Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> I've noticed a high ammount of announcements ("[ANN]") on this group.
> 
> Possibly it's time to create an "comp.lang.ruby.announce" usenet group.
> 
> Is someone familar with the process of creating new usenet groups?

I've read in some answers wonderfull acronymes and processes of how to 
split traffic.

If you can master this, than you can master to merge groups together 
into one stream, too (and to split it then again based on you own rulesets).

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But there are newcomers.

Usenet is simple for newcomers, very simple to read via newsreaders, 
very liberal due to the distribution/archival mechanisms.

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And there are professionals:

"announce" is a group which is commonly used within comp.lang.

It is something like an "prestige-object", too - only languages with 
enouth traffic can create this seperate _usenet_ group (and fill it with 
traffic).

"announce" is an activity index: simply read it to get an overview of 
market and the community activity.

So, please rethink once more if its really neccessary to insist on usage 
of tools - instead of simply using the usenet.

[btw: gmane has several disadvantages and can in no way be compared with 
usenet]

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