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Unlike most of the other hierarchies, there is no centralized control of the hierarchy and anyone who is technically capable of creating a newsgroup can do so. In practice, however, most newsgroups follow an informal procedure involving a public discussion in ''alt.config'' before being created. This procedure is designed to help the potential creator better understand what factors contribute to a newsgroup's success.

It is up to each individual [[Usenet_newsgroupUsenet newsgroup#Types|news administrator]] whether to add a new newsgroup, and some will not do so if the group has not been discussed in ''alt.config''. As a result, groups that do not follow this procedure are usually not well-propagated. News group removal in theory occurs in much the same way as newsgroup creation, however as a matter of practice most news administrators do not remove newsgroups.

==Origin==

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* [http://nylon.net/alt/index.htm How to create an ALT newsgroup]

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