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From: louie@SAYSHELL.UMD.EDU ("Louis A. Mamakos")
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Date: 13 Jun 90 19:28:32 GMT
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You seem to be confused.

When someone mentioned setting up a mailing list, they meant a discussion
group to talk about the topic you proposed.  It certainly does not mean a
list of people who happened to be fool enough to comment on your posting
in comp.protocols.tcpip.

This is not how a new newsgroup is created.  You should probably post a
note in news.group, and I'm sure someone will tell you what the proper 
procedure is.  Usually an announcement is made, discussion follows, and then
a call for votes is taken.  These votes are usually collected by some 
neutral party.  There's a good reason for that; for example you thought that
I was somehow in favor of such a newsgroup; I am NOT.

There are rules which determine what a "passing" vote for a newsgroup are.  I
believe that you need 100 more "YES" votes than "NO" votes.  I'm probably
wrong or mistaken.  If you really want to pursue this folly, I suggest that
you do it in the correct forum, which is most definately NOT the comp.protocols.
tcpip newsgroup/TCP-IP@NIC.DDN.MIL mailing list. 

Again, for the record, I'm against a newsgroup.  Existing newsgroup should be
used to discuss this sort of thing unless the traffic is too heavy to bear or
wanders from the scope of the newsgroup.

louie