*** 20010609.txt Sat Feb 16 10:35:19 2002 --- 20011102.txt Sat Feb 16 10:35:27 2002 *************** *** 1,17 **** 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 Posting-frequency: monthly --- 1,19 ---- From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Guidelines for Big Eight Newsgroup Creation ! Supersedes: ! Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 08:00:02 +0000 (UTC) Organization: The Eyrie ! Lines: 232 ! Expires: 5 Jan 2002 08:00:03 -0000 ! Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: windlord.stanford.edu + X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1007193602 29078 171.64.13.23 (1 Dec 2001 08:00:02 GMT) + X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu ! Last-modified: November 2, 2001 (revision 0.35) ! Posted-by: postfaq 0.4 (Perl 5.006001) Archive-name: usenet/creating-newsgroups/big-eight URL: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/big-eight.html Posting-frequency: monthly *************** *** 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 --- 97,108 ---- 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 into a single RFD. The ! n.a.n moderator may also require that unrelated proposals combined in ! a single RFD be split into multiple RFDs. Once a proposal has been ! posted as an RFD, 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