for more than four months, the proposal may
!     be suspended and a competing proposal allowed to go forward.
  
  THE VOTE
  
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      tidying up some wording in the rationale or charter.
  
  13. The discussion period must be a minimum of 21 days.  If a proposal
!     remains in the RFD phase for more than 120 days, the proposal may be
!     suspended and a competing proposal allowed to go forward.  If it has
!     been more than 120 days since the latest RFD for a proposal and a
!     Proponent Questionnaire (see point 14) was not submitted within 60
!     days of the latest RFD, the proposal will be considered withdrawn.
  
  THE VOTE