Author: Jonathan Grobe author profile
Email:grobe@netins.net
Date:1997/04/03
Forums:alt.religion.bahai, alt.config, news.groups,
soc.culture.iranian, alt.religion.islam,
talk.religion.misc
The vote for the unmoderated group talk.religion.bahai has just
failed 157:691. But given that there were 157 Yes votes I believe there
is sufficient interest for an alt.* group.
alt.religion.bahai, a newsgroup for the discussion of the Bahai faith
has just been created.
The message to create the group may take from a couple hours to
a few days to reach your site. Many news administrators only add
new alt.* groups on user request. So if it has not been added to your
site in the next few days ask your news administrator to add it:
Write to him at the address news or usenet at your site or to the
technical support people there (address: support)). Because of the
poor propagation of new alt groups it will be a while before a
significant amount of traffic shows up.
[Adapted from the talk.religion.bahai proposal]
RATIONALE: alt.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.
It is intended that alt.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.
CHARTER: alt.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.
--
Jonathan Grobe <grobe@netins.net>
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