RFD: Talk.Religion.Bahai Jan 17,
1997
From: FG
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Subject: RFD: talk.religion.bahai
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Date: 17 Jan 1997 23:32:40 -0000
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REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
unmoderated group talk.religion.bahai
This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to create an
unmoderated
worldwide discussion group called talk.religion.bahai. This is
not a Call
for Votes (CFV); you cannot vote at this time. Procedural
details appear
below. All followup discussion should be crossposted to
news.groups.
Newsgroup line:
talk.religion.bahai Unmoderated discussion of the Bahai faith.
RATIONALE: talk.religion.bahai
All newsgroups and listservs given to the discussion of the
Bahai
faith are moderated. A need exists for an unmoderated forum,
and this
proposed newsgroup would meet that need.
The proponents intend that talk.religion.bahai will
complement, rather
than supplant, the existing moderated group
soc.religion.bahai. The
establishment of unmoderated companion groups is a
well-accepted
practice on Usenet. This newsgroup will be part of the talk.*
hierarchy, which is exclusively for unmoderated groups.
CHARTER: talk.religion.bahai
All topics or ideas relevant to the Bahai faith -- its
history,
teachings, theology -- and so on would be appropriate areas
for
discussion.
Crossposting of articles not specifically relevant to the
Bahai faith
is strongly discouraged. Also discouraged are personal
messages, large
ASCII graphics, special-format files, and any postings of a
purely
commercial nature.
Readers are asked not to start or prolong flamewars and
excessive
crossposts. Articles may be crossposted to soc.religion.bahai
--
subject, of course, to the approval of the moderator of that
group.
Readers may also post articles that have been rejected from
soc.religion.bahai, so long as they conform to the charter
above.
END CHARTER.
PROCEDURE:
The process of creating newsgroups is twofold. First is the
RFD
stage, when someone writes a Request for Discussion (RFD)
outlining
the purpose of the proposed group. The RFD appears in
news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, and other relevant
discussion
groups. Anyone may publicly comment on the RFD in news.groups
for a
three-week period. During the discussion phase, proponents may
modify
the RFD in response to suggestions from posters on
news.groups.
The second stage is the Call for Votes (CFV) stage. The
proposal must
pass a Usenet-wide vote with a 2/3 supermajority -- and at
least 100
more votes in favor than against -- to be created. Anyone with
an
e-mail address may cast a ballot. A neutral votetaker from the
Usenet
Volunteer Votetakers (UVV) conducts all CFV's.
This RFD attempts to comply with the Usenet newsgroup creation
guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet
Newsgroup" and
"Writing an RFD." Please refer to these documents if
you have further
questions about the process.
DISTRIBUTION:
This RFD has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups news.groups soc.religion.bahai,
soc.culture.iranian soc.culture.israel soc.religion.christian,
soc.religion.islam soc.rights.human, talk.religion.misc
and the following mailing lists:
Academic discussion of Bahai faith
Subscribe via: jsgreen@umich.edu
Academic discussion of Bahai gnosis
Subscribe via: (working on getting address)
Bahai discussion list
Pointers will appear in the following newsgroups:
soc.religion.unitarian-univ soc.religion.eastern,
soc.religion.gnosis soc.religion.hindu, soc.religion.mormon
soc.religion.paganism soc.religion.quaker,
soc.religion.sikhism, soc.religion.vaishnava,
soc.religion.atheism, talk.religion.buddhism,
talk.religion.newage talk.religion.misc
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Proponent: FG
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