woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) (06/30/89)
Group name: news.announce.newgroups . An informal poll I took regarding whether this group should be under news.announce or news.groups was, unfortunately, inconclusive (the vote was 14-13, and if I add in my own vote it comes out 14-14). The telling point to me was that the news.announce area is generally in the required subscription list for new users. It is also where all other moderated groups in the news heirarchy are, except news.lists which is it's own sub-heirarchy. I hope that having "newgroups" in the name will pacify some of those who favored having the group under news.groups Group charter: This group will contain all new newsgroup proposals (calls for discussion), calls for votes, and voting results. It will contain ONLY calls for discussion, calls for votes, voting results, and possibly an occasional posting of the newsgroup creation guidelines. Other proposals having to do with the newsgroup creation procedure will be accepted if they are in the form of a call for discussion. NO followups will be allowed. Followups will be directed to news.groups, where all discussions will take place. It is intended that all new newsgroup creations will happen via this group. The newsgroup creation guidelines will be changed to reflect this. Moderator: The group will be moderated by me (Greg Woods, woods@ncar.ucar.edu) Moderation policy: All articles which are not in the group charter as defined above will be rejected outright. Violations of the newsgroup creation guidelines which appear to be inadvertent will be rejected with explanation. Articles which are in violation of the guidelines but which contain language making it clear that the violation is intentional will be accepted provided they are within the group charter. Poorly-formed proposals, or proposals for groups which already exist, or proposals which have recently been voted down will be rejected with explanation, with the provisio that if after the explanation the poster still wants to post the proposal, it will be accepted. Proposals which have been rejected and then revised and resubmitted by the proposer will be considered as new proposals. Intent of the group: It is intended that subscribing to this group will be necessary AND sufficient to keep abreast of the status of all new group proposals, and that the volume of the group will be kept low with a high signal to noise ratio, so that almost everyone should be able to subscribe to this group (standard for the news.announce heirarchy). In order for that intention to be a success, it will be necessary to REQUIRE that all new group proposals happen via this group. People who wish to participate in or follow the discussion of a new newsgroup proposal may do so by subscribing to news.groups. To vote: Reply to this article or send mail to woods@ncar.ucar.edu. In order for a vote to count, it must be explicitly for or against THIS proposal AS STATED. Ambiguous votes will be returned. I do not guarantee to respond to comments on the proposal; I think it has been discussed to death by now. --Greg