*** 19990328.txt Sat Feb 16 10:34:58 2002 --- 20000205.txt Sat Feb 16 10:35:05 2002 *************** *** 1,15 **** From: Russ Allbery Subject: Guidelines for Big Eight Newsgroup Creation ! Date: 1999/04/01 ! Message-ID: ! Expires: 6 May 1999 08:00:06 -0000 ! Supersedes: Organization: The Eyrie Newsgroups: news.groups ! Last-modified: March 28, 1999 (revision 0.31) ! 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 --- 1,15 ---- From: Russ Allbery Subject: Guidelines for Big Eight Newsgroup Creation ! Date: 2000/03/01 ! Message-ID: ! Expires: 5 Apr 2000 09:00:13 -0000 ! Supersedes: Organization: The Eyrie Newsgroups: news.groups ! Last-modified: February 5, 2000 (revision 0.32) ! Posted-by: postfaq 0.4 (Perl 5.00503) Archive-name: usenet/creating-newsgroups/big-eight URL: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/big-eight.html Posting-frequency: monthly *************** *** 88,94 **** 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, but each individual change (as defined in point 3) will be voted on --- 88,94 ---- 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 ! twenty characters long. 5. A proposal may include multiple changes if they are closely related, but each individual change (as defined in point 3) will be voted on