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From: david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes)
Newsgroups: ont.general,tor.general
Subject: Re: New newsgroup proposed - ont.unix-unanimous
Keywords: new group
Message-ID: <3191@geac.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 12:17:12 GMT
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In article <320@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>This is an invitation for discussion on a new newsgroup, ont.unix-unanimous.
>

This is not a direct comment about ont.unix-unanimous, but, one about
procedure. There seems to be a large body of folks who want to set up
news groups without showing the kind of volume that justifies the
setting up of a newsgroup. (remember ont.singles - what???) 

I think that we might want to have a policy about the setting up of a
new newsgroup. Maybe modelled after the US USENET policy.

Their policy (paraphrased) is:

	1. Find a newsgroup that is close to what you want
	   to talk about.

	2. Post there for about 3 months.

	3. If, over the 3 months, you can show *sustained*
	   volume and a true divergence from that newgroup,
	   request to have a new newgroup created.

In this case, perhaps posting the articles that would have gone to
ont.unix-unanimous to ont.general for a while would suffice.

On the other hand, if you are taking an established mail list over
to the news, perhaps you need only show the last three months of
volume for the mail list.

I was facing a similar situation with the Canadian X Software Repository,
in that it could become a newsgroup or a mail list. The final decision
was to become a mail list until I could show sufficient volume to become
a newsgroup. This has not happened yet -- aside from my erratic postings
of Canadian X Notes, there have only been two user-generated postings.

Opinions?

-david-

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