I hear that a new bionet newsgroup was created but why isn it at my site yet?
This could happen for a variety of reasons. When we create a new Usenet newsgroup, a “newgroup” message is sent out from net.bio.net to news administrators at Usenet sites around the world. Many sites are configured so that such newgroup messages are acted upon automatically and the group is established without human intervention. However, due to the growing volume of Usenet newsgroups, many sites have turned off automatic newgroup creation and require human intervention to create a new Usenet group in response to a newgroup message. If you know from reading BIONEWS/bionet.announce or from contacting the BIOSCI staff at biosci-help@net.bio.net that a new bionet newsgroup should be in existance, please contact your local news administrator and ask them if they acted on the newgroup message. Newgroup messages can sometimes be simply overlooked by the news administrator and sometimes they may not be received if a Usenet site upstream on the net from you had a problem and did not pass on t
