[PLUG] Re: Creating Usenet Groups and IRC channels

[jbeck@jbwd.net]

Thank you Rebecca, I will lurk around and see what I can figure out.  Seeing 
as my target audience for this is less than 45 people, maybe just running my 
own server for the purpose is my best bet.  By the way, what do you mean by 
"big 8"? (just curious!  :-) 

Rebecca Ore writes: 

> On Sat, 02 Feb 2002, jbeck@jbwd.net wrote: 
>
> > Hi everyone,  
> >
> > Can someone explaing in as much detail as possible what is involved in 
> > creating a UseNet group as well as an IRC channel (similiar to what PLUG 
> > has)?  This is slightly off-topic, but I am hoping someone here is familiar 
> > with how to do it. 
>
> To get information about creating an alt.*, go to alt.config and lurk for a
> while until you see urls pointing to FAQs on alt.* group creation.  Also, lurk
> for a while to see what the weather is like in that group.  For a Big Eight
> group, lurk in news.groups for a while -- it's a lot more formal. 
>
> Creating an alt.* group really only requires sending a control message and
> getting hundreds of your friends to ask their providers to carry it.  Sending
> the control message is easy -- promoting the group to all of Usenet isn't so
> easy. 
>
> If you want to run a server for friends and not distribute the group, you can
> install INN or a lighter weight news server and allow people to log on to your
> machine as news readers (this does *not* give them shell access). 
>
> You could even exchange self-created hieararchy with other small sites. 
>
> Nothing needed for this other than a machine that's on line and accessible
> through port 119. 
>
> Or talk someone else into running a server or private group on an already
> existing server for you. 
>
> Think of Usenet as something more permanent than IRC -- alt.* groups never die,
> they collect spam.  Big Eight groups require showing by voting that there's
> significant interest in the group among people who use Usenet (mailing lists on
> the topic aren't relevant). 
>
> --
> Rebecca Ore
> http://www.ogoense.net 
>
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