Documents the process to create, rename, remove, or change the moderation status of newsgroups in the Big Eight hierarchies. Written by Russ Allbery. http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/big-eight.html
Group that administers the votes used in the Big 8 hierarchy to decide whether to create a newsgroup. Policies, vote-counting software, and status on current/upcoming/recent votes. The Big 8 is comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, an http://www.uvv.org/
Detailed explanations on "newgroup" messages for alt.* groups, the type of control message which creates a newsgroup, and the correct way to write and send them. http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/good-newgroup.html
Guide to creating Usenet groups in the alt.* hierarchy. Creating a successful alt newsgroup depends only on convincing news administrators tocarry your newsgroup. Here are tips to help you achieve this. http://www.visi.com/~barr/alt-creation-guide.html
A very detailed set of step-by-step instructions on how to create an alt.* group. Related links concerning group creation guidelines in other hierarchies and FAQs about moderated groups. http://tgos.org/newbie/newgroup.html
For those who are preparing to propose the creation or reorganization of a group in the comp, humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, or talk hierarchies (known collectively as the Big Eight). http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/usenet/newgroup/how-submit.faq
In the free.* hierarchy, anyone can set up a new group. Here are simple instructions how to create a new newsgroup in the free.uk.* hierarchy and a list of newsservers which carry the free.uk.* groups. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/rob/freefaq/fgroups.htm
Complete information on how to create newsgroups, in the Big 8 hierarchy, alt.*, and a few other assorted hierarchies. http://nnqweb.tripod.com/ncreate.html