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                     REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
              unmoderated group can.consumers

Newsgroup line:
can.consumers	Discussion of products and services available in Canada.

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of a
world-wide unmoderated Usenet newsgroup can.consumer.  This
is not a Call for Votes (CFV); you cannot vote at this time.
Procedural details are below.


RATIONALE: can.consumers

There is no newsgroup specifically for the discussion of products
and services available in Canada.  There is a misc.consumers
newsgroup, but its audience is mostly in the US and the postings
related to interest rates, consumer protection, warrantees etc.
apply mostly to the US and not Canada.  Groups such as can.general,
ont.general and can.legal frequently receive posts of a consumer
nature but these posts would be better served by a group dedicated
to consumer issues.

A group dedicated to issues which affect the Canadian consumer would
concentrate these posts for the Canadian audience and reduce them in
inappropriate groups.

The name of the proposed group is chosen fit under the can.* regional
hierarchy.

CHARTER: can.consumers

can.consumers is an  unmoderated newsgroup to discuss issues related to
products and services available to Canadian consumers including such
topics as:  banking and financial services, retail goods, food and
beverages, insurance, travel, hazardous products, privacy and rights of
the consumer.

This group is similar in nature to the US-oriented misc.consumers but
deals specifically with Canadian issues as the laws and policies which
apply to consumers in Canada are different than those which apply in the
United States.

Commercial advertising or forsale-type posts are not permitted.

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
    can.config
    can.general
    ont.general
    ott.general
    can.legal
    can.infohighway
    misc.consumers


Proponent: Pat Coghlan <bn207@freenet.carleton.ca>

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-Pat  

bn207@freenet.carleton.ca