From: fsspr@acad3.alaska.edu (Sean P. Ryan, Hardcore Alaskan)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.oregon,alt.fan.tom_peterson,or.general,pdx.general,pnw.general,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Welcome to alt.culture.oregon!
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:47:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: acad3.23NOV199209471021
Reply-To: sean@freds.cojones.com
Followup-To: alt.culture.oregon
Organization: University of Fairbanks, Alaska...no wait, that's not right...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41.UAC

My apologies for taking a week to post this.  This site still refuses
to acknowledge the existence of this newsgroup, I've been busy, etc.
etc.

alt.culture.oregon is an unmoderated newsgroup which was proposed to
alt.config on 13 October.  After much fighting with a certain news
admin, it was finally newgrouped on 12 November.  So here we are.

If you are reading this in another newsgroup and do not currently have
alt.culture.oregon in the active file at your site, please ask your
news admin that this be done.  Oftentimes, this is a key factor in
determining the propagation of a newsgroup.  As well, the efforts
undertaken by the aforementioned certain news admin may have already
had effects on the propagation of this newsgroup, so your voice is
crucial in seeing that this newsgroup survives and thrives.

Now, onto the information about this newsgroup.  Rather than try to
write something up from scratch, I will simply include the texts from
the original proposal and the newgroup message.

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alt[.culture].oregon (originally proposed February 1992)
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This proposal grew out of the existence of alt.fan.tom_peterson, in the
fact that the majority of traffic on that group concerned Oregon in
general, and not just Tom Peterson.  Back in February, Tom Peterson was
going out of business, so we were looking at replacing a.f.t_p with an
Oregon newsgroup.  Well, Tom is back in business, sort of, so the group
should continue to exist, though no doubt it will continue to receive
little to no traffic.

I'll leave it to someone who actually lives in Oregon to provide a
description of what should be discussed in this newsgroup.
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From: root@freds.cojones.com (Frederick J. Polsky)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.oregon
Subject: newgroup alt.culture.oregon
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:48:10 GMT

alt.culture.oregon is an unmoderated newsgroup which was proposed in
alt.config on two occasions, most recently on 13 October of this year.  
Seeing as how there was no objection at either time, this newgroup is 
being issued for creation of the group.  For your newsgroups file:

alt.culture.oregon      Discussion about the state of Oregon

alt.culture.oregon will be for discussing issues, events, the history,
the future and the people of the state of Oregon.  Its creation came
about due to the existence of alt.fan.tom_peterson and the fact that
most of the traffic being received in a.f.t_p was actually more relevant
to a group such as this.  This group will also serve as a means for the 
large number of expatriates out there on the net to stay connected with 
their former (and perhaps again future) home.

This newgroup is being issued by the news admin here in the interest of
seeing propagation at those sites which only honor newgroups issued by
site admins.  However, queries for information should be directed to the
proposer of the group, Sean Ryan <asspr@acad3.alaska.edu>.
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I am archiving this newsgroup, and will continue to do so until it
becomes too much of a burden on my time/resources/disk space/whatever
else.  However, don't expect me to become a regular participant until
I am able to get my own feed of the newsgroup.

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Sean Patrick Ryan, Hardcore Alaskan *** This account is expiring soon;
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Newsgroups: alt.culture.oregon