Re: This is a SIG for Apple2, HELLO McFLY!!!

[greg@apple2.com]

In article <38B53D2C.36E4E0DD@NOSPAMappple2.com>,
delfs@apple2.com wrote:

> Anyone know where I can find a moderated SIG for Apple2 where it'll stay
> mostly on topic and where they dump the flames/offtopic messages?

Actually, fellow Lincolnite, these are newsgroups, not SIGs[1].  If you 
can gain enough support, write up a proposal in RFD form for 
comp.sys.apple2.moderated to news.announce.newgroups, hold a 20 day 
discussion in news.groups, and hold a 20 day vote on the proposal.  To 
create the group, you will need a 2/3rd majority in favor and 100 more 
YES votes than NO votes.

Oh, you'll also have to pick a moderator before the vote who will 
effectively hold the position for life and who, if he becomes absent, 
will cause the death of discussion in the group.  Consider that 
comp.sources.apple2, a moderated group, is dead and gone and that 
comp.binaries.apple2 still exists because it is not moderated and so was 
not rmgrouped by the mad comp.* moderated group rmgrouper.

I strongly recommend you read news.groups for a few months to get a feel 
for the process.

[1] On Usenet, "sig" is short for "signature" and is not an abbreviation 
for "Special Interest Group".

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