Creating a New Newsgroup

The newsgroup creation process varies greatly from one netnews hierarchy to the next. Jon Bell has written Creating New Newsgroups, a general guide on newsgroup creation. See also the following resources:

In the "Big Eight" hierarchy (comp, humanities, misc, news, sci, rec, soc, and talk):
In the "alt" hierarchy:
- So You Want to Create an Alt Newsgroup
- Emily Postnews answers your questions on how to create a new alt group
In the "can" hierarchy:
- The can.config FAQ
In the "clari" hierarchy:
- ClariNet is a commercial newswire service, and new groups are added only by ClariNet Communications.
In the "concordia" hierarchy:
- Our own FAQ on creating Concordia newsgroups.