woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) (08/08/89)
The new moderated newsgroup news.announce.newgroups is up and ready. All new newsgroup proposals, calls for votes, and results of votes should be posted to this group. It is hoped that ALL such postings will go to this group, so that one only need read the moderated group to know what new newsgroup proposals are before the net and what their status is. To that end the newsgroup creation guidelines have been changed to state that these postings should go in the moderated group rather than news.groups. Followup discussions will continue to take place in news.groups. The moderated group will contain ONLY new group proposals, calls for votes, and results of votes, and periodic postings of the newsgroup creation guidelines. Proposals for changes to the newsgroup creation procedure will also be considered, again with the discussion and inevitable flame wars taking place only in news.groups, provided that these proposals do not become too numerous (bearing in mind that the major goal of this new group is to keep the volume low). Articles will only be rejected for two reasons: 1) They do not meet the newsgroup's charter (which includes followups to previous articles; the charter specifically prohibits this); and 2) They appear to be accidental violations of the newsgroup creation guidelines. Articles which state that the poster is aware of the guidelines violation will be posted provided that they are within the charter of the group. In any case, any article rejected for reason #2 above will be posted anyway if the poster insists upon it after being informed of the violation. I know that it will take a while before everyone becomes aware of the new group, so for the first two months (which allows some overlap time for students who have been off the net for the summer) I will take appropriate postings out of news.groups and post them to news.announce.newgroups (although I can't promise that I will notice every such article even though I will be looking for them; there are a LOT of articles in news.groups, which is the main reason for having the moderated group in the first place). Most news software allows posting to moderated groups by any user, with the article getting mailed to the moderator. If this doesn't work on your site for some reason, and you can't get it fixed, you can mail submissions directly to news-announce-newgroups@ncar.ucar.edu --Greg