Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups From: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Subject: New Groups Summary Message-ID: <1992May26.151846.11562@uunet.uu.net> Followup-To: poster Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence) Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc Date: Tue, 26 May 1992 15:18:46 GMT Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net Lines: 196 The following USENET groups have passed their votes as posted here and are being newgrouped following their five day waiting period, barring any serious objection. GROUP DESCRIPTION VOTE RESULTS, ADD DATE and SUBMISSION ADDRESS ============================================================================== comp.cad.cadence Users of Cadence Design Systems products. 482:35 1 Jun An rmgroup is being sent for soc.culture.indian.american on 27 May, having failed its revote 85:173. comp.windows.ms and comp.windows.ms.programmer will be removed on 10 August. The following USENET groups have been added in the past month: GROUP DESCRIPTION VOTE RESULTS, ADD DATE and SUBMISSION ADDRESS ============================================================================== comp.bbs.waffle The Waffle BBS and USENET system on all platforms. 220:32 29 Apr rec.sport.football.australian All aspects of Australian Rules Football. 247:28 29 Apr soc.religion.bahai Discussion of the Baha'i Faith. (Moderated) 236:48 29 Apr rec.sport.swimming Training for and competing in swimming events. 197:28 3 May comp.infosystems.wais The Z39.50-based WAIS full-text search system. 291:4 3 May sci.classics Studying Classical history, languages, art and more. 159:34 3 May comp.os.os2.advocacy Supporting and flaming OS/2. 208:29 6 May comp.os.os2.networking Networking in OS/2 environments. 218:17 6 May rec.radio.broadcasting Local area broadcast radio. (Moderated) 234:34 6 May comp.dcom.cell-relay Forum for discussion of Cell Relay-based products. 220:11 10 May comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Speculation and debate about Microsoft Windows. 230:70 10 May comp.os.ms-windows.announce Announcements relating to Windows. (Moderated) 285:27 10 May comp.os.ms-windows.apps Applications in the Windows environment. 284:28 10 May comp.os.ms-windows.misc General discussions about Windows issues. 276:36 10 May comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc Programming Microsoft Windows. 229:72 10 May comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools Development tools in Windows. 239:64 10 May comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 32-bit Windows programming interfaces. 224:73 10 May comp.os.ms-windows.setup Installing and configuring Microsoft Windows. 263:46 10 May comp.windows.x.apps Getting and using, not programming, applications for X. 235:22 10 May comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Games for IBM PCs and compatibles. 516:52 12 May rec.sport.olympics All aspects of the Olympic Games. 149:37 12 May soc.penpals In search of net.friendships. 311:48 12 May comp.dcom.servers Selecting and operating data communications servers. 132:19 17 May comp.dcom.isdn The Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). 330:9 17 May comp.security.misc Security issues of computers and networks. 276:23 20 May rec.games.frp.advocacy Flames and rebuttals about various role-playing systems. 329:100 25 May rec.games.frp.announce Announcements of happenings in the role-playing world. (Moderated) 366:72 25 May rec.games.frp.archives Archivable fantasy stories and other projects. (Moderated) 357:69 25 May rec.games.frp.dnd Fantasy role-playing with TSR's Dungeons and Dragons. 357:84 25 May rec.games.frp.marketplace Role-playing game materials wanted and for sale. 348:76 25 May rec.games.frp.misc General discussions of role-playing games. 328:103 25 May sci.anthropology All aspects of studying humankind. 184:10 25 May The following groups in alternate regional hierachies have been changed in the past month. The morass of alt.* is excluded from this list. GROUP NOTES ============================================================================== bit.listserv.csg-l Control System Group Network. Added 27 Apr fj.lang.fortran Discussion about FORTRAN. Added 28 Apr fj.sys.ibmpc Discussion about IBM Personal Computers and clones. Added 28 Apr fj.sys.luna Discussion about OMRON's LUNA workstation. Added 28 Apr fj.sys.sgi Discussions about Silicon Graphics products. Added 28 Apr info.csg Removed 28 Apr, see bit.listserv.csg-l. info.gwmon Removed 28 Apr, disfunctional mailing list. info.icenet Removed 28 Apr, defunct mailing list. info.ncsa-telnet Removed 28 Apr, defunct mailing list. info.sganet Removed 28 Apr, see bit.listserv.sganet. info.suearn Removed 28 Apr, see bit.listserv.su-earn. info.utah-toolkit Removed 28 Apr, restricted access to developers. clari.news.hot.rodney_king Aftermath of the Rodney King verdict. Added 1 May fj.comp.speech Academic discussions and technical interchanges on speech processing. Added 4 May fj.rec.fine-arts Topics around fine-arts, which is visual arts. Added 4 May fj.rec.sports.basketball About basketball. Added 4 May uiuc.men News of particular interest to men on the UIUC campus. Added 4 May vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.ucx DEC's VMS/Ultrix Connection (or TCP/IP services for VMS) product. Added 4 May no.vitser Jokes in Norwegian. Added 6 May no.news Network news in Norway. Added 10 May ba.dance Dance events and interests in the Bay Area. Added 13 May bionet.xtallography Discussions about protein crystallography. Added 13 May bit.listserv.c+health Computers and Health. Added 13 May fj.lang.awk Discussion about awk. Added 15 May fj.soc.environment Talks about natural environment and society. Added 15 May vmsnet.decus.lugs Discussion of DECUS Local User Groups and related issues. Added 18 May co.media.rmn Editorials and letters from the Rocky Mt. News. Added 19 May no.news.diverse Discussion of Norwegian newsgroups, software etc. Added 20 May sfnet.tiede.astronomia T{htitieteilij|iden yhteinen ilmoitus- ja keskustelufoorumi Added 20 May bionet.plants Discussion about all aspects of plant biology. Added 21 May bit.listserv.autism Autism and Developmental Disabilities List. Added 22 May Notes: Full charters for USENET groups are included in the group creation messages which are sent by the moderator of news.announce.newgroups. Control messages are scheduled for Monday through Thursday mornings to help smooth the startup of a newsgroup among the many sites that no longer do automatic newgroups and whose administrators don't get to them manually over the weekend. Groups which have for a submission address will have the correct address listed in the group creation messages. The moderators' contact addresses for messages which are not meant to be posted is usually different from the submission address. Contact addresses are included in the group creation messages and in Gene Spafford's List of Moderators. -- (setq mail '("tale@uunet.uu.net" "uunet!tale" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))