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

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:47:44 GMT, Rusty Hinge 2
<rusty.hinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The message <43ab6530$0$255$5a6aecb4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>from andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Gabriel) contains these words:

>I think you have an incorrect conception of the reasons for proposing
>the group. I don't know about you, but uk.d-i-y would not spring to *MY*
>mind as an obvious place to ask about plumbing in my Rayburn for
>instance,

But uk tech.heating would for a Cooker? Takes all sorts I suppose.

>or asking about how to make an American riser.

Alt.religion.christian of course. Uk.politics if you must.

>> 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).
>
>I think there is a clear need for hiving-off such a clearly-defined
>compartment of DIY, especially as many of the likely questions will not
>(legally) apply to DIYers.

Which questions will not legally apply?

>> Secondly, even supposing it was possible to have a UK heating
>> newsgroup which was not DIY, where are those posts currently going?
>
>Outside the uk.* hierarchy, doubtless.

Or, more likely, they just don't exist.

>Having searched, our server carries no group with 'heating' in its
>title. IMO, that's a good enough reason for creating the group,

I can't find a single group anywhere (not just in the limited list
you seem to use) which contains the word "Disodiumphosphate". Is
that a good enough reason for creating a new group?

>and I
>back that up by assuring you that I would have looked for such a group
>in a few weeks as I'm currently mining clay-lump blocks and stuff in the
>kitchen chimneybreast (and introducing a FO big oak beam to stop it
>dropping into the soup) to make a large enough drift into which to
>squeeze a Rayburn.

You might find dear old Google would have helped. Put Rayburn in to
it on a group search and the first reference is to uk.d-i-y,,
"chimney breast clay lumps" produces the same as does "clay lumps" or
"big oak beam" (second reference in the latter two cases) so it
wouldn't have been too hard.

>Fast-track!

Porkine aviation?

--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/
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