On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Steve Nickolas wrote:
No, plenty of new newsgroups have been created in the past decade. At some point, I'm not sure of the exact date, they changed the process, so it's a ocmmittee that decides, no voting, no need to get votes. You do have to "prove" (it seems a fairly vague process) that there is a need for such a newsgroup, people who make the effort to go to the proper newsgroup and say they'd use it. Unless the RFD has faults, the process actually happens pretty fast, either creating the newsgroup or rejecting it.On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, osgeld wrote:I find it amusing its taken less time to ratify this group than it has for me to get my already paid for piI lol'd. Isn't it like the first new non-alt.* newsgroup in like over a decade or something?
At the same time, the committee has been going through the existing newsgroups, culling out the ones that havent' seen use in a long time.
Michael