From: lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)
Subject: Re: Startup question
Organization: Netcom; Renegade User
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 06:36:28 GMT

In article <Bz41zn.3uy@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> conner@qucis.queensu.ca (Mike Conner) writes:
>How did you start this group up?  Where do I get info. on starting a new
>REC group.  Right now we are having posting problems with an ALT (yuck)
>group and want to convert to a REC group.  The group in question is
>alt.dragons-inn.  Probably never herd of it but thats o.k.
>
>Please, the person who set this group up could you get back to me
>with as much info as possible.  Maybe there is a FAQ, I'm no sure.

 
    ][ guess that's me.  (:  There's no FAQ for this group, though
 it'd probably be nice if someone started one.  I've already said
 that that someone isn't going to be me, though!  I've got enough
 on my hands as it is, along with wanting to work on things like
 my Conbattler rules, etc.  (BTW, new idea I had today for
 Conbattler: individual unit Overburns, a la lance-level Overburns
 in BattleForce -- extra movement, extra strength, but oh what a
 price!)
    ___ 
     |o start up a group in one of the "big seven" hierarchies
 (comp, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, talk) you have to go get a copy
 of the post entitled "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup" from
 news.announce.newgroups and follow the directions contained in it.
 Basically, it's:
 
 1) Post a Request For Discussion (RFD) in news.announce.newgroups,
    news.groups, and all of the relevant Usenet newsgroups that the new
    group would effect.
 2) Wait 21-30 days and get input on the RFD, posted in news.groups.
 3) Post a Call For Votes (CFV) in the same places you posted the RFD.
 4) Collect votes for 21-30 days.
 5) Post the results in the same places you posted the RFD and CFV.
 6) Wait 5 days to allow any errors to be fixed.
 7) Hold your breath and wait for the moderator of news.announce.newgroups
    to send out the "newgroup" message to the whole civilized world.
 
    ]['d suggest that anyone who's interested in creating a new group
 in the aformentioned "big seven" hierarchies should monitor the
 messages coming through in news.announce.newgroups and news.groups for
 at least two weeks, if not a month or two (the longer, the better) to
 see just what it entails.  You'll also get to see what a royal pain
 it can be.  (:
 
    ][f you'd like, I could e-mail you a copy of the "How to Create a
 New Usenet Newsgroup" post.  Send me e-mail if you want it.

 BTW:  Yes, I have heard of alt.dragons-inn.
 

>Thanks for your help.  

 
    |\|o prob.
 

>P.S. By the way when I finished BattleTech and sent away for the FASA
>     miniature they sent me 10 (that's TEN) by mistake.  I have given
>     away most of them but still have a few left over.  The person with
>     the most helpful info. will have one sent to them $0.00.
>     Now that's insentive if I've ever heard one.  Thanks again :)
>-Mike
 
 
    ]-[mm, sounds interesting....  (:

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