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FAST TRACK ANNOUNCEMENT	    uk.media.broadband-remove
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In the procedures established for maintaining the uk.* hierarchy
<http://www.usenet.org.uk/guidelines.html> there are provisions, where
there is a consensus and the proposal is straightforward and
non-controversial, to proceed by the "fast-track" method, so as to avoid
the necessity for holding a full vote.

I have now received a request to fast-track the following proposal:

             Remove unmoderated newsgroup uk.media.broadband

This proposal will be activated no earlier than five days from the posting
of this notice (i.e. not before October 10th), unless there are
objections (of which six or more, or any one which seems to the Committee
to be well founded, shall suffice to halt the process).

Objections should be emailed directly to Control at
.

Objections will be resolved by the committee (committee@usenet.org.uk)

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RATIONALE

Traffic to this group has dropped to a level indistinguishable from
zero, and the posts that are written would tend to be better served by
posting to uk.telecom.broadband anyway, being enquiries of a technical
telecoms nature. According to Cambridge University hierarchy stats,
the 2006 monthly posts to this group were:

Jan 06: 9
Feb 06: 42
Mar 06: 12
Apr 06: 10
May 06: 15
Jun 06: 16
Jul 06: 3
Aug 06: 3  (not listed in the stats, but that's what my newsreader
shows)

If this group were to be removed then the traffic could easily be
accomodated within the existing telecoms or media groups, which are
far healthier.

PROPOSAL

That the newsgroup uk.media.broadband be rmgrouped.

END PROPOSAL

CURRENT CHARTER: uk.media.broadband

The newsgroup discusses the content of media programming available
through the Internet to UK users. The scope of the newsgroup includes
both live as well as recorded content for both UK and non-UK
programming, whether Internet-specific, currently broadcast or
archived.

Also on-topic for this group is discussion of the technology
and processes used to acquire and play the programming.

The existence of this group shall not be taken as advocating
piracy or illegal distribution of copyrighted material.

Where a programme is likely at some future date to be transmitted on
UK analogue terrestrial television or radio, consideration space (or
"spoiler space") of at least 30  blank lines shall precede discussion
of any programming content. This is to protect readers of the group
who do not yet wish to see discussion of newer shows.

Appropriate tags, of a form generally recognised by users 
of the group shall also be used where consensus warrants it. The tags
shall be delimited by square brackets, and contain an agreed 
identifier, all in upper case. For example: "[24] "  or "[ALIAS] ".

Advertising

Advertising is forbidden.

Binaries & Formatting

Encoded binaries (e.g. pictures, compressed files, etc.) are 
forbidden. Such material belongs on a web or FTP site to which
a pointer may be posted. Cryptographic signatures (e.g. PGP) 
may be used where authentication is important and should be as
short as possible.

Posts must be readable as plain text. HTML, RTF and similarly
formatted messages are prohibited. To see how to make some
common newsreaders comply with this, read
<http://www.usenet.org.uk/ukpost.html>.

Crossposting

Crossposting to groups with strict spoiler policies is 
forbidden due to the risk of charter breaches within those
groups. In any event, crossposting shall be limited to
one other relevant group.

Warning

Anyone posting contrary to this charter may be reported to their
"postmaster" and/or Service Provider.

Proponent: 
        Paul Harper 

END CHARTER

Proponent:
        Paul Harper 

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Chris Croughton ---------------------------------------------------------------
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