Re: an Idea for a new WWW disc. group

Ari Lemmke <arl@cs.hut.fi>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1993 23:15:54 +0200
Message-id: <199302042115.AA04807@deathstar.cs.hut.fi>
From: Ari Lemmke <arl@cs.hut.fi>
Sender: arl@cs.hut.fi
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: an Idea for a new WWW disc. group
In-reply-to: <10E423B850A00218@SCS.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
References: <10E423B850A00218@SCS.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: <arl@cs.hut.fi>
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
"Tony Johnson (415) 926 2278" writes:
> >	comp.infosystems.www
> >	comp.infosystems.www.implementation
> 
> Sounds great to me....does anyone understand the formal 
> procedure for going about creating a new comp.* newsgroup? How 
> do we start?

	1)	Someone has to write RFD (Request For Discussion) for
		c.i.w and c.i.w.i
	2)	post it to announce-newgroups@rpi.edu (or post it
		to moderated newsgroup news.announce.newgroups.
		Remember to add before your RFD text all the
		newsgroups you want the article to appear if
		you email it.
	3)	The discussion period is about 30 days, and
		should be in news.groups newsgroup.
	4)	Then if it's clear that such a newsgroup should
		be available you can write CFV (Call For Voting)
	5)	Take care you have other person as vote-taker,
		so you can make propaganda for your group (other
		than RFD ;-).
	6)	The voting period is 21-31 days.
	7)	When the group passes, it takes 7 days until the
		group is created.
	8)	If the group does _not_ pass the next voting is
		allowed after 6 months.

	Material used for comp.os.linux saved in directory
	nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/doc/news/create_docs
	use FTP, gopher, or WWW (?). Or just read news.* groups
	to find out how they do it ...

	Someone should put under WWW "How to create a new newsgroups"
	etc. docs .. ;-)

	Just do it !!! ;-)

> TJ

	arl