Subject: Re: Ornamental Turning NEWSGROUP

From: [email-masked] (Larry Smith)
Date: 2 Nov 1995 20:34:52 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (-W.MILLIOS) writes:

>I second this motion.  However, I know nothing about the process of
>getting a new newsgroup created.  Perhaps someone who has done it before
>can help?

To get help going through this newsgroup creation process, send email to
[email-masked] explaining exactly what the scope of your proposed
group would be.  A member of group-mentors will send you the documents you
need to read, and will help you select a name and write an RFD.

For more information: http://www.amdahl.com/ext/uvv/

-- 
Larry Smith - My opinions only. Killfile [email-masked], [email-masked]
  The attempt to justify an evil deed has  perhaps more pernicious consequences
  than the evil deed itself.  The justification of a past crime is the planting
  and cultivation of future crimes. -- Eric Hoffer  Digital Unix: 64 bit _now_.

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Brooks)
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 21:09:54 GMT

For what it's worth, a mailing list is generally easy to set up if one of
the members has a decent Internet access provider with mailing software, like
majordomo.  (At least, so I've heard.  Never ran a list, but I've subscribed
to a few and know one or two list-owners.)

Lists are good ways to handle low traffic groups.  If the traffic starts
getting out of hand, you can shift to a periodic digest.  The HPV--
Human Powered Vehicle list sends out digests daily or whenver there's
600+ lines of posts, whichever comes first.  Other groups may have had
a post every couple of weeks, while yet another group generally had
a 2000+ line daily digest.

It takes little work to set up a list (again, or so I'm told), and with
software like majordomo, it takes little effort to keep it running.  The
last list that I mentioned didn't have good software, so it took the
list owner a few hours per week to run the list, but that one had
several thousand readers.  I'd guess that an ornamental turning mail list
could be up and running with less hassle than even getting a rec.whatever
group created.

By the way, the last time I saw, you needed 100 more 'yea' votes than
'nays'.  Are there more than a couple hundered ornamental turners in the
world?  How many of them are on the net?

Pete Brooks