On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Shawn McKisson wrote:
> How do I get notified of which newsgroups are up for vote? I didn't
> even know that this was occuring or I would have voted!
Well, this is all part of the standard newsgroup creation process. I
don't recall the whole process, but there is a discussion period first
(called a "RFD" -- Request For Discussion), where a newsgroup charter
is written and posted for comments, and then sometime after that the
voting begins (called a "CFV" -- Call For Votes). All throughout the
process, notices are posted in news.groups (and perhaps one or two
other news.* newsgroups) and any other newsgroups and/or mailing lists
of interest. In this case, that would be some/all of the existing
comp.lang.java.* newsgroups, and this list (and perhaps some others).
In fact, Preston did post these things to this list (maybe you weren't
on it then).
So, if you want to monitor prospective new newsgroups, you can check
out news.groups (in fact, every so often there is a posting there
about the status of new newsgroups). And very likely, information
about any prospective new newsgroups related to mailing lists you're
already on will be posted to those mailing lists.
As I said, we can take this all up in another six months :-)
(actually, the announcement I saw about the group vote failing was
about a month old, so only five months :-).
> Milt Epstein wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Mark McCarty wrote:
> >
> > > Preston, if you decide to reconsider hollar, I'll vote for a Servlet
> > > newsgroup..
> >
> > A note (I think I mentioned it in my earlier post in this thread, but
> > just in case): By Usenet rules, a failed new newsgroup vote cannot be
> > taken up again for six months. So, hold that thought :-).
> >
> > > "Preston L. Bannister" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I just went through the process needed to create the newsgroup:
> > > >
> > > > comp.lang.java.servlets
> > > >
> > > > It did not get enough votes (only 100-odd) to pass.
> > > >
> > > > This was a surprise given the traffic and number of people on this
> > > > mailing list, but apparently there is not sufficient interest to
> > > > create a newsgroup.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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