Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CALL FOR LOCAL DISCUSSION: Split the c.s.a group more? Message-ID: <1990Oct17.191946.23233@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 17 Oct 90 19:19:46 GMT References: <1990Oct17.023230.2707@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 25 md41@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Marcus Dolengo) writes: >So like when do the voting starts? Creation of new/replacement newsgroups is a very formal process, and involves the whole of USENet. There is a formal CALL FOR DISCUSSION (CFD) to the newsgroup news.announce.newgroups, a three week minimum discussion period, a formal CALL FOR VOTES to n.a.n, a three week minimum voting period, a VOTING RESULTS posting to n.a.n, a five day grace period for complaints, and then the moderator of n.a.n will send out news.control newgroup messages for the groups whose votes passed and rmgroup messages for the ones superseded. There are also moderator and other delays of up to six weeks built into the process. Patience, please. I've done this before, so has Peter da Silva. You're looking at mid-January at the earliest. If we have come to some warm fuzzy agreements here within the next couple of weeks, roughly around the first of the month I will draft and post to n.a.n for moderator approval the CFD for the changes. At that point, the discussion will shift from c.s.a to news.groups. When it does, please _don't_ say again everything "you" said here unless people outside the Amiga community start getting hostile and need a show of support. It would be best if the news.groups discussion were muted, which is why I started the process here. Kent, the man from xanth.