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David Mahon wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Presently there are a number of ski and snowboard groups in the rec.skiing heirarchy however much of the discussion is US based, even in the subheirarchy for european resorts. I've nothing against people wanting to set up their own ng but rec.skiing.resorts.europe pratically is a discussion group for UK skiers. |
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Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:22:13
uk.net.news.config Ian Spare On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:14:09 +0200, David Off wrote: I've nothing against people wanting to set up their own ng but rec.skiing.resorts.europe pratically is a discussion group for UK skiers. Quite, there's no argument I can see that rec.skiing.resorts.europe isn't working. Diluting it would make it weaker. Not the point at all. If sufficient people want the group in uk.* and the naming is sorted out it will happen. Dilution of rec.skiing.resorts.europe isn't an issue for people concerned with the uk.* hierarchy. I do hope this doesn't become F1 revisited. -- Wm ... Reply-To: address valid for at least 7 days from date of posting |
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"Wm..." wrote in message
... Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:22:13 uk.net.news.config Ian Spare On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:14:09 +0200, David Off wrote: I've nothing against people wanting to set up their own ng but rec.skiing.resorts.europe pratically is a discussion group for UK skiers. Quite, there's no argument I can see that rec.skiing.resorts.europe isn't working. Diluting it would make it weaker. Not the point at all. If sufficient people want the group in uk.* and the naming is sorted out it will happen. Dilution of rec.skiing.resorts.europe isn't an issue for people concerned with the uk.* hierarchy. I do hope this doesn't become F1 revisited. I've got 5 F1 groups I use on my server, each of them has different characteristics to each other simply because of who posts to them. If the skiing group split then I'd imagine the same would happen, presumably the core posters would stay here and newcomers would chance their arm wherever they land first. -- James... http://www.jameshart.co.uk/ |
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 23:41:00 +0100, "Wm..."
wrote: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:22:13 uk.net.news.config Ian Spare On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:14:09 +0200, David Off wrote: I've nothing against people wanting to set up their own ng but rec.skiing.resorts.europe pratically is a discussion group for UK skiers. Quite, there's no argument I can see that rec.skiing.resorts.europe isn't working. Diluting it would make it weaker. Not the point at all. If sufficient people want the group in uk.* and the naming is sorted out it will happen. Dilution of rec.skiing.resorts.europe isn't an issue for people concerned with the uk.* hierarchy. It is if most of the prospective users of the proposed uk.* group are already using the rec.* group, and prefer to stay where they are. They would be perfectly entitled to vote no, if they choose. I do hope this doesn't become F1 revisited. Repeating the mantra that uk.* doesn't care about the rest of Usenet, as if that was supposed to be a virtue, is one way of ensuring that it will. -- Don Aitken Mail to the addresses given in the headers is no longer being read. To mail me, substitute "clara.co.uk" for "freeuk.com". |
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Sun, 19 Oct 2003 01:20:39
uk.net.news.config Don Aitken On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 23:41:00 +0100, "Wm..." wrote: Not the point at all. If sufficient people want the group in uk.* and the naming is sorted out it will happen. Dilution of rec.skiing.resorts.europe isn't an issue for people concerned with the uk.* hierarchy. It is if most of the prospective users of the proposed uk.* group are already using the rec.* group, and prefer to stay where they are. They just stay were they are then, simple. They would be perfectly entitled to vote no, if they choose. So? Which bit of "If sufficient people want the group in uk.*" did you miss? I do hope this doesn't become F1 revisited. Repeating the mantra that uk.* doesn't care about the rest of Usenet, as if that was supposed to be a virtue, is one way of ensuring that it will. Whatever ... you beat your drum, I'll say what I think. At the moment I think I am making more sense than you. -- Wm ... Reply-To: address valid for at least 7 days from date of posting |
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 23:41:00 +0100, "Wm..."
wrote: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:22:13 uk.net.news.config Ian Spare On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:14:09 +0200, David Off wrote: I've nothing against people wanting to set up their own ng but rec.skiing.resorts.europe pratically is a discussion group for UK skiers. Quite, there's no argument I can see that rec.skiing.resorts.europe isn't working. Diluting it would make it weaker. Not the point at all. If sufficient people want the group in uk.* and the naming is sorted out it will happen. Dilution of rec.skiing.resorts.europe isn't an issue for people concerned with the uk.* hierarchy. It was the point enough that the RFD was posted into RSRE. If it's not connected then I'm a loss to see why it was posted there. If you objected to the RFD being posted in in RSRE then take it up with the poster. It's totally mindless to objiect to the RSRE becuase it doesn't have a UK prefix. Baring a few mindless bigots I can't see who might start posting to a ski group just becuase it's got a uk prefix so the best you hope for is take traffic out RSRE which does reduce it and for what? |
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David Mahon wrote:
snip I still don't see any need for the group, there's no significant skiing in the UK, for European skiing r.s.r.e is effectively the discussion group English speaking skiers, the majority of whom are UK based. Having seen the experience of the French who set up a ski n.g. which failed (fr.sport.neige-et-glace) despite a lot of people voting for it (and they at least have some ski resorts) I'm a bit dubious of the need to this group. There are far too many useless ng's being set-up IMHO. Anyway let us know when the vote is so we can exercise our opinion. |
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 23:41:00 +0100, "Wm..."
wrote: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:22:13 uk.net.news.config Ian Spare On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:14:09 +0200, David Off wrote: I've nothing against people wanting to set up their own ng but rec.skiing.resorts.europe pratically is a discussion group for UK skiers. Quite, there's no argument I can see that rec.skiing.resorts.europe isn't working. Diluting it would make it weaker. Not the point at all. If sufficient people want the group in uk.* and the naming is sorted out it will happen. But is there any indication that there will be? Dilution of rec.skiing.resorts.europe isn't an issue for people concerned with the uk.* hierarchy. But it is for those who already read this group. I suspect that several of the readers of this group will vote against, because they will be worried about the effects a new uk group would have on this one. -- Alex Heney, Global Villager Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. To reply by email, my address is aDOTjDOTheneyATbtinternetDOTcom |
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:07:15 +0100, David Mahon
wrote: Here is the charter for RS For discussion of ski and snowboard resorts in Europe. Discussion of the pros and cons of different resorts in Europe and the snow conditions at the different resorts in Europe would be suitable for this group. Other areas that might be suitable for this group: lodging facilities, grading of runs, accessibility of ski resorts in Europe. Europe is a multi-cultural, multi-langauge area. This creates problems of a unique sort. This group will have no designated language. The language a poster desires to post in is appropriate. However, to make this work the multilingual people may desire to interrupt for the people that do not understand the poster's language of choice. This is very different to the proposed charter for uk.rec.skiing. So? As we all know, charters are flexible beasties - it happens that, partially due to the implosion of RSA, RSRE has become _the_ de-facto ski discussion group. There's even a fair few merkins who post here occasionally. I accept, however, that the name is not the most obvious for newbies, but I agree with others on here that the new group would, at best, fragment the existing group. -- Ace (bruce dot rogers at roche dot com) Ski Club of Great Britain - http://www.skiclub.co.uk All opinions expressed are personal and in no way represent those of the Ski Club. |
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![]() "David Mahon" wrote in message ... In article , Ian Spare writes ..../... Here is the charter for RS For discussion of ski and snowboard resorts in Europe. Discussion of the pros and cons of different resorts in Europe and the snow conditions at the different resorts in Europe would be suitable for this group. Other areas that might be suitable for this group: lodging facilities, grading of runs, accessibility of ski resorts in Europe. Europe is a multi-cultural, multi-langauge area. This creates problems of a unique sort. This group will have no designated language. The language a poster desires to post in is appropriate. However, to make this work the multilingual people may desire to interrupt for the people that do not understand the poster's language of choice. This is very different to the proposed charter for uk.rec.skiing. This has probably been discussed already, but traffic through rsre is quite light, and I doubt that this has anything to do with its charter. As David said a similar attempt in France was totally unsuccessful. It would make more sense to amend the charter for rsre than to effectively double up on ngs for a pretty limited readership. Pete |
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