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• Big-8 Management FAQ
  ...n the task of rethinking how to manage the [[Checkgroups|official list for Big-8 newsgroups]]. ...Board to make suggestions about how to revise the management of the [[big8|Big-8 newsgroup hierarchies.]] After a year on probation, the [[n.a.n.]] moderat
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• Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
  == Big-8 management == *[[Big-8 Management FAQ|FAQ: Big-8 Hierarchy Management]]
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• Responsibilities of proponents
  == Who is this FAQ for? == == Isn't a FAQ supposed to be Question-and-Answer? ==
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• What is Usenet?
  The [[Big-8 Usenet hierarchies]] are only a small part of Usenet--currently 1992 out of ...it as a guide to what gets carried on their machines. All that the Big-8 Management Board can do is to make up the list of groups that we think should be used
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• Other Usenet Hierarchies
  * Each of the subsets of the Big-8 is a hierarchy (comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, ...r talk, then it is in a different hierarchy outside the scope of the Big-8 Management Board.
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• News.groups
  .... It is a group that has been in long existence and there are innumerable FAQ's that reference it by name. It may continue to be used by those who do no ** evaluating proposals, policies, and changes regarding the Big-8 newsgroup hierarchies.
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• News FAQ (periodic posting)
  Subject: [FAQ] Creating and removing newsgroups in the Big-8 Hierarchies From: board@big-8.org (The Big-8 Management Board)
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• Nan-2012-11-17-rfd-comp.sys.apple2.comm
  From: board@big-8.org (Big 8 Management Board) Message-ID: <1ktp830.1fiuara9t0glkN%board@big-8.org>
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• Types of Proposals That Are Discouraged
  * groups outside the Big-8 hierarchy; ...y named, moderated binary group under *.binaries (see the [[Binary problem|FAQ about the crackdown on binary newsgroups]]);
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• Charters
  ...um]] for links to the charter repository, such as it is, for each of the [[Big-8]] hierarchies. The Big-8 never had a repository and machinery to administer
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• News service providers
  Please [mailto:board@big-8.org contact us] to correct or expand the lists on this page. |[http://www.ngprovider.com/ NGProvider FAQ]
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• Glossary
  == Big-8 == ...all subset of [[usenet|Usenet]]. Newsgroups in the [[History of the Big-8|Big-8]] begin with one of the following components:
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• Changes in ISP Usenet Policies (2008)
  | [http://help.comcast.net/content/faq/Does_Comcast_offer_a_newsgroups_service dropping Usenet entirely] ...3-9964895-38.html CNET News])--Verizon will provide only newsgroups in the Big-8 plus its own hierarchy.
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• Questions Frequently Asked by New Newsgroup Users
  * The history of the [[big-8]], which played a major role in the history of Usenet. * Each of the subsets of the Big-8 is a hierarchy (comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*,
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• Newsgroup Creation FAQ
  == Creating New Newsgroups FAQ == * The [[b8mb|Big-8 Management Board]]. There is no longer a public vote on newsgroup proposals.
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• Big-8 Management FAQ
  ...n the task of rethinking how to manage the [[Checkgroups|official list for Big-8 newsgroups]]. ...Board to make suggestions about how to revise the management of the [[big8|Big-8 newsgroup hierarchies.]] After a year on probation, the [[n.a.n.]] moderat
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• Moderator Vacancy Investigations
  ...s add a few unique problems to the issues mentioned in the [[Group Removal FAQ]]. ...ially not by posting messages with a forged approval. And the [[b8mb|Big-8 Management Board]] is not a super-moderator above all others.
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• How the Management of the Big-8 Developed
  The [[Big-8 Management Board]] oversees eight [http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/usenet-hier.html|m These are known as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_8_%28Usenet%29 "Big-8 hierarchies."]
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• Moderated Newsgroups
  ...ent, the outgoing moderator might inform the [mailto:board@big-8.org Big-8 Management Board] about the change in moderators. It is the ISC, not the Board, that ;Policy in the Big-8
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• Content and Format of a Request for Discussion (RFD)
  * The name must begin with one of the branches of the big-8: comp, rec, humanities, sci, talk, soc, misc, news. * See [[Checkgroups]] for a list of all Big-8 newsgroups. Something on that list may help you develop a good name for th
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• Big-8 Usenet hierarchies
  ...ed States flavor. This dual nature reflects the historical origins of the Big-8, and the relatively large share of native English speakers who live in the The newsgroups that form the Big-8 hierarchies use the following naming prefixes:
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