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Is there an official authority for the balt.* groups?  I recall someone
proposing a set of rules for getting new balt.* groups created, but it was
so drawn out and formal, there would have never been any new groups added,
if for no other reason that not enough people read balt.config to
comment/vote on proposals. 

It would seem to me that the best way to get new balt.* groups added is to
convince anyone with a news server to add the group locally, and then post
an announcement on balt.general.  If there's enough interest, customers of
ISPs will demand that the new "balt.whatever" group be added to their
server, and then the messages will propagate.  I believe this is how
balt.music was formed, as no "newgroup" message was propagated for the
official creation of that group.

Paul Garcia <garciap@attach.net> wrote:
: The problem with setting up a newsgroup is that you need some provider
: to agree to be the source/carrier of the newsgroup.  I doubt that UMBC
: would be willing to support such a group.  You'd need to find a real
: internet provider that allows that direct access to open newsfeed or 
: maybe one of the public newsfeed sources could be convinced to carry 
: your group.  Probably no provider outside Maryland would consider 
: carrying a balt.personals group and most ISPs charge a fee to carry a
: group.  Good Luck!
: 
: --Paul
: 
: 
: M.T.M wrote:
: > 
: > I was wondering why a personals newsgroup has not been established in
: > 'balt.'???  Seems like it wouldn't be to difficult for one to be set > up.
: