🚀 go-pugleaf

>>- Waar zou ik een samenvatting kunnen vinden over de Belgische
>>nieuwsgroepen? (be. is mij bekend)
>>- Weet iemand welke procedure moet gevolgd worden om een Belgische
>>nieuwsgroep te starten? In welke nieuwsgroep kan men deze informatie
>vinden?

De volgende informatie is bijna twee jaar oud,
ik weet niet of die nog van toepassing is:
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OPRICHTEN NIEUWSGROEP IN DE BE.* HIERARCHIE

People wishing to create a new newsgroup in the be-hierarchy, should follow the following procedure:

First, publish an RFD (Request for Discussion).  In this, you discuss your arguments for creating the newsgroup.  The procedure is described  below.



 --------------- The RFD (Request For Discussion) ---------------

 For an RFD of a certain newsgroup, the following holds:


RFD-1
It has to be posted in be.announce, so that everyone can be  notified.  There is no objection to cross-posting; this is possible by specifying a list of newsgroups in the 'Newsgroups'
headerline, eg.:

 		Newsgroups: be.announce,be.misc

By using a 'Followup-To:' headerline, followups should be directed to be.misc by preference, eg.:

Followup-To: be.misc


RFD-2
A so-called 'charter' needs to be declared, i.e. a description of the content of the newsgroup to be created.  It would be nice if the 'charter' is already composed before the start of the RFD.
Also, a short one-line description needs to be determined, eg:

be.test		For testing news software configurations	

If the newsgroup has to be moderated, a moderator has to be appointed and available.

RFD-3
During the RFD, which is at least 10 days, the name of the newsgroup needs to be determined.  If there is no consensus within two weeks about the name of the newsgroup, the discussion
regarding the name of the newsgroup has to be continued by e-Mail.  As soon as consensus is reached, a new RFD has to be started.

There are some restrictions on the name of a newsgroup.  A name component may not be longer than 14 characters.  A name component consisting solely of digits is not allowed; capitals are not allowed, and only '+', '-' and '_' are allowed as punctuation
marks.



RFD-4
If there are no serious objections against the RFD concerning this newsgroup-to-be, a vote concerning the creation of this newsgroup can be held.  This is called the 'Call For Votes' (CFV).


------------------- The CFV (Call For Votes) -------------------

A volunteer for the CFV votetaking has to be found.

If a consensus is reached about the name of the newsgroup to be created (through a succesfull RFD), a vote concerning the creation can be held through a CFV.  For this, a mail-address
needs to be found or created, to which votes can be sent.  Always verify whether the mail address works *BEFORE* the start of the voting period.

For a CFV of a certain newsgroup, the following holds:


CFV-1
See RFD-1.


CFV-2
The following has to be mentioned in the CFV:
- The 'charter' of the newsgroup, eg. the purpose of the newsgroup   (see RFD-2);
- The start of the voting period
- The end of the voting period
- The mail address to which the votes can be sent and the way one can vote either in favour of
  or against.

CFV-3
The voting office will be opened either 2 or 3 weeks.


CFV-4
For each week during the voting period, an appeal for convincing those who have not yet voted to vote, may be posted.

At the second and following voting appeals, a list of votes has to be included (obviously without their votes).




CFV-5
After the end of the voting period, the result of the vote has to be posted in be.announce (Again, there is no objection to cross-posting). Again, make sure followups are sent to be.misc.
 	
The NO-voters, the YES-voters and the result need to be clearly mentioned.

The voting result has to be made public within 5 days after the end of the voting period.  For each day exceeding this limit, the objection period is extended with two days.  If the
result isn't posted after 3 weeks, the vote is declared
negative, and CFV-7 holds.



CFV-6
After the posting of the CFV result a period of at least 5 days needs to be taken into account, in which objections can be made concerning the result.


CFV-7
If the result of the CFV is positive (see CFV-8) for the newsgroup to be created, the results (see CFV-5) have to be mailed to <newgroup@innet.be>, together with a request to
honor the result of the CFV.

If the voting turns out negative for the creation of the newsgroup, a vote for an equally named newsgroup cannot be issued within the 6 following months.


CFV-8
The criteria for creating a new be-newsgroup are:
- There have to be at least 30 more YES-voters than NO-voters.
- At least 2/3 of the voters needs to have voted YES.

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