Mark Davies posted the following message (slightly edited) outlining the 
history of the current newsgroups up till March 95.

~From: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies)
~Newsgroups: nz.org.net-society,nz.netstatus,nz.general
~Subject: Re: CFV process for creating NZ.* groups
~Date: 27 Mar 1995 23:06:30 GMT
~Message-ID: <3l7gdm$jh1@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz>

OK, Here is the creation story for all NZ newsgroups:
   nz.general
   nz.netstatus
The original two. Created with no discussion (there was noone to discuss 
with) when we first started getting news in the country. They will be 10 
years old later this year (happy birthday to you ...)

   nz.arts
   nz.comp
   nz.rec
   nz.soc
   nz.soc.green
   nz.wanted
   nz.archives

Created after a usenet BOF at a Uniforum NZ conference attended by many of
the then news administrators.  We got flamed about creating these without
consulting the masses so introduced a voting scheme of two week period, 20+
votes required, simple majority (I think, something like that anyway).

   nz.alex

The vote was rigged and the newgroup was ignored (you had to be there)

   nz.molbio

voted for and passed under the above voting scheme.  The group was 
eventually removed due to lack of traffic.

   nz.politics
   nz.org.net-society

voted for and passed under revised voting schemes allowing for the growth
in the net population.

   nz.test

A technical group created after discussion when a need was identified.

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