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- From: rigg@osnome.che.wisc.edu (Tim Rigg)
- Subject: Re: do you want a new group -- rec.camping?
- Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chemical Engineering
- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:12:09 CST
- Message-ID: <RIGG.93Jan21111211@osnome.che.wisc.edu>
- Lines: 48
- References: <1993Jan19.152726.9265@netcom.com> <RIGG.93Jan19112702@osnome.che.wisc.edu>
- <11791@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- In-reply-to: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu's message of 21 Jan 93 14:56:56 GMT
-
- In article <11791@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
- 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.
-
- I agree. I was just getting a feel for the net.opinion. I'll sendout
- a "real" RFD (Request For Discussion) later today.
-
- >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.
-
- I am not so sure. I am quite certain a vote to transfer rec.hunting
- would pass. I do not read the other groups enough to know their
- feelings.
-
- tim
- --
- ... Then they came for me,
- and by that time there was no one
- left to speak up for me. (Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945)
-
-