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- From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: do you want a new group -- rec.camping?
- Message-ID: <11791@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:56:56 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.152726.9265@netcom.com> <RIGG.93Jan19112702@osnome.che.wisc.edu>
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- Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
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- In article <RIGG.93Jan19112702@osnome.che.wisc.edu> rigg@osnome.che.wisc.edu (Tim Rigg) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.152726.9265@netcom.com> derich@netcom.com (Scott A. Steinbrink) writes:
- >
- > I'd like to form a new newsgroup - focusing only on camping.
- > Camping supplies, equipment, sites, activites, cooking, etc can
- > be included.
- >
- > Do you think it's a wise idea for rec.camping to be formed?
-
- Did you intend that this group be mutually exclusive with rec.backcountry?
-
- That is, would this cover camping in big motor homes where you do not
- need to hike into the wilderness?
-
- A charter that guarantees lots of cross posting will not solve your
- perceived problem, which must be that the camping issues of concern
- to you are lost in a wash of politics and hiking posts. If the load
- on this group is too heavy -- and it does not seem that bad -- it
- would make more sense to create r.b.camping and r.b.backpacking
- plus r.b.misc to handle the political discussions.
-
- But without a proposed charter and a call for discussion as per the
- group creation rules, and discussion is pretty pointless.
-
- >Actually, I think we should completely restructure many groups related
- >to rec.backcountry. A new group rec.outdoors.fishing was created
- >about a 6 months ago. Rec.backcountry should be moved over to the
- >rec.outdoors heading. A new set of groups might include
- >
- >rec.outdoors.misc (formerly rec.backcountry)
- >rec.outdoors.camping (as proposed in the original post)
- >rec.outdoors.hunting (formerly rec.hunting)
- >rec.outdoors.climbing (formerly rec.climbing)
- >rec.outdoors.boats (formerly rec.boats)
- >...
-
- A vote on this would fail.
-
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