XPost: rec.photo.digital, rec.photo.equipment.35mm 
  
 In news.groups Alan Browne  wrote: 
 >Steve Young wrote: 
 >> Will this be addressing new charters for the 2 original groups (rpd & 
 >> rpe35mm) which are impacted by the new group(s)? 
  
 >no. 
  
 I highly doubt there is a way to address those charters with the 
 existing process that won't be majorly disruptive on those groups 
 (e.g. renaming the existing groups which is actually performed 
 by removing the old group and creating a new one with the new name 
 - all postings in the existing queue are removed and the "renamed" 
 group begins anew).  It would be unfair to demand proponents even 
 consider the idea unless the readers of the affected groups are 
 willing to accept such disruptions. 
  
 There is an unrelated issue, though.  Russ or Todd will have to rule 
 on this, but keep the following in mind.  This proposal involves an 
 established and fairly specialized hierarchy, postings are expected 
 to come from at least one parent or parent-like group, it seeks to 
 resolve problems in at least one group in the hierarchy, it expects 
 to have other posting impacts in other groups in the hierarchy, and 
 it is highly probable the same is true of this other proposal.  In 
 similar situations, one of two things are supposed to happen: both 
 proposal merge (a two group proposal), or the later of the two 
 proposals is deferred until the first has completed the process. 
  
 ru 
  
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 My standard proposals rant: 
 Quality, usefulness, merit, or non-newsgroups popularity of a topic 
 is more or less irrelevant in creating a new Big-8 newsgroup. 
 Usenet popularity is the primary consideration. 
  
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