🚀 go-pugleaf

At the time I created ne.motss, I ran into the same question:  just what
*is* the process for creating a new ne.* newsgroup?  Answer:  there wasn't
one then, and there isn't one now.

What I did was have a discussion here (in ne.general) and collect votes
by email ballot.  I arbitrarily set the needed number of yes votes at
25, and I got them (plus one or two no votes).  The group has seen a good,
steady amount of use since it was created, and isn't anywhere near as
overwhelming as the major hierarchies.

There is one technical gotcha:  newsgroup propagation around New England
isn't all that great, and not every site got the newgroup control posting.
I did it a second time through a different path, but I'll bet there are
still some sites which don't carry all the ne.* newsgroups.

There's a periodic posting listing various ne.* newsgroups, in one of
the news.* groups, and it isn't complete.  Therefore we might want to set
up a "real" process.

-rich
P.S.  I'm *very* recently single.  My vote would be for ne.singles.  The
  term 'personals' conjures up for me an image of sleaze and one-night stands.