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From: csu@alembic.UUCP (Dave Mack)
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Subject: Re: OFFICIAL Guidelines (2nd try)
Message-ID: <3156@alembic.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 89 05:17:28 GMT
References: <2961@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: csu@alembic.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Organization: Alembic Systems
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In article <2961@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
>
>      GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION (2nd draft)
>
>REQUIREMENTS FOR GROUP CREATION:
>3) The name and charter of the proposed group and whether it will be moderated
>   or unmoderated (and if the former, who the moderator will be) must be agreed
>   upon during the discussion period, which may last up to 30 days if needed.
>
>The Vote
>
>1) AFTER the discussion period, if it has been determined that a new group is
>   really desired, a name and charter are agreed upon, and it has been
>   determined whether the group will be moderated and if so who will
>   moderate it, a call for votes may be posted to news.groups and any
>   other groups or mailing lists that the original call for discussion
>   might have been posted to. 

Sorry, Greg, but there's a problem here. This seems to imply that
we have to achieve agreement on all the details during the discussion
period. It ain't gonna happen. If we have to have a consensus before
the vote begins, it's going to be amazingly difficult to create new
groups.

The discussion period allows the individual calling for the vote to
respond to input from the net in constructing the call for votes, the
group charter, etc.

It's the vote itself that determines whether a group (as named and
chartered, moderated, etc.) is really desired.

Perhaps this is nitpicking, but I don't think we want this wording coming
back to haunt us later.

-- 
Dave Mack