Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 14274
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6/30    How do you start a newsgroup: ucb.os.microsoft.sucks
        \_ http://www.net.berkeley.edu/dcns/usenet/ucbcreate.html but try
           "ucb.flame.os.nt" or "ucb.os.nt.critics" or something.
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This can cover a spectrum of things from activities, politics, classes, leisure and forsale/wanted. A newsgroup can be targeted at the campus at large, or be used as just a discussion group for a research group in a department. Three things are needed to set up a ucb group: * a reason * a name * demand A reason can be pretty much anything non-frivolous. As long as it somehow relates to UCB, be it an organization, activity, or current event, it could get a newsgroup. The name should also be descriptive, that is the user should be able to tell the subject matter of the group just from its name. As far as demand or the need for a newsgroup is concerned, we'll generally take your word on it.