From: pschleck@cwis.unomaha.edu (Paul W Schleck KD3FU)
Subject: Ham-Bulletin Digest (was Re: RFD: rec.radio.info moderated)
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:03:23 GMT

A few days ago, I sent some E-mail to Brian Kantor (maintainer of the
Info-Hams/Packet-Radio/Ham-Policy E-mail gateways of rec.radio.amateur.misc,
.packet, and .policy, respectively) asking him if he'd be willing to set up 
"Ham-Bulletin Digest" to provide a similar gateway for rec.radio.info.
Although this would be a bit of extra work for him, there are some easily-
implemented technical schemes (inherent in C-news) that could filter all the
rec.radio.info-cross-posted bulletins from rec.radio.amateur.misc (and
hence from Info-Hams) and could save him from reader complaints about
Info-Hams filling up with Keplerian Elements, Solar Bulletins, and
FAQ's.  The total traffic through his gateway would be approximately
the same, it would just be split up into a bulletin stream and a
discussion stream.  Mark Salyzyn and I eagerly await his reply.

For those who haven't been keeping up with news, there is an ongoing
official Request for Discussion in news.groups about the creation of a
moderated newsgroup called rec.radio.info.  The full details are in the
RFD announcement, but the basic idea would be that Mark would moderate a
newsgroup that would serve as a cross-posting target for all of the
bulletins that appear in rec.radio.amateur.misc (as well as the other
rec.radio.* newsgroups).  Placing it under rec.radio.* vs.
rec.radio.amateur.* was a result of a pragmatic realization that there
just isn't enough content in each of the sub-heirarchies to justify their
own newsgroups (and many announcements like DX bulletins, schedules, and
solar reports would be duplicated).  Cross-posting is also another
pragmatic realization that not everyone would be aware of rec.radio.info
and would still benefit from seeing these bulletins in their home
newsgroups (again, creative use of the sys file in C-news would prevent
these bulletins from appearing in *.misc by local option, such as with
the server that feeds Info-Hams).

As a result, those simply interested in the bulletin-postings would find
them all in one convenient, filtered forum.  It is Mark's intention to
convene a Call for Votes to create this newsgroup early next month (more
on that in a future announcement).  Although the creation of the mailing
list gateway is a separate issue (and solely at the discretion of Brian
Kantor and the University of California at San Diego) it would be "icing
on the cake" and encourage acceptance of this new newsgroup.  We could
certainly have an E-mail digest elsewhere, but adding it to Brian's
listserv (and archiving it at ucsd.edu) would be the best overall
solution.

If you support this newsgroup idea, please followup to news.groups.  If
you support the idea of Ham-Bulletin Digest and the filtering of
bulletins from Info-Hams, please drop an E-mail message to
brian@ucsd.edu encouraging him to set it up.  As Mark noted earlier, we
are not the people you need to convince as to the merits :-).

73, Paul W. Schleck, KD3FU

pschleck@unomaha.edu

Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc