From blahh@xs4all.nl Tue Jun 18 16:56:05 1996 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: blahh@xs4all.nl (I-GO) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.sys.amiga.demos,alt.amiga.demos,comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.audio,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,de.comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: RFD: comp.sys.amiga.demos Followup-To: news.groups Date: 18 Jun 1996 20:56:44 -0000 Organization: . Lines: 96 Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <835131401.10158@uunet.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Archive-Name: comp.sys.amiga.demos Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:8851 news.groups:212363 alt.sys.amiga.demos:16072 alt.amiga.demos:2250 comp.sys.amiga.graphics:49046 comp.sys.amiga.misc:128210 comp.sys.amiga.audio:21083 comp.sys.amiga.programmer:94288 de.comp.sys.amiga.misc:61615 REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) unmoderated group comp.sys.amiga.demos Newsgroup line: comp.sys.amiga.demos All aspects of the Amiga demo-scene. This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of a world-wide unmoderated Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.amiga.demos. This is not a Call for Votes (CFV); you cannot vote at this time. Procedural details are below. We are proposing to turn the alt.sys.amiga.demos and the alt.amiga.demos newsgroup into comp.sys.amiga.demos. The group will be unmoderated. To participate in the discussion, follow the discussion in news.groups. RATIONALE: comp.sys.amiga.demos There currently are two forums existing on the major commercial online services that relate to the Amiga demo-scene. These two groups (alt.amiga.demos and alt.sys.amiga.demos) are both extremely spammed lately. Therefore we propose to create a new newsgroup, to annihilate the spamming (comp.* groups are less noisy than alt.* groups) and thereby joining the two existing groups into one new group. The proposed group will establish a central location where all persons interested in the Amiga demo-scene or Amiga demos in general can meet without limitations based upon which commercial online service or other internet service provider they utilise for access. CHARTER: comp.sys.amiga.demos Expected topics of discussion include (but are not limited to): - latest demos released; - discussion of old and "classic" demos - coding-tricks; - anything relating to "scene" demos, but not game demos; A FAQ file is already developed to prevent getting the same questions asked over and over again. The newsgroup will be unmoderated. Commercial postings are not welcome as the group has proposed aims for the Amiga demo-scene and not demos from games. Binary files in any form are prohibited. However a posting may include a reference to an URL or FTP pointing to such binary files. END CHARTER. PROCEDURE: This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this phase of the process, any potential problems with the proposed newsgroups should be raised and resolved. The discussion period will continue for a minimum of 21 days (starting from when the first RFD for this proposal is posted to news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For Votes (CFV) may be posted by a neutral vote taker if the discussion warrants it. Please do not attempt to vote until this happens. All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups. This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup creation guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup" and "How to Format and Submit a New Group Proposal". Please refer to these documents (available in news.announce.newgroups) if you have any questions about the process. DISTRIBUTION: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups alt.sys.amiga.demos, alt.amiga.demos, comp.sys.amiga.announce, comp.sys.amiga.graphics, comp.sys.amiga.misc, comp.sys.amiga.games, comp.sys.amiga.cd32, comp.sys.amiga.hardware, comp.sys.amiga.audio, comp.sys.amiga.programmer, de.comp.sys.amiga.misc, comp.sys.amiga and the following URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~blahh/RFD_csad.html and the following FTP-sites: ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.announce.newsgroups/comp/comp.sys.amiga.demos ftp://i41s20.ira.uka.de/pub/text/RFD_csad.txt AmiNet FTP-mirrors as docs/anno/RFD_csad.lha Proponents: Thies Edeling aka I-GO/TBL Dean Ryan -- I-GO/TBL^RAW staff - Hiroshima '45, Tsjernobyl '86, Windows '95 - blahh@xs4all.nl I-GO@pi.net blahh@pi.net