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...history is [[Big-8_Usenet_hierarchies#History_of_news.groups|in the group-history section]].'' ...new newsgroups. Its purpose remained unchanged until the establishment of news.groups.proposals.

...s.proposals}}. You can find general information about this newsgroup on [[news.groups.proposals|its web page]]. == What's wrong with discussing proposals for new groups in news.groups? ==

...com/%7Ejosephb/newsgroups/history/guidelines/revisions.txt Joe Bernstein's history]: This document explicitly appeals to the authority of the Backbone and

== First Draft of Proposal Guidelines ''(superseded)'' == Note that the Board will not be accepting all of these types of proposals at this time. See below for more details.

...Usenet_newsgroup newsgroups] are added, removed, or modified by the action of the Big-8 Management Board. In unmanaged hierarchies, the control messages ...stable and suitable for most Usenet sites."[http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/39ab0e96ed0530e8?hl=en|*]

As of January 2011, there are about 1000 groups that received less than one post *Flooding news.announce.newgroups and news.groups.proposals with hundreds of almost identical posts will do no good.

The newsgroup news.groups.proposals is for the announcement, discussion, and development of proposals for changes to the Big 8 hierarchies, as

== Identity and Structure of the Board == ...text]] to see the list of members on the Board. We've been given the task of rethinking how to manage the [[Checkgroups|official list for Big-8 newsgrou

...uscott and Jim Ellis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Usenet invent a method of sharing news]. ...ton Mark Horton] creates net.announce, the [http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/msg/758b2dd9c67f8fab?dmode=source first moderated newsgroup].

...a collection of international discussion newsgroups covering a wide range of topics organized in eight hierarchies. Discussion is primarily in English, ...flects the historical origins of the Big-8, and the relatively large share of native English speakers who live in the United States.

* Read this FAQ. There is a wealth of information here and if you follow the suggestions things will go more smoo * The topic of the newsgroup is important; if no one wants to talk about it, there will be

* A hierarchy is an ordered list of newsgroups. * Each of the subsets of the Big-8 is a hierarchy (comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.

The main purpose of the Great Renaming was to separate the fluff from the computer and science groups, so that distribution of groups could be better

* The material on this page is a draft. Elements of this draft may change as the Board learns from experience what are the best ...ide enough information for interested parties to understand the background of the group or groups to be removed as well as to see what cogent reasons the

* A [[newsreader]] is a piece of software that lets users look in the newsgroup, sort the posts that are the * The totality of all news servers that provide newsgroups.

* The name must begin with one of the branches of the big-8: comp, rec, humanities, sci, talk, soc, misc, news. ...posed name will be evaluated for how well the new group fits into the list of other newsgroups.