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gkeck@azstarnet.com (Gary Keck) writes:

>I suggested to Starnet that they give up the "common" newsgroups like
>starnet.nightlife and call them tuc.nightlife.  (i.e. transform 
>starnet.* into tuc.*).  I suggested it would be great PR for them to
>begin/host the tucson newsgroups.

>Didn't receive one word back from them on that one.

That request really doesn't make sense... You don't rename newsgroups.
You create new news hierachies and just leave the existing groups
alone.  I suspect that the starnet.* newsgroups are internal 
newsgroups for azstarnet anyway.

If you really want to do this, you need to start from the beginning.

Create a charter for the newsgroups, their purpose, inital newsgroups,
how new newsgroups will be added/dropped etc.

Post that to az.config and news.config and see if you get any support 
for your idea.  You will need a site that is fairly well connected
to start up the newsgroups and provide feeds for them until they become
"mainstream" and get picked up by larger sites like UUNET.

As far as newsgroups go, I would start out with as few as possible until
it becomes obvious that more newsgroups are necessary based on traffic
in the existing newsgroups.

One's that I would include would be...

	tuc.config
	tuc.forsale
	tuc.general
	tuc.internet
	tuc.jobs
	tuc.test

Others might not think that even that many would be necessary.

Good luck...

>-Gary Keck, KE7DX, gkeck@azstarnet.com
>Tucson, Arizona's OTHER Natural Wonder!
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