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    From Dale@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 6 17:22:54 2021
    Where can I find the charters for big-8 groups?

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  • From Jason Evans@21:1/5 to Dale on Sat Mar 6 23:45:21 2021
    On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 17:22:54 -0500, Dale wrote:

    Where can I find the charters for big-8 groups?

    Hi Dale,

    You can find some of them at our website: big-8.org. You can also check
    out the control file archive at http://ftp.isc.org/usenet/control/. The
    group add control filesoften included the charter for the group that was
    being created. The control file archive goes back to the early 90's and
    is not limited to the Big-8.

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    JE

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  • From Dale@21:1/5 to Jason Evans on Sat Mar 6 20:48:31 2021
    On 3/6/2021 6:45 PM, Jason Evans wrote:
    On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 17:22:54 -0500, Dale wrote:

    Where can I find the charters for big-8 groups?

    Hi Dale,

    You can find some of them at our website: big-8.org. You can also check
    out the control file archive at http://ftp.isc.org/usenet/control/. The
    group add control filesoften included the charter for the group that was being created. The control file archive goes back to the early 90's and
    is not limited to the Big-8.

    __
    JE


    Thank You !!!!

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    Dale -> https://www.dalekelly.org/
    Universalist <-> Mystic <-> Medium

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to Jason Evans on Sun Mar 7 01:52:48 2021
    Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 17:22:54 -0500, Dale wrote:

    Where can I find the charters for big-8 groups?

    Hi Dale,

    You can find some of them at our website: big-8.org. You can also check
    out the control file archive at http://ftp.isc.org/usenet/control/. The
    group add control filesoften included the charter for the group that was >being created. The control file archive goes back to the early 90's and
    is not limited to the Big-8.

    Specifically:

    The archive of newgroup and rmgroup messages is in a directory per
    top-level hierarchy and the archive is gzipped. It's in Berkeley Mail
    format, intended to be read with a mail client, but you can read it with
    any text display program.

    ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/news/news.groups.gz

    With a genuine FTP client from the command line as gawd intended:

    pftp ftp.isc.org
    cd pub/usenet/control/news
    get news.groups.gz
    exit

    gunzip -N news.groups.gz

    and then you'll be able to read it.

    The newgroup message is the proponent's concept of what's on topic in
    the group. In practice, its users decide what to discuss, so don't use
    the newgroup message to flog anyone you deem to be off topic 'cuz
    that's, you know, obnoxious.

    Russ's README

    ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/README

    explains the syntax of a newgroup or rmgroup message so it gets
    archived, together with what hierarchies are recognized (in
    control.ctl).

    But lack of a Newsgroups file line will prevent the News server at ISC
    from adding an entry to the sample active and newsgroups files.

    ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/README

    the other Russ's README

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