This page is intended to serve a single, very limited purpose: to check newsgroup names and descriptions for some common faults. A newsgroup idea can pass all the tests on this page and still be a very bad newsgroup idea. Please first familiarise yourself with all the rules and conventions of newsgroup creation, including those that apply to the specific hierarchy in which you want a group to be created, and then use this page as a final check.
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Version 0.1.1 (beta), last modified 2008-02-05.
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