🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <D0tzzq.En2@chaos.magibox.net>, goldlink@baste.magibox.net (Gold Link) writes:
>i would like to know if there is enough interest in the discussion of 
>fine gold jewelry\loose diamonds or colored stones to start a group.
>if there is a proceedure to follow please advise.

rec.crafts.jewelry already exists.

The bit* hierarchy is for creating a newsgroup to be gated to an existing
mailing list--so some people will use the mailing list and others the
newsgroup.

To create a comp, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, or talk newsgroup:

A RFD (Request for Discussion) is presented to news.announce.newgroups
and discussion is held in news.groups. After a month of discussion a
CFV (Call for Votes) is issued. To win the proposal must have 100 more
YES votes than NO votes and two/thirds of the votes must be YES.
See the articles "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup" and "Usenet 
Newsgroup Creation Companion", in news.announce.newusers, news.answers, 
news.groups

If they're not there, they've probably expired at your site, and will 
be reposted later. They can be gotten by sending mail to
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu, with a blank subject line, and with one or more
of the following commands in the message body: 

send usenet/news.groups/How_to_Create_a_New_Usenet_Newsgroup
send usenet/news.groups/Usenet_Newsgroup_Creation_Companion

You get them via anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu.  The path names are as 
given above, but with "pub/" before "usenet". Frequently this site is
difficult to connect to because it's too busy.

To create an alt group:

A proposal is discussed in alt.config. After the discussion is finished
(and there is general support) a newgroup message to create the group must
be sent out. You can: 1. Ask the news administrator at your site to do
this (he/she can be usually be reached by mailing to the address news
or usenet; if not mail to the technical support people at the site) or
2. Post a request in alt.config that someone newgroup the group (someone
will if the discussion has been positive about the proposal).

See the guide "So You Want to Create an Alt Newsgroup" posted every
14 days to alt.config, alt.answers, news.answers.  You can get a copy of 
it on the World Wide Web at:

http://www.pop.psu.edu/~barr/alt-creation-guide.html

or

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/alt.config/So_You_Want_to_Create_an_Alt_Newsgroup

You can also get a copy by sending e-mail to "majordomo@pop.psu.edu"
with the line "get file alt-creation-guide" in the body of the
message.  (The Subject is ignored)


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