From: ccs@aber.ac.uk (Christopher "Jd" Samuel)
Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.config,alt.guitar.tab
Subject: Re: Proposal: alt.guitar.bass.tab
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:15:10 GMT
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Organization: University of Wales - Aberystwyth - Prifysgol Cymru

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	Apologies for the lack of comment, but I thought it beneficial
	if the alt.config and alt.guitar.tab people saw this before the
	whole shebang got too carried away.. :-)

In article <8He2RB2w165w@mantis.co.uk>,
 jonathan@mantis.co.uk (Jonathan Egre') doodled:

	[about the alt.guitar.bass.tab proposal]

>
>HOLD YOUR HORSES!
>
>VOTING IS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS to replace the alt.guitar.* groups with
>rec.music.makers.* groups like this:
>
>    alt.guitar      --> rec.music.makers.guitar
>    alt.guitar.bass --> rec.music.makers.bass
>    alt.guitar.tab  --> rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature
>
>I suggest you look in news.groups or news.announce.newgroups for an 
>article with the subject line "CFV: rec.music.makers.* groups" to find
>the "Call For Votes" posting.  You might like to vote!
>
>Voting for these replacement groups (and a couple of groups for other 
>instruments) will end on October 28th.
>
>I STRONGLY SUGGEST that you wait until the outcome of this vote is known
>before trying to create a newsgroup for bass tablature.  The tablature 
>newsgroup belongs close to the main bass newsgroup (and to a lesser 
>extent, closer to the guitar tablature newsgroup), and you will need to 
>wait until the end of October to find out whether that means 
>alt.guitar.bass or rec.music.makers.bass.
>
>Although there is no *technical* reason why you couldn't create a new
>(alt.*) newsgroup now, it is NOT RECOMMENDED because you will risk 
>creating a newsgroup which has to be deleted, which is very messy.
>
>If (after the end of the current voting) you want to create an alt.* 
>group, then you ought to post an informal request for discussion to 
>alt.config.  Some people will tell you that it's not necessary, but 
>posting to alt.config before creating a new alt.* group will make a lot
>of people happier because it gives everybody the opportunity to point out
>potential problems etc.
>
>If you want to create a rec.music.* group, then you MUST post a formal 
>"Request For Discussion" to news.announce.newgroups (entitled something 
>like "RFD: rec.music.makers.bass.tablature").  News.announce.newgroups
>is a moderated newsgroup; this means that instead of your posting appearing
>immediately, it is sent automatically to a moderator, who checks that your
>article belongs in news.announce.newgroups before broadcasting to the 
>world.  Crossposting your RFD to news.groups and any newsgroups you think
>might be interested (e.g. rec.music.makers.bass, if it exists by then)
>would be a very good idea.
>
>After the RFD has been discussed for a bit you can proceed to a 
>"Call For Votes", and if the vote is successful the rec.music.* group 
>gets created.
>
>The advantage of rec.* over alt.* (and the reason why the current vote is
>taking place) is essentially that more people get rec.*.



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