Re: Proposal - alt.magick.astrology

On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 21:16:22 +0000, Corey White wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:02:14 +0000, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> 
>> Corey White <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>For your newsgroups file:
>>>alt.magick.astrology	A place where astrologers discuss magick.
>> 
>> Hooray! A tab character!
>> 
>> The description should be a phrase made up of key words that don't
>> repeat words from the group name, ending in a period. You have no
>> useful key words; "place" and "discuss" should never appear in a
>> description.
>> 
>>>CHARTER: alt.magick.astrology exists to discuss the use of astrology
>>>for working magick across cultures.
>> 
>>>The newsgroup will not be moderated. Binary, off-topic, spam and
>>>advertising posts are not permitted. Discussion of hacks, cracks,
>>>warez,
>>>serial numbers or the illegal exchange of copyrighted software is
>>>banned.
>> 
>>>JUSTIFICATION: Using astrology as a form of magick is an ancient
>>>practice that could benefit from usenet discussion.
>> 
>>>Thank you.
>> 
>> That's not justification. Justification is you, the proponent, looking
>> on Usenet for topical discussion taking place and figuring out if the
>> proposed group would have an audience. If there aren't 10 articles a
>> day already that are part of on-topic discussion and not just someone
>> reposting articles from the Web, the group is unlikely to find an
>> audience.
>> 
>> Please note that no one in alt.config approves newsgroup proposals. You
>> are free to send the newgroup as you wish, or to keep looking for an
>> audience. I would strongly urge you to find such discussion already
>> taking place on Usenet so you know who might subscribe to the group.
>> 
>> Also: Users have to request creation of the proposed group from their
>> News administrator, and then subscribe to it in their newsreader.
>> 
>> I realize alt.magick.* is an existing second level hierarchy, so
>> hooray!
>> for that. Nevertheless, there are lots of astrology newsgroups. Is
>> magick ever discussed in them?
>> 
>> I doubt the moderated groups are active but you should check.
>> 
>> alt.astrology           Twinkle, twinkle, little planet.
>> alt.astrology.asian     The stars as they appear over the Orient.
>> alt.astrology.cujo      Cujo the resident kook-hunter of alt.astrology
>> alt.astrology.ghouls    A place for the assholes to put their
>> postdictions and get flamed alt.astrology.marketplace       Astrology
>> business; for-sale, want-to-buy ads.
>> alt.astrology.metapsych Discussion of astrology
>> alt.astrology.metapsych.cujo    Cujo kook-hunter of
>> alt.astrology.metapsych alt.astrology.metapsych.moderated Metaphysical
>> Astrology (Moderated)
>> alt.astrology.moderated Study and practice of astrology. (moderated)
>> (Moderated)
>> alt.astrology.moderated.metapsych       No description. (Moderated)
>> alt.astrology.pro       No description.
>> alt.astrology.scam      discussion of astrology as a con
>> alt.astrology.toadology discussion of toadology vs. astrology
>> alt.astrology.tropical  Study & debate of tropical astrology.
>> (Moderated)
>> alt.fan.jai-maharaj     A contributor to alt.astrology and
>> soc.culture.indian.
>> alt.newage.astrology    No description.
>> free.uk.astrology       No description.
>> relcom.astrology        Round table of Astrologer.RU (Moderated)
> 
> I tried sending a control message from my eternal september account, but
> nothing happened. X)
> 
> I have two reasons that I would like to create the group.  The first is
> because I love usenet and want to understand and experience the process
> of creating a group.  The other is because I think it would free up
> space for discussion that is already on alt.magick.
> 
> I would love to get any more words of wisdom from you here on alt.config
> I reads that sometimes you guys will send out the control message for
> people.

I got the following error when I tried to send out the control message 
using my python NNTP Library:

"nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError: 441 Posting Failed. None of the groups to 
which the article was posted are valid. E1"


From: Corey White <[email protected]>
Subject: cmsg newgroup alt.magick.astrology
Newsgroups: all.all.ctl, alt.magick.astrology
Control: newgroup alt.magick.astrology
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:44:47 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit


For your newsgroups file:
alt.magick.astrology    Conjuring astrological forces.


CHARTER: alt.magick.astrology exists to discuss the use of astrology for 
working magick.

The newsgroup will not be moderated. Binary, off-topic, spam and 
advertising posts are not permitted. Discussion of hacks, cracks, warez, 
serial numbers or the illegal$

JUSTIFICATION: There is a great deal of interest in the emerging field of 
astrological magick.

Thank you.


(I also contacted my usenet administrator on Frugal Usenet and they told 
me that I should be able to do this myself.)