New Disability Issues Newsgroup
Name of newsgroup: alt.disability.issues
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I asked the alt.config group to send the appropriate cmsg to start this group. It went through some
review and discussion at alt.config and was eventually created with the below charter. It is not a
moderated group. I do not "own" the group; I merely aided in its creation. It's my hope, however,
that disabled people will join this in addition to their specialized groups so that we can discuss
everything and anything in this newsgroup that disabled people might want to discuss in a unified
manner. I know other groups get downright flame-some about what they consider to be "off topic" or
wind up being dominated by a few bullies. I am hoping posters to this group will avoid such
limitations. Remember: the more unified we are, the less they can deny we have a voice.
If your newsgroup provider currently isn't providing this newsgroup, the below information may
assist you in getting them to add it to their newsgroup server. Just write to this with the
information or forward this message with your comments at the top. They (meaning newsgroup
server folks) also use the below link in techno-jargon to describe when, how, where, etc. the
group was created.
Anyway, post away! I will try to add info as it comes to my attention.
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For your newsgroups file: alt.disability.issues various disability issue discussion
Charter:
Unmarked off-topic materials, binaries, advertising (spam), excessive posting, cancel attacks, virus
infected binaries, html-encoded postings, and abusive cross postings are prohibited.
All posts (messages) must be in plain text only and be human-readable.
Justification of Readership:
A yahoo search yields 1,230,000 hits for disability discussion and 7,090,000 for disability.
The current .alt topics for disability are those with specific focuses on the type of disability
and/or Social Security. These specific focuses are not enough to cover the wide-ranging needs and
discussion needed for disabled individuals.
The only existing generalized group on .alt that I can locate is misc.handicap. Handicap is not a
term that most disabled people accept or search for when looking for a newsgroup.
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/alt/alt.disability.issues.gz