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From: bowen@mira.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Devon Bowen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: WHY no COMP.BINARIES.CBM ?????
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Date: 9 Sep 89 17:55:04 GMT
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In article <6643@max.u.washington.edu>, scott@max.u.washington.edu writes:
> From where those that support must come from? Do we have any input in
> that support?

To get an "official" backbone group created you must first post to news.groups
explaining that you would like a new group, why the new group is needed, what
the group will be used for and what you'd like to call it. You then open the
issue for discussion. After about a month of letting all the readers there
scream at you about how the name is bad and how the group isn't needed, you
post a formal proposal which is a modification of your original post with any
new ideas that have been suggested during the month of discussion. Then you
have a call for votes. At this time you start collecting votes (by mail) either
for or against the group. If, after 1 month, you have 100 more yes votes than
no votes, the group becomes official and is created by a backbone site. Of
course, you have to post who voted yes and no so it may be verified.

This was tried about a year back. I think it was Ray that tried it. But it
didn't get the support it needed. Anybody can propose a group. You can try
again if you'd like by just following the above procedure. But be prepared to
get flamed heavily on news.groups...

Devon