spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (05/09/88)
This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to this
group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. New users may ignore
this posting -- it is intended to enable experienced users
to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents.
*** old/howto.n Mon Nov 2 16:12:18 1987
--- src/howto.n Sun May 8 23:34:33 1988
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Original-from: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 31 October 1987 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
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Original-from: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 14 April 1988 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
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"alt" and "bionet") may be different and you should consult readers and
! admins in those groups for information specific to those groups.
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"alt" and "bionet") may be different and you should consult readers and
! admins in those groups for information specific to those groups. Also
! note that these are general *guidelines* -- there is no guarantee that
! any site will ever issue or honor a "newgroup" request for any group,
! even if all these guidelines are followed. In particular, problems of
! legality, volume and taste may keep some groups from being created in
! the regular newsgroup hierarchy at many (or most) sites, no matter what
! the perceived support; in general, such groups can be created in the
! alternate distributions without any such trouble.
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a group or mailing list, try using it before attempting to create a new
! group -- it might be just what you want.
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a group or mailing list, try using it before attempting to create a new
! group -- it might be just what you want. Also determine if there are
! potential objections to the creation of the group based on common sense,
! good taste, or possible legal difficulties -- such groups are best
! left as mailing lists or semi-private hierarchies.
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should be informative, reasonably short, and in an appropriate
! top-level hierarchy. Also determine if you want the newsgroup to be
! moderated or not.
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should be informative, reasonably short, and in an appropriate
! top-level hierarchy. The name should directly describe the purpose and
! content of the proposed group, to aid new readers in selecting it.
! Also determine if you want the newsgroup to be moderated or not.
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needed and/or interesting, and what you think it should be named. Ask
! for comments to be posted and for votes to be *MAILED* to you. Be sure
! to cross-post your article to any newsgroups where there might be
! interest, but set the "Followup-to" header so that responses only
! go to the "news.groups" group.
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needed and/or interesting, and what you think it should be named. Ask
! for comments to be posted and discussed. Be sure to cross-post your
! article to any newsgroups where there might be interest, but set the
! "Followup-to" header so that responses only go to the "news.groups"
! group.
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5) Collect MAILED votes on the issue of the new newsgroup. The
! threshold currently set as necessary for creating a new group is 100
! more "yes" votes than "no" votes in a 30 day period.
a) If you get at least 100 more "yes" votes than "no" votes,
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5) Collect MAILED votes on the issue of the new newsgroup. The
! threshold currently set as necessary to suggest creating a new group is
! 100 more "yes" votes than "no" votes in a 30 day period.
a) If you get at least 100 more "yes" votes than "no" votes,
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will ignore the group unless the control message originates from one of
! the known backbone admins (usually one of: spaf@arthur.cs.purdue.edu,
! mark@cbosgd.att.com, rick@uunet.uu.net, woods@hao.ucar.edu or
fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu). If the group is moderated, be sure to
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will ignore the group unless the control message originates from one of
! the known backbone admins (usually one of: news or spaf@cs.purdue.edu,
! mark@stargate.com, rick@uunet.uu.net, woods@ncar.ucar.edu or
fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu). If the group is moderated, be sure to
--
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf