On Mon, 22 May 2006 17:48:39 GMT, "Alaskan420"
wrote:

I have submitted a Request For Discussion (RFD) concerning the starting of a
newsgroup specifically designed for tournament fishing.

The discussion is going on now in: news.groups

Over the last few years I have found other fishing newsgroups to be
inundated with posts from people who have developed a new bait, want to talk
about that 2lb. bass they caught in their yard after the flood, or are
otherwise advertising something. It has become nearly impossible to find
worthwhile tournament info in any of the current newsgroups. As a matter of
fact I only propsed this after talking with several users who used to post
to rec.outdoors.fishing.bass and now find sifting through spam and off topic
posts to be too tedious.

Funny, did not notice any posts from them endorsing your new group at
news.groups.



My proposal is to create a newsgroup titled:
rec.outdoors.fishing.tournaments

This would include ALL forms of fresh and sal****er tournament fishing,
fishing methods specific to tournaments, rankings and statistics of
paticipants and description and discussion about tournament trails.
International, national, regional and local information and discussions are
acceptable.

If you have an opinion, pro or con, concerning the establishment of this new
newsgroup please go to: news.groups and voice your thoughts.

Thank You,

Richard Hamel
Proponent
rec.outdoors.fishing.tournaments



Richard, to be honest, after watching how you are going about this,
and this is just my personal opinion, you should probably set up a web
page for tournaments information and discussions instead of a news
group. You might even get a sponsor or two to help out with it.

I have helped set up news groups before, notably
rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors, a ham radio group. There was much
discussion and people for it before it was ever put out as an RFD. As
you have seen there is no discussion other than a few comments from
this group. You will need (IIRC) a minimum of 100 people voting for
it before it can be considered for group status. Unless you drum up a
lot more support from other groups, fishing clubs, tournament
associations, tourney anglers , fishing related web pages, tournament
pages and such before you will get the backing you will need. You
have already seen the start of the elite new newsgroup naysayers in
action. Don't let them get to you as some can be quite the obnoxious
ponce's (sp)

If you can get the support you need, submit it for a vote and get the
numbers of votes you need in the time frame allotted you may succeed.
I don't know how much you have researched forming a group but the hard
part is getting enough support for the vote long before you submit it
for a vote.

First thing to do is speak to the news group controllers about the
name of the new group. It needs to follow the hierarchy of names
already in use for the topic. There already has been negative
discussion on this.

Good luck and keep us informed on how it is going.


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