Re: ada os newsgroup

[Tony Gair <tonygair@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Does anyone understand this,
    
> In article news:20010911092548.6a773b75.tonygair@nospam.blueyonder.co.uk
> Tsony Gair asked about setting up an Ada OS newsgroup.
> 
> Usual guidelines for a new group go as follows...
> 
> Kicked off with an RFD (REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION) a discussion period
> is entered which is to last thirty days on net news. If the discussion has
> to go on for longer it is to be continued off net news. Before these
> thirty days are up, discussion posts must be sent to
> news:news.announce.newgroups (if NNTP to this group does not work for
> particular people they may email newgroups@isc.org ) and it is allowed for
> these posts to be sent to other news groups simultaneously. The mandatory
> newsgroup is moderated (therefore posts may take some time to appear) and
> one should not post the same message to news:news.announce.newgroups and
> e.g. news:comp.lang.ada as separate posts ... they are to be crossposted
> simultaneously which would delay appearance on the unmoderated groups too.
> 
> After discussion if the proposal is still going ahead there would be a
> Call For Votes (CFV). Voting should take 21-31 days. Voting is only via
> email.
> 
> So the process will take at least about two months.
> 
> See "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup" from
> news:news.announce.newgroups etc.
> (e.g. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl1012195284d&hl=en&rnum=84&selm=nan.962619304.25162%40isc.org
> )
> and "Usenet Newsgroup Creation Companion" from news:news.answers etc.
> (e.g. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&rnum=2&selm=6cv4qi%24cf3%241%40news.ncal.verio.com
> )
> and so on.
> 
> A fairly recent botched RFD is "RFD comp.os.ose" (see criticisms from
> people who would not have used the group anyway at
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=82eaa443.0106071629.5239414e%40posting.google.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dproposed%2Bnewsgroup%2Bgroup:comp.realtime%26hl%3Den%26as_qdr%3Dy%26rnum%3D1%26selm%3D82eaa443.0106071629.5239414e%2540posting.google.com
> ) and a fairly recent RFD which actually yielded discussion is
> "RFD: comp.software.patterns" which is archived at
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=9lba0p%24jv1%241%40panix2.panix.com&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fas_oq%3Dcomp%26as_ugroup%3Dnews.groups%26as_usubject%3DRFD%26as_drrb%3Dq%26as_qdr%3Dm 
> and has been followed by a CFV: "CFV: comp.software.patterns" at
> news:1000139646.12349@isc.org and
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=news.groups&selm=1000139646.12349%40isc.org