Re: tlug: usenet news groups

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 05:38:38PM +0900, Scott Stone wrote:
> How does one go about starting a new newsgroup?  Is it just a matter of
> getting a news server to host it and propagate it to the rest of the
> world, or.. what's involved?

Do you want to be in one of the top 8 news hierarchies?  That is one of the
most asked questions on news.groups.questions.
.. http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/usenet/newgroup/
will provide you with pointers on how to greate a group in one of the top 8
hierarchies, or how to create an alt group.

Jim 

P.S. Another alternative is to create a private news server and host your
own hierarchy of groups.  Among other things this permits simple
authentication for access to selected groups.  TPC has been using this
method for a couple of years with good success.  news://news.tpc.ml.org/

-- 
Jim Tittsler, Tokyo   ICQ: 5981586


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