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"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote:

I wouldn't know what are the Big Eight.

Just a reference to the basic eight hierarchies that have been around
USENET "since the beginning" so to speak. There is an element of
agreed bureaucracy associated with creating new or altering old parts
of the structure. You can find info in news.announce.newgroups with
periodical posting of FAQs there and in news.groups (also found in the
associated web sites)

For example, here's the start of the most recent posting of the FAQ
in news.announce.newgroups:
quoting
Last-modified: 2004-06-17 (revision 1.10)
Posted-by: postfaq 1.12 (Perl 5.8.4)
Archive-name: usenet/creating-newsgroups/big-eight
URL: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/big-eight.html
Posting-frequency: monthly

THE BIG EIGHT NEWSGROUP CREATION PROCESS

These guidelines document the process to create, rename, remove, or change
the moderation status of newsgroups in the Big Eight hierarchies (those
newsgroups with names starting with comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*,
rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, and talk.*). Proposals under this process must go
through a discussion phase, a voting phase, and a verification phase as
described below.

For information on how to submit a proposal and advice on working within
this process, please see the FAQs posted to news.announce.newgroups and
news.groups. [etc. etc.]
/quoting

Just in case you needed to know. ;-)



Cheers, Phred.

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LID