Re: ada os newsgroup

[Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org (Colin Paul Gloster)]

In article news:20010911092548.6a773b75.tonygair@nospam.blueyonder.co.uk
Tony 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