Nan:2006-10-30-victory-rfd
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: John Corliss <rtd3ws at yahoo dot com>
Subject: RFD: rec.motorcycles.victory
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, rec.motorcycles,
rec.motorcycles.harley, rec.motorcycles.tech
Followup-To: news.groups
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:04:46 -0800
REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
unmoderated group rec.motorcycles.victory
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of the
unmoderated Usenet newsgroup, rec.motorcycles.victory.
NEWSGROUPS LINE: rec.motorcycles.victory
rec.motorcycles.victory Polaris Victory motorcycle rides, tech, resources.
RATIONALE: rec.motorcycles.victory
To promote the safe use of Victory motorcycles as well as to better
develop social connections among Victory riders, it's vital for owners
to be able to easily exchange information on a world-wide basis and this
newsgroup will fill that need.
There are a several online forums available for discussing Victory
motorcycles:
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/VictoryDigest/
http://forums.thevmc.com/megabbs/category-view.asp
http://savr.phpbbnow.com/
http://victorypowerriders.com/phpBB2/index.php
http://www.illinoisvictoryriders.com/forums/
http://www.kingpincruisers.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,38/
http://www.mwmotorcycles.com/forum/index.php?board=54.0
http://www.rideavictory.com/forum/
http://www.tcvr.us/messages/
http://www.thvmc.com/forums/
http://www.v-twinforum.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=120
http://www.victory-motorcycle.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi
http://www.vmclinks.com/x/modules/newbb/
...but many of them are more or less regionally limited, require
registration or membership, and-or are difficult to find.
Usenet motorcycle newsgroups are generally for the discussion of
other makes of motorcycles and-or the participant communicates in
non-English languages. The rec.motorcycles group is an exception but is
too generalized and far too active (currently well over 100,000 posts
have been made in that group and the rate is well over 200 posts a day.)
Although rec.motorcycles might work for an occasional question,
getting a useful answer to a question from another Victory owner is much
less likely due to the vast readership.
Ownership and interest in Victory motorcyles has grown to the point
where there will be adequate interest to support a make-specific
newsgroup. This would be similar to the way rec.motorcyles.harley serves
the community of those interested in Harley Davidson motorcyles.
Based on the topic alone, there would be no (or at least very little)
overlap with other motorcycle groups and rec.motorcycles.victory would
be easy to locate for Victory owners who are usenet savvy.
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS:
2006-10-29 analysis of existing motorcycle newsgroup activity is as follows:
GROUP NAME CURRENT ARTICLE COUNT
nordunet.rec.motorcycles 6
alt.uk.motorcycles.harley 62
tamu.clubs.motorcycles 69
tnn.rec.motorcycles 70
ky.motorcycles 72
alt.motorcycles.mrf 130
pa.motorcycle 309
ne.motorcycles 376
alt.motorcycles.abate 459
can.rec.motorcycles 618
ni.motorcycles 760
alt.binaries.pictures.motorcycles 874
uk.rec.motorcycles.trailriding 1096
r j.rec.motorcycles 1431
alt.motorcycles.ducati 1536
nyc.motorcycles 1784
be.rec.motorcycles 2985
alt.binaries.pictures.motorcycles.sportbike 3758
alt.binaries.pictures.motorcycles.harley 8052
alt.motorcycles.yamaha 9740
rec.motorcycles.racing 14724
alt.motorcycles 14872
ba.motorcycles 19484
otimotorcycles 21411
rec.motorcycles.tech 22189
uk.rec.motorcycles.classic 25085
alt.motorcycles.harley 30582
tx.motorcycles 50340
tw.bbs.rec.motorcycle 55328
alt.motorcycle.sportbike 89004
rec.motorcycles.dirt 122735
aus.motorcycles 150446
rec.motorcycles.harley 229118
rec.motorcycles 281282
uk.rec.motorcycles 702114
CHARTER:
rec.motorcycles.victory is for discussion of all aspects of Polaris
Victory motorcycles, hereafter referred to simply as "Victory"
motorcycles. Topics include technical discussion, ride reports, product
and new model reviews and announcements of upcoming rides.
Posters are expected to abide by normal Usenet standards of decorum (for
example, lurking a while before posting, etc.) and to refrain from
sending, as well as ignore, articles intended to disrupt the group.
Bottom posting will be the norm.
Examples of inappropriate posts are the following:
* Off topic articles, including:
- Commercial advertisements
- Personal advertisements not related to Victory motorcycles
- General discussions not related to Victory motorcycles
- Money-making schemes
- Chain letters
- EMP AKA "excessive multiple posting" spam
* Articles with unacceptable content, such as:
- HTML
- Copyright violations
- Excessive quoting
- Threats and/or advocation of violence
- Binaries, except PGP signatures, X-Face headers, and other
ancillary meta-data
* Attempts to subvert message filtering or to pretend to be somebody
else, such as:
- Forgery or imitation of a valid e-mail address
- Excessive morphing/nym-shifting AKA "using sock puppets"
The group will be unmoderated and will not be gated to a mailing list.
PROCEDURE:
For more information on the newsgroup creation process, please see:
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:creation
Those who wish to influence the development of this RFD and its final
resolution should subscribe to news.groups and participate in the
relevant threads in that newsgroup. This is both a courtesy to groups
in which discussion of creating a new group is off-topic as well as the
best method of making sure that one's comments or criticisms are heard.
All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.
To this end, the followup header of this RFD has been set to
news.groups.
If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, the discussion
may be crossposted to those groups, but care must be taken to ensure
that all discussion appears in news.groups as well.
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
rec.motorcycles
rec.motorcycles.harley
rec.motorcycles.tech
The proponent will also post pointers to:
alt.motorcycles.abate
alt.motorcycles.harley
uk.rec.motorcycles
tx.motorcycles
aus.motorcycles
PROPONENT:
John Corliss <rtd3ws at yahoo dot com>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2006-10-30 1st RFD
