🚀 go-pugleaf

Franck <hi@ceroc.u-net.com> wrote:

> Hi Rowland,
> 
> Great idea, and you can count on my vote too !
> 
> Let us hope it happens.
[snip]

Thanks :-)  There shouldn't be any problems with getting the group
created.  The procedure is (roughly):

Knock up a `request for discussion' document which needs to contain
certain stuff (hopefully, all included).

Email it to the appropriate bod (control@usenet.org.uk)

Appropriate bod posts it to uk.net.news.announce, uk.net.news.config,
and anywhere else you tell him to.

Discussion rages for at least 10 days and eventually a final rfd is
agreed on (I'm hoping that this stage will be trivial by sorting out any
problems with the rfd before sending it to the official people).

And then (cut-and-pasted from the original file):

> 4.If, by the end of the initial discussion period, a consensus has been
> reached and the proposal appears to be straightforward and
> non-controversial, the proposer may, within 40 days of the original
> publication of the most recent RFD, ask control@usenet.org.uk to create
> the group by the "fast-track" method. If Control (as advised by the
> Committee) is satisfied of this, he will announce in uk.net.news.announce
> that, in the absence of valid objections, the new group will be created on
> a date not less than 5 days thereafter. In the event of 4 or more
> objections, or any objection which seems to the Committee to be well
> founded, the fast-track method shall not be used, and the RFD should
> either proceed to a vote, or have a revised RFD submitted for further
> discussion.

In other words, with a bit of luck and a following wind, we should get
uk.comp.sys.mac within the month without having to fiddle around too
much.

Fingers crossed...

Rowland.

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