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| This is great idea !
Jimbo
"Gary Poston" <gary@torquay-allotments.co.uk> wrote in message
news:RdGdneb-puchQAbanZ2dnUVZ8qOknZ2d@bt.com...
> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
> unmoderated group uk.rec.gardening.allotments
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> This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of the
> unmoderated Usenet newsgroup, uk.rec.gardening.allotments
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> NEWSGROUPS LINE: uk.rec.gardening.allotments
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> RATIONALE: uk.rec.gardening.allotments
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> The objective is to create a newsgroup in which 'Allotment holders'
> can discuss allotment issues.
> I have searched to find many allotment web sites and found that if
> this group was opened it would allow all allotment (and would be)
> allotment holders to to exchange views in one convenient place.
> This in turn would give valued exchange of views by every visitor.
> To also pick up tips and sometimes tricks into allotment gardening.
> One place that all Allotment holders can come to discuss any problems.
> Quite a few Allotments being taken over from the councils with self
> managed proposals
> and this newsgroup will be able to disuss this.
> Allotments are a UK institution (and worldwide) and we should have a place
> for it.
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> CHARTER:
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> uk.rec.gardening.allotments is an unmoderated newsgroup which will
> serve as a forum for discussing the tradition of Allotment gardening. It
> is
> not on-topic to post commercial or personal ads of any kind to
> uk.rec.allotments. Debate is on-topic, but personal attacks
> are heavily frowned upon. Posts containing binaries are not on-topic,
> with the exception of PGP type signatures and X-Face avatars. All posts
> must be in plain text and not in HTML.
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> PROCEDURE:
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> For more information on the newsgroup creation process, please see:
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> http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku....licies:creation
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> Those who wish to influence the development of this RFD and its final
> resolution should subscribe to news.groups.proposals and participate in
> the
> relevant threads in that newsgroup. This is both a courtesy to groups in
> which discussion of creating a new group is off-topic as well as the best
> method of making sure that one's comments or criticisms are heard.
>
> All discussion of active proposals should be posted to
> news.groups.proposals.
> To this end, the 'Followup-To' header of this RFD has been set to this
> group.
>
> If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, the discussion
> may be crossposted to those groups, but care must be taken to ensure
> that all discussion appears in news.groups.proposals as well.
>
> We urge those who would like to read or post in the proposed newsgroup
> to make a comment to that effect in this thread; we ask proponents to
> keep a list of such positive posts with the relevant message ID
> (e.g., Barney Fife, <4JGdnb60fsMzHA7ZnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> ).
> Such lists of positive feedback for the proposal may constitute good
> evidence that the group will be well-used if it is created.
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> DISTRIBUTION:
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> This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
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> uk.net.news.config
> uk.net.news.announce
> uk.rec.gardening
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> PROPONENT:
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> G.Poston <gary@torquay-allotments.co.uk>
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> CHANGE HISTORY:
> 2004-3-22 1st RFD
> 2008-01-27 2nd RFD
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