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From: edhew@xenitec.uucp (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Starting a new discussion area
Summary: new group initialization
Message-ID: <1989Sep2.053023.6224@xenitec.uucp>
Date: 2 Sep 89 05:30:23 GMT
References: <868@dutrun.UUCP>
Reply-To: edhew@xenitec.UUCP (Ed Hew)
Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
Organization: Xenitec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON
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In article <868@dutrun.UUCP> winffww@dutrun.UUCP (Folkert W. Wierda) writes:

>If the call for votes succeeds, who starts this discussion area? If
>it is us, how do we do this?

Traditionally, it's the party who proposed the group in the first place.
I however don't recall ever seeing any written guideline on this, so in
practice it seems to be whoever posts the first article.

>Are there any additional costs connected with starting a new discussion
>area, other than the normal costs connected with using RN/Usenet?

Your time.	1/2 :-)		You'll spend a lot more of that.

>Folkert W. Wierda                                winffww@dutrun.UUCP

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