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   Name of newsgroup:  alt.disability.issues   
      
      
      
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   I asked the alt.config group to send the appropriate cmsg to start this   
   group. It went through some review and discussion at alt.config and was   
   eventually created with the below charter. It is not a moderated group. I do   
   not "own" the group; I merely aided in its creation. It's my hope, however,   
   that disabled people will join this in addition to their specialized groups   
   so that we can discuss everything and anything in this newsgroup that   
   disabled people might want to discuss in a unified manner. I know other   
   groups get downright flame-some about what they consider to be "off topic"   
   or wind up being dominated by a few bullies. I am hoping posters to this   
   group will avoid such limitations. Remember:  the more unified we are, the   
   less they can deny we have a voice.   
      
      
      
   If your newsgroup provider currently isn't providing this newsgroup, the   
   below information may assist you in getting them to add it to their   
   newsgroup server. Just write to this with the information or forward this   
   message with your comments at the top. They (meaning newsgroup server folks)   
   also use the below link in techno-jargon to describe when, how, where, etc.   
   the group was created.   
      
      
   Anyway, post away! I will try to add info as it comes to my attention.   
      
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   For your newsgroups file:     alt.disability.issues    various disability   
   issue discussion   
      
   Charter:   
      
   Unmarked off-topic materials, binaries, advertising (spam), excessive   
   posting, cancel attacks, virus infected binaries, html-encoded postings, and   
   abusive cross postings are prohibited.   
      
   All posts (messages) must be in plain text only and be human-readable.   
      
    Justification of Readership:   
      
   A yahoo search yields 1,230,000 hits for disability discussion and 7,090,000   
   for disability.   
      
   The current .alt topics for disability are those with specific focuses on   
   the type of disability and/or Social Security. These specific focuses are   
   not enough to cover the wide-ranging needs and discussion needed for   
   disabled individuals.   
      
   The only existing generalized group on .alt that I can locate is   
   misc.handicap. Handicap is not a term that most disabled people accept or   
   search for when looking for a newsgroup.   
      
      
      
   ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/alt/alt.disability.issues.gz   
      
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