An up-to-date list of relevant sites can always be found at http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Usenet/Newsgroup_Creation/

Guides for creating an alt.newsgroup

http://www.faqs.org/usenet/alt/naming.html

http://www.gweep.bc.ca/~edmonds/usenet/good-newgroup.html

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~barr/alt-creation-guide.html

http://www.tezcat.com/~haz1/alt/example.html (the template)

more useful information:

ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/config/ (select newsgroups.z)

http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1036.txt

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~asdamick/www/news/create.html

http://cs1.presby.edu/~jtbell/usenet/newgroup/

for information on starting a moderated newsgroup read the following documents.

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt.config

http://www.swcp.com/~dmckeon/mod-faq.html

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/news/moderated-ng-faq

For free moderation software, dMOD, click here

for information on starting a moderated newsgroup read the following documents.

http://www.swcp.com/~dmckeon/mod-faq.html

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/news/moderated-ng-faq

The Great Barbara P's links:

news:news.newusers.questions

General Newsgroup Help............... http://www.geocities.com/nnqweb/ Deja Search

Forms......... http://www.geocities.com/nnqweb/deja.html

Creating New Groups (Big-8 and ALT) ..... http://www.geocities.com/nnqweb//ncreate.html