RFD: rec.travel.europe.uk
Alex Dawson
unmoderated group rec.travel.europe.uk
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of a
world-wide unmoderated Usenet newsgroup rec.travel.europe.uk. This is
not a Call for Votes (CFV); you cannot vote at this time. Procedural
details are below.
Newsgroup line:
rec.travel.europe.uk Travel in/to/from the United Kingdom.
RATIONALE: rec.travel.europe.uk
With rec.travel.europe presently receiving over two hundred posts a
day, the group has become too big to use practically, which has
resulted in fewer people subscribing to the group except when they
have a new message to post, which has in turn meant fewer messages are
replied to. Whilst many messages in rec.travel.europe regard travel
across Europe as a whole, many others are concerned with travel to
specific regions or countries. With a sub level of rec.travel.europe
being created this will lead the way for far more European travel
newsgroups to be created covering various different countries and
regions, whilst maintain the existing group (rec.travel.europe) for
discussion of travel around Europe as a whole. This will create a net
increase in messages about travel in Europe as well as a better
quality of discussion, because people will be able to subscribe to a
specific group or groups for the areas of European travel in which
they are interested and thereby have fewer headers for discussions in
which they are not interested to sort through.
CHARTER: rec.travel.europe.uk
rec.travel.europe.uk is for the discussion of travel: in the United
Kingdom, to the United Kingdom, or from the United Kingdom.
Cross posting between rec.travel.europe.uk and other
rec.travel.europe.* newsgroups or rec.travel.europe is not welcome,
unless the post specifically concerns travel between the regions or
countries which are the topic of those newsgroups, in which case one
follow-up group should be set.
In general excessive cross posting is unwelcome especially if no
follow-up group is set.
With the exception of PGP signatures, all encoded binaries (eg
pictures, word processor files, .zip files etc), html, or similar
non-plaintext postings are *forbidden*; malformed posts from badly
configured newsreaders are also unwelcome.
Advertising is not welcome
Anyone posting contrary to this charter may be reported to their
postmaster/ ISP.
END CHARTER.
PROCEDURE:
This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this phase
of the process, any potential problems with the proposed newsgroups
should be raised and resolved. The discussion period will continue
for a minimum of 21 days (starting from when the first RFD for this
proposal is posted to news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For
Votes (CFV) may be posted by a neutral vote taker if the discussion
warrants it. Please do not attempt to vote until this happens.
All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.
This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup creation
guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup" and "How
to Format and Submit a New Group Proposal". Please refer to these
documents (available in news.announce.newgroups) if you have any
questions about the process.
DISTRIBUTION:
news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,rec.travel.europe
Proponent: Alex Dawson <a.da...@virgin.net>