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Origin of sci.techniques.xtallography

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After much knashing of teeth, exploring the depths of despair, discovering the pitfalls and jumping through the hula-hoops of Usenet newsgroup creations (finally recovering through the teamwork of crystallographers and other interested parties world-wide), sci.techniques.xtallography was created on the 14th October 1993, after a massive majority of positive votes via email.

Naming the newsgroup (mainly due to technical difficulties due to discovering the unwritten laws© of Usenet) turned out to be a non-trivial event :-

before finally becoming :-
Part of the sequence of events

  1. The then current Newsgroup Creation Guidelines
  2. The second Summary of Interest in creating sci.misc.xtallography
  3. The second RFD (Request for Discussion) for sci.xtallography
  4. The first "official" CFV (Call for Votes) for sci.techniques.xtallography
  5. The Vote Results for sci.techniques.xtallography


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