🚀 go-pugleaf

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            //_ //|
6 Watlands Rd   | "I was in love, once. A ZX81. People said,      || || |
Bignall End     | 'No, Holly, she's not for you.' She was cheap,  || || /\_
Stoke On Trent  | stupid and wouldn't load - at least not for   _/|| ||\_/ |
ST7 8QQ England.| me, anyway."			     Red Dwarf |_/ |_| \_|/

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REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION
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This is a request for discussion on the creation of a newsgroup for
debates about the Atari ST personal computer.

Group Name
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comp.sys.atari.st.advocacy

Status
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Unmoderated

Rationale
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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
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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
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If no problems arise, voting will start one month from the posting date
of this RFD.

Proposers
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David Oakley		dxo@cs.bham.ac.uk
Ian M Rae		imr@cs.bham.ac.uk