Directory of Newsgroup Creation Resources

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Usenet, or Netnews, is a world-wide distributed discussion system. Sites in this category explain how to create new Usenet newsgroups, or discussion fora.

Resources in This Category

• Creating an ALT newsgroup

  http://nylon.net/alt/
  A detailed guide to creating alt newsgroups. What to do and, more importantly, what not to do when creating a group.

• Free.uk.* newsgroups

  http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/rob/freefaq/fgroups.htm
  In the free.* hierarchy, anyone can set up a new group. Here are simple instructions how to create a new newsgroup in the free.uk.* hierarchy and a list of newsservers which carry the free.uk.* groups.

• Guidelines for Group Creation in the UK hierarchy

  http://www.usenet.org.uk/guidelines.html
  Newsgroup creation process within uk.*

• How To Write a Good Newgroup Message for Alt

  http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/good-newgroup.html
  Detailed explanations on "newgroup" messages for alt.* groups, the type of control message which creates a newsgroup, and the correct way to write and send them.

• So You Want to Create an Alt Newsgroup

  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-creation-guide/
  Guide to creating Usenet groups in the alt.* hierarchy. Creating a successful alt newsgroup depends only on convincing news administrators to carry the newsgroup. Written by David Barr.

• The UKVoting Home Pages

  http://www.ukvoting.org.uk/
  Describes voting procedures related to the uk.* hierarchy.

 

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