*** 20001127.txt Sat Feb 16 10:35:12 2002 --- 20010609.txt Sat Feb 16 10:35:19 2002 *************** *** 1,16 **** From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Guidelines for Big Eight Newsgroup Creation ! Supersedes: ! Date: 1 Dec 2000 08:00:02 GMT Organization: The Eyrie ! Lines: 227 ! Expires: 5 Jan 2001 08:00:02 -0000 ! Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: windlord.stanford.edu ! Last-modified: November 27, 2000 (revision 0.33) 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 --- 1,16 ---- From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Guidelines for Big Eight Newsgroup Creation ! Supersedes: ! Date: 1 Jul 2001 07:00:03 GMT Organization: The Eyrie ! Lines: 231 ! Expires: 5 Aug 2001 08:00:03 -0000 ! Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: windlord.stanford.edu ! Last-modified: June 9, 2001 (revision 0.34) 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 *************** *** 95,101 **** 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 separately. The n.a.n moderator may require closely-related proposals ! to be combined or a bundling of unrelated proposals to be separated. 6. A proposal that is substantially similar to a previous failed proposal may not be made until at least six months after the close of vote on --- 95,105 ---- 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 separately. The n.a.n moderator may require closely-related proposals ! submitted at the same time to be combined or a bundling of unrelated ! proposals to be separated. Once a proposal has been posted as an RFD, ! however, the n.a.n moderator will not require that it be combined with ! another proposal, and instead overlapping proposals will be dealt with ! according to point 8. 6. A proposal that is substantially similar to a previous failed proposal may not be made until at least six months after the close of vote on