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news.announce.newgroups (n.a.n) is a moderated announcement group used by the [[b8mb|Big-8 Management board]] to publish [[RFD|Requests for Discussion]], to report results of votes, and to make information about the Board's operation available as needed.
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'''{{news|news.announce.newgroups}}''' (n.a.n) is a moderated announcement group.
It was [http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/e464008f22c5d615 created in August 1989] as a special venue for circulation of new newsgroup proposals, calls for votes, and results of votes in the Big 7 newsgroup hierarchies. In 1995, the Big 7 became the Big 8.


[news:news.announce.newgroups Link to news:news.announce.newgroups,] if you have a properly configured [[newsreaders|newsreader.]]
Since 2006, the Big 8 are managed by a [[Main Page|Board]] and calls for votes have been replaced by [[Final RFD / Last Call for Comments|Last Calls for Comments]].


[http://groups.google.com/group/news.announce.newgroups/topics?hl=en Access n.a.n via Google Groups.]
As a general rule, posts made to n.a.n have followups set to {{news|news.groups.proposals}}, a moderated group [ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/news/news.groups.proposals created in November 2006].  


[[Category:Big-8 Management]]
== Moderators ==
 
* [[User:Tristan Miller|Tristan Miller]]
* [[User:Jason Evans|Jason Evans]]
* [[User:Rayner Lucas|Rayner Lucas]]
* [http://www.panix.com/~pschleck/ Paul Schleck]
 
To contact the moderators, e-mail [mailto:news-announce-newgroups-request@panix.com news-announce-newgroups-request@panix.com].
 
== Further information ==
 
* [[Signing key for news.announce.newgroups]]
 
[[Category:news.announce.newgroups|news.announce.newgroups]]

Latest revision as of 15:59, 10 November 2020

news.announce.newgroups news.announce.newgroups on Google Groups (n.a.n) is a moderated announcement group. It was created in August 1989 as a special venue for circulation of new newsgroup proposals, calls for votes, and results of votes in the Big 7 newsgroup hierarchies. In 1995, the Big 7 became the Big 8.

Since 2006, the Big 8 are managed by a Board and calls for votes have been replaced by Last Calls for Comments.

As a general rule, posts made to n.a.n have followups set to news.groups.proposals news.groups.proposals on Google Groups, a moderated group created in November 2006.

Moderators

To contact the moderators, e-mail news-announce-newgroups-request@panix.com.

Further information