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- From: dxo@cs.bham.ac.uk (David Oakley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Do an RFD: comp.sys.atari.st.advocacy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.145733@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:57:33 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.bham.ac.uk
- Organization: ASTRAsoft, Stoke-On-Trent England.
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-
- There seems to be growing concensus that we need to get an advocacy group for the
- st. I've thrown together the following letter, so please mail me with your
- opinions and if they're positive then I'll formally post it on
- news.announce.newgroups.
-
- If you'd like to add your name to the Proposers, let me know also.
-
- Thanks,
-
- David.
- .___ .
- David Oakley, ASTRAsoft shareware producers for the ST //_ //|
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-
- ===============================================================================
- REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION
- ======================
-
- This is a request for discussion on the creation of a newsgroup for
- debates about the Atari ST personal computer.
-
- Group Name
- ==========
- comp.sys.atari.st.advocacy
-
- Status
- ======
- Unmoderated
-
- Rationale
- =========
- This group will separate a section of discussion from the current
- newsgroup comp.sys.atari.st.
-
- The discussion of advocacy currently takes up over 50% of the items
- in the atari.st newsgroup and so it is felt that the original
- purpose of the newsgroup is being left behind.
-
- New users and people who need information about the Atari ST can
- continue to use the original group and would hopefully get more
- attention if there is less advocacy mail present.
-
- What a FAQ for this group could contain is also a matter for
- discussion.
-
- Discussion
- ==========
- Comments on this proposed new newsgroup should be posted to the USENET
- newsgroup news.groups. If the reader is not able to do so, comments may
- be e-mailed to any of the proposers, at the addresses below, and we will
- post them.
-
- Voting
- ======
- If no problems arise, voting will start one month from the posting date
- of this RFD.
-
- Proposers
- =========
- David Oakley dxo@cs.bham.ac.uk
- Ian M Rae imr@cs.bham.ac.uk
-