Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alt.sysadmin.recovery
Not just another news group.  It meets #Criteria requirement 1 for notability, even though that isn't completely clear from the article.  A google search shows how much influence the newsgroup has had.  Most of the hits are talking about material covered in the newsgroup, not about the newsgroup itself, but that still counts under WEB (The content itself has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself.)  For a few examples that are perhaps amongst the more serious publications, see for eg http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/07/29/the_devolution_of_online_communities_a_case_study and some of http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=%22Alt.sysadmin.recovery&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws .  That said, WEB also says: "Wikipedia articles should not exist only to describe the nature, appearance or services a website offers, but should describe the site in an encyclopedic manner, offering detail on a website's achievements, impact or historical significance."  This needs to be done before the article can be described as good.  But the newsgroup is notable.  Regards
— [[User talk:BenAveling|Ben Aveling]], 11:41, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:WEB (Wikipedia:Notability)