Re: RFD: create unmoderated newsgroup uk.tech.heating

In article <oe-dne8qZflRyjbenZ2dnUVZ8t2dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxx>,
"Nick Booth" <angusmcdangle@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I mused over the name for sometime. I'm not 100% happy with it, but it
> seems to cover 95% of related topics ('cookers' is one which doesn't seem to
> fit in the conventional sense, although would be a welcome and appropriate
> discussion topic in the group).
> At the end of the day, I would like to see a group containing posts related
> to the Gas/Oil and heating trade, not a group where people are discussing
> washing machines and light bulbs, and only every 25th post may be related to
> heating, but the subject text is so vague you have to open the post. Maybe
> the inclusion of 'commercial' is the stumbling block here? Limit it to
> 'domestic'? The odd OT commercial post would be handled I'm sure!

'commercial'/'domestic' is not a problem.
The problem is that most of this discussion currently takes place
in uk.d-i-y, and you have not said what effect you would wish your
new group to have on that. Based on what you said in another posting
this would appear to be because you have a misconception of the current
coverage of uk.d-i-y (your analysis of what it covers was wrong).
I would expect you to have a good understanding of the current
situation and how you wish it to change before asking for a new
newsgroup.

Once in a while, someone suggests splitting uk.d-i-y into several
component parts of which heating is one part, but such proposals
have always failed to date (usually before even getting to the RFD).

Secondly, even supposing it was possible to have a UK heating
newsgroup which was not DIY, where are those posts currently going?
Just creating a group doesn't create a viable community of posters;
they really need to exist somewhere already, and be willing to move
across to the new newsgroup. I am not aware of any such (which is
not to say they don't exist, but no one has pointed me to them yet).

--
Andrew Gabriel
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