Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> High Plains Thumper on Saturday
>
>> Following is excerpted from:
>>
>> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/linux/advocacy/faq-and-primer/
>>
>> <snip />
>>
>> 1.4 The Charter of comp.os.linux.advocacy
>>
>> The charter of comp.os.linux.advocacy is:
>>
>> For discussion of the benefits of Linux compared to
>> other operating systems.
>>
>> That single sentence is the one and only charter of the
>> newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy. The newsgroup's
>> charter is for the newsgroup as a place for supporters
>> of Linux to gather to discuss Linux, for the betterment
>> of the Linux community and the promotion and
>> development of Linux. It supports this as a place for
>> those who would like to learn more about Linux to come
>> to learn from those who know Linux. It does not call
>> for it to be a place where the anti-Linux propagandists
>> to gather in order to discredit Linux.
>
> I hope you set this post to a weekly recurrence. It's more
> valuable than it may seem on the surface.
True. Minimum posting should be at least monthly, I'll give it
a shot. Also, we know that this so called second charter that
some have brought up in the past, in truth does not exist.
Reference:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/browse_frm
/thread/3a36eaf74cc73f/dc0c7bfeb17f459f?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1
&hl=en#dc0c7bfeb17f459f
or http://tinyurl.com/g4f4k
> Following is the historical context:
>
> Mr. Dave Sill <d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted to various
> newsgroups subject, "2nd RFD: comp.os.linux reorganization"
> Dated: 14 Oct 1994.
>
> Post is archived at
>
> ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/comp/co
> mp .os.linux-reorg3
>
> or http://tinyurl.com/egj8s (user friendly of the same)
>
> Reorganisation was prompted by excessive levels of traffic
> in comp.os.linux.help newsgroup. Mr. Sill initiated a
> Request for Discussion (RFD), which after discussion and
> approval, resulted in 5 additional groups being added.
> c.o.l.help was relegated to c.o.l.misc with c.o.l.help
> being retired.
>
> c.o.l.help was replaced with:
>
> 1) comp.os.linux.advocacy - For discussion of the benefits
> of Linux compared to other operating systems.
>
> 2) comp.os.linux.development.apps - For questions and
> discussion regarding the writing of applications for Linux
> and the porting of applications to Linux.
>
> 3) comp.os.linux.hardware - For questions and discussion
> specific to a particular piece of hardware.
>
> 4) comp.os.linux.networking - For questions and discussion
> relating to networking or communications.
>
> 5) comp.os.linux.x - For questions and discussion relating
> to X Window System.
>
> Thus, group c.o.l.advocacy originated out of c.o.l.help.
>
> It was born out of a need to expand help categories.
> Charter for c.o.l.help was, "Discussion of Linux-specific
> questions and advice".
>
> Per RFD, "This proposed reorganization was prompted
> originally by the excessive level of traffic in
> comp.os.linux.help. Following a straw poll conducted by
> the proponent, an RFD was posted for breaking
> comp.os.linux.help into various subgroups and creating
> comp.os.linux.answers for separating the documentation and
> announcements currently posted to comp.os.linux.announce.
> During the discussion period, it became evident that it
> would be preferable to create the groups directly under
> comp.os.linux, rather than splitting comp.os.linux.help."
>
> A relationship between "help" and "advocacy" is
> established.
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