Subject: Announceing: The begging of the Usenet Bible! But I need help... 

Hello you all:

I am beginning work a master list of all the UseNet newsgroups
including:

	-A Short Description of the group.
	-A Long Description of the group
	-Any FAQ's that go with the group
	-The Moderators name and e-mail address if moderated
	-Where and how the group is archived, if at all.

I would also like to include in the future:

	-Its average volume
	-Its average number of readers
	-The estimated Noise ratio.

I will make it a regular FAQ posting as soon as it gets to a somewhat 
descent level and will keep you guys informed of its status.

What I need from you guys now is help.  You can help in several ways.
One of those ways is by contributing a long description or archived
site for any given group.

To submit a description start the Subject line with either "D: " or "Desc: "
and follow it by the newsgroups name, the space after the colon is
important so please don't leave it out.  The body of the message should
be the description.  The message should be sent to UseNet-b@clark.net
For example here would be a submission for rec.arts.startrek.current:

  From: Kevin Atkinson <kevina@clark.net>
  To: UseNet-b@clark.net 
  Subject: Desc: rec.arts.startrek.current

  Discussion of Star Trek television programs, movies and books aired or 
  released for the first time within the past four months, information about
  future programs, movies and books, and speculation of same, if based on
  information still current (such as speculation of cliffhanger resolutions).

Please do not have any leading spaces and be aware that the description
may get reformatted so do not include charts and such within the description.
(If you must please leave a comment and we might be able to work something
out) If you wish to leave a comment to the review (the one that will
either approve or reject you submission) like why you think it is
better then the one that is there please put it after a line with the
number signs like this:

  (Body of message)
  ###
  I think you should chose this description over the previous one because
  it is longer and explains what posts are not allowed in this group.

You can send a location to where the archive is sent in a similar fashion
except that you should begin the Subject with either "A: " or "Arch: ".
Also, the first line (of the body) should contain the pointer to the ftp site
in the "site:/path/" style or the e-mail address.  You should then leave
a blank line before you give the information on how it is archived or how to
get a post if it is a mail server.  You should also include the time range 
the archive covers.

Once a submission is send it will be proceed by a perl script (to see if
there is already something there) and will be mailed to a reviewer for
inspection.  The reviewer will either accept, reject, or ask you to make
changes to it before it gets accepted.  You will be notified as soon as
it gets accepted or rejected and you name will go down as an contributor.

I strongly encourage you to first check what's there before submitting by 
sending a message with a subject line "See: Newsgroup" for example
to see what's there in news.answers you would send a line with a subject
"See: news.answers".  Upon receiving the regrets the server will mail
you the raw database file.

Please do not expect imminent responses to you submissions because I have
not finalized the code for handling the submissions.

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I could also use some people to help me review the submissions sent to
me, so if you are TRULY interested please let me know and I could tell
you what's involved.

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I plan to make my list available from ftp.clark.net however I am worried
about it creating to much of a load on my system so I would appreciate
people who will be willing to mirror the list.

For the time being the list will be in a rather messy format until I get
some time to work on code to format it.  I plan on creating a plain
text version, a TeX version, and a PS version form the TeX file.  I also
plan to have a RTF format version available however I will start with a
plain text version and work from there.

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If you can think of any other way you can help me (like help me with
my perl scripts) please let me know.

							>> Kevin <<

PS: I will NOT respond to flames about how this is inpractical and such.	

If it is not a direct submission please send it to kevina@clark.net, NOT
usenet-b@clark.net.	
