Addition of other newsgroups to the central news service Proposed by faculty, staff, or student and submitted to the central server administrator. Information Technology will make available electronic instructions on how to submit a request. Application must specify audience, retention time for articles and lifetime of group. Application is reviewed by the central server administrator for special considerations relating solely to resource use. The application may be modified to conserve resources.
Application is reviewed and approved or rejected.
If approved, central news server administrator takes steps to obtain and post the newsgroup. Lifetimes of newsgroups Newsgroups that are requested for use in particular courses will be removed from the central news service shortly after the end of the course. Similar lifetimes can be set for other categories of newsgroups. The central server administrator defines the default retention period for articles posted to newsgroups. As articles in the newsgroup age to beyond that period, they are deleted from the server.