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In <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] (Richard H. Miller) writes: > Karl ([log in to unmask]) wrote: > : [[log in to unmask]] > > : I think a newsgroup devoted to Parkinsons Disease would be > : a good idea, to help relieve the mailing list PARKINSN of > : it's high volume, and increase readership a hundred fold. > : sci.med.parkinsons would be an ideal name. Does anyone wish > : to write a decent well-written proposal? I'm not a good > : writer, and would probably try to get alt.med.parkinsons > : newgrouped instead, if the responsibilty to create the > : newsgroup rested entirely on my shoulders. > > If there is a large mailing list then sci.med.diseases.parkinsn would be > the way to go. (if the mailing list is >100-150 people then it is considered > large enough for a group.) There's 1,266 subscribers to the high volume mailing list so creating a sci.* newsgroup is justified. sci.med.parkinsons is the preferred name for brevity. Sci.med.diseases has been redundant in practice. Can someone help write a RFD for sci.med.parkinsons? Should I do it myself in spite of sloppiness? -- [log in to unmask]