RFD: uk.people.rural
Graham Drabble
REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the following changes
in the uk.* Usenet hierarchy:
delete newsgroup uk.people.rural
Newsgroup line:
uk.people.rural People living in the countryside and their way of life
*** ALL DISCUSSION MUST TAKE PLACE IN UK.NET.NEWS.CONFIG ***
This is not a Call for Votes (CFV); you cannot vote at this time.
Further procedural details are given below.
RATIONALE: uk.people.rural
It has long been custom within uk.* to check for groups that are not
being used and then to remove them. By doing this we keep the number of
dead groups down increasing the chances that someone stumbling across a
group will find it useful.
An analysis of the posts to uk.people.rural from 2009-07-01 to
2010-04-30 has shown that there there were 8 posts in that period,
details of which are shown below.
Re: FA Dry Stone Walling wallers manual vintage England Scots
Bud <bud.e...@gmail.com>
27 Jul 2009 16:38:41 GMT
Re: FA Dry Stone Walling wallers manual vintage England Scots
Martin <m...@address.invalid>
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:44:18 +0200
Re: FA Dry Stone Walling wallers manual vintage England Scots
Martin <m...@address.invalid>
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:25:18 +0200
FA Dry Stone Walling wallers manual vintage England Scots
Ruthie <Ruth...@yahoo.co.uk>
Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:14:10 -0700 (PDT)
Re: the michael jackson scam - children cant lie?? (1995
report)
Jose Sanchez <jm...@yahoo.net>
Wed, 3 Mar 2010 00:57:38 +0000 (UTC)
football jersey paypal wholesaler
"www.jersey-2009.com" <brandt...@yahoo.com>
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:59:00 -0700 (PDT)
rural dating
"James Peach" <Westwood...@btopenworld.com>
Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:25:29 +0100
Is this group being used?
Graham Drabble <usen...@drabble.me.uk>
Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:51:08 +0100
CHARTER:
uk.people.rural
uk.people.rural carries discussion about people who live in the British
countryside and their way of life, including relevant aspects of arts and
sciences such as farming, leisure, employment, society, services,
environment and communications. Animal rights, zoology and botany
discussions are not suited to uk.people.rural. These subjects are covered
by many other newsgroups which already discuss them in a rural context.
uk.people.rural is primarily concerned with rural people, not rural flora
and fauna. uk.people.rural offers a social focus for those in isolated
rural locations which lack social amenities. A periodic "Welcome to..."
or FAQ posting including basic netiquette may be drawn up with the
consent of the group.
Binaries/HTML
All posts must be in plain text. HTML and other types of formatted text
are not permitted. Binaries such as pictures should be posted on a
website or binaries newsgroup, then a plain text announcement posted to
uk.people.rural.
Advertisements
Only short infrequent adverts specifically aimed at rural people are
allowed.
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 proposal should be raised
and resolved. The discussion period will continue for a minimum of 10
days, starting from when this RFD is posted to uk.net.news.announce
(i.e. until May 11th) after which a Call For Votes (CFV) may be
posted by a neutral vote taker if the discussion warrants it.
Alternatively, the proposal may proceed by the fast-track method. Please
do not attempt to vote until this happens.
This RFD attempts to comply fully with the "Guidelines for Group Creation
within the UK Hierarchy" as published regularly in uk.net.news.announce
and is available from http://www.usenet.org.uk/guidelines.html (the UK
Usenet website). Please refer to this document if you have any questions
about the process.
DISTRIBUTION:
This RFD has been posted to the following newsgroups:
uk.net.news.announce
uk.net.news.config
uk.people.rural
Proponent:
Graham Drabble <usen...@drabble.me.uk>
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