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From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus})
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,news.groups,alt.sex.pictures.d
Subject: Re: How do you start a new group
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Date: 29 Jan 91 19:37:54 GMT
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In article <1991Jan29.073924.23331@siesoft.co.uk> crs@siesoft.co.uk (Chris Smith) writes:
>
>I think that it is about time that there was a comp.graphics.pictures.
>
New to system, eh?  :->

Actually, there is *supposed* to be a discussion going on in news.groups 
concerning the creation of just such a group.  Discussion was initiated near 
the end of last year with an extend discussion period to compensate for the
holidays.  It seems, however, that discussion has dropped off.  

Last I remember, David M. Read had volunteered to be moderator.  We were
discussing such things as maximum volume for the group, censorship issues, and
group name.

I looked through news.groups and news.announce.newgroups but couldn't find the
list of current discussion and voting status of groups.  Was I looking in the 
wrong groups??   Anyway, I believe voting is scheduled to come up soon, as in
early February.  I think David was also the one who initiated the CFD and will
probably issue the CFV as well.

I think the biggest issue was the group name.  Rec.images wasn't supported
because many sites don't get alt.* or rec.*.  Other possibilities are
comp.images, comp.binaries.images, and comp.graphics.images.

I suppose that we should try to get the discussion going again, so people will
be aware of the upcoming vote, and vote accordingly.  I'd best go and cross-
post this to a.s.p.d as well.

When is the vote scheduled, anyway?
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