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<p>Created page with &#039;&lt;pre&gt; From: Jayne Kulikauskas &lt;jayne.kulikauskas@gmail.com&gt; Subject: RFD: reorganization of the misc.education.home-school.* hierarchy Newsgroups: misc.education.home-school.chri…&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;pre&gt;<br /> From: Jayne Kulikauskas &lt;jayne.kulikauskas@gmail.com&gt;<br /> Subject: RFD: reorganization of the misc.education.home-school.* hierarchy<br /> Newsgroups: misc.education.home-school.christian, news.announce.newgroups,<br /> misc.education.home-school.misc, news.groups.proposals<br /> Followup-To: news.groups.proposals<br /> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:37:43 -0500<br /> Organization: http://www.big-8.org/<br /> <br /> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)<br /> reorganization of the misc.education.home-school.* hierarchy<br /> <br /> This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the reorganization of a <br /> Usenet hierarchy, as listed below:<br /> <br /> <br /> NEWSGROUPS: <br /> <br /> misc.education.home-school.resources blogs, websites, curricula, conferences, etc. (Moderated)<br /> misc.education.home-school.christian remove, merge into m.e.h-s.misc<br /> <br /> <br /> RATIONALE: <br /> <br /> This proposal calls for the reorganization of the misc.education.home-school<br /> sub-hierarchy by the addition of a moderated announcement group and the<br /> consolidation of two under-utilized unmoderated groups into one. The<br /> moderated group is envisioned as a place for descriptions, reviews and<br /> links for homeschooling-related web sites, discussion fora and blogs. It<br /> could also include information about other homeschooling resources, both<br /> online and off, and homeschooling conferences. This would be a low<br /> traffic moderated group that would not have discussions on it. It would<br /> direct people interested in moderated discussion to the meh-sc.org web<br /> forum or to misc.education.home-school.misc if they prefer something<br /> unmoderated.<br /> <br /> The group removal is in order to consolidate the very small amount of<br /> home-schooling discussion taking place in two existing unmoderated<br /> groups into one place. There are four main possibilities for dealing<br /> with the existing groups: Retain the status quo. Remove both and<br /> create an new unmoderated group. Remove misc.education.home-school.misc<br /> and direct its traffic to misc.education.home-school. Remove<br /> misc.education.home-school.christian and direct its traffic to<br /> misc.education.home-school.misc. While all of these have disadvantages,<br /> the last of the possibilities seems the best to the proponent.<br /> <br /> The status quo is that there is no longer homeschooling discussion in<br /> misc.education.home-school.misc. Requests for homeschooling information<br /> are unanswered. The main non-spam content consists of periodic resource<br /> posts by Steven Saus - links to educational sites that may be of interest<br /> to homeschoolers. Meanwhile, misc.education.home-school.christian is<br /> flooded by posts from a nym-shifting anti-homeschooler. The situation<br /> became so untenable that the majority of regular posters migrated to a<br /> web forum around a year ago. The few remaining regulars rarely discuss<br /> homeschooling from a specifically Christian perspective. They are not<br /> even all Christian homeschoolers. The group does not match its newsgroup<br /> line description or its charter. Both groups are of very limited use to<br /> people seeking home-schooling information or support.<br /> <br /> Removing both of these and replacing them with a new group is impractical<br /> due to propogation issues. Consolidating the groups under the<br /> misc.education.home-school.christian name does not match the nature of the<br /> current discussion. While the name misc.education.home-school.misc is a<br /> better match, the remains of a community and the small amount of current<br /> discussion exist on misc.education.home-school.christian. These people do<br /> not like the idea of removing their group.<br /> <br /> Whatever is decided about the disposition of the unmoderated groups, the<br /> most important part of this proposal is the creation of the moderated<br /> group. This creation would mean that once again Usenet would be relevant<br /> to people seeking homeschooling information and support.<br /> <br /> <br /> CHARTER:<br /> <br /> misc.education.home-school.resources is a moderated group intended to<br /> provide information about resources that will be helpful to<br /> homeschoolers. Suitable topics include descriptions/reviews of<br /> homeschoolers&#039; blogs, homeschooling discussion fora and information<br /> sites. It also welcomes information about homeschooling books and<br /> curricula and announcements of upcoming conferences. It is not<br /> intended for discussions.<br /> <br /> <br /> MODERATION POLICY: misc.education.home-school.resources<br /> <br /> misc.education.home-school.resources is expected to be a low traffic group<br /> that can be easily hand moderated. Limited commercial advertising will<br /> be allowed.<br /> <br /> <br /> MODERATOR INFO: misc.education.home-school.resources<br /> <br /> Moderator: Vic Kulikauskas &lt;dadkulio@yahoo.ca&gt;<br /> Advisory Moderator: Chris Barnes &lt;moderator@txbarnes.com&gt;<br /> <br /> More moderators are sought for the moderation panel.<br /> <br /> <br /> Article Submissions: TBD<br /> Administrative Contact: TBD<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> PROCEDURE:<br /> <br /> For more information on the newsgroup creation process, please see:<br /> <br /> http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:creation<br /> <br /> Those who wish to influence the development of this RFD and its final<br /> resolution should subscribe to news.groups.proposals and participate in the<br /> relevant threads in that newsgroup. This is both a courtesy to groups in<br /> which discussion of creating a new group is off-topic as well as the best<br /> method of making sure that one&#039;s comments or criticisms are heard.<br /> <br /> All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.proposals.<br /> To this end, the &#039;Followup-To&#039; header of this RFD has been set to this group.<br /> <br /> If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, the discussion<br /> may be crossposted to those groups, but care must be taken to ensure<br /> that all discussion appears in news.groups.proposals as well.<br /> <br /> We urge those who would like to read or post in the proposed newsgroup<br /> to make a comment to that effect in this thread; we ask proponents to<br /> keep a list of such positive posts with the relevant message ID<br /> (e.g., Barney Fife, &lt;4JGdnb60fsMzHA7ZnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net&gt;).<br /> Such lists of positive feedback for the proposal may constitute good<br /> evidence that the group will be well-used if it is created.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> DISTRIBUTION:<br /> <br /> This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:<br /> <br /> news.announce.newgroups (moderated)<br /> news.groups.proposals (moderated)<br /> misc.education.home-school.christian<br /> misc.education.home-school.misc<br /> <br /> The proponent will also post pointers to:<br /> <br /> http://www.meh-sc.org/<br /> <br /> <br /> PROPONENT:<br /> <br /> Jayne Kulikauskas &lt;jayne.kulikauskas@gmail.com&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> CHANGE HISTORY:<br /> <br /> 2007-10-22 1st RFD<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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