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Also known as: creating a newsgroup
The process of adding a group to the network. In the Big 8 it runs through a Request for Discussion, a comment period, a vote, and finally a newgroup control message from the management board. In alt.* there is no formal procedure at all: anyone may issue the control message and each administrator decides whether to honor it, which is why many alt groups exist on only a few servers.
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