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Want a group for PONDS

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I’m casting my vote for a group ‘rec.gardens.ponds’.  Anyone else who’s interested please post a vote!

I would vote for a pond group. There is a wealth of pure pond ideas that need to to be concentrated in one notes file. morrie

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I’m casting my vote for a group ‘rec.gardens.ponds’.  Anyone else who’s interested please post a vote!

Please add my name to the list of pondkeepers who would like to see a newsgroup dedicated to pond and bog gardening. —   Earl Rook                      USDA Zone 4 (Tending to Zone 3)             Saint Paul, Minnesota          Bog, Pond, Urban, and Wildlife Gardening  

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Please add my name as well <—-prospective pond owner (come Spring  :  )

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Please add my name as well — FAX: 719-590-5701

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Please add my name as well — FAX: 719-590-5701

please include me in too.  I need all the help I can get and am happy to pass along what I did wrong.  Dave B.

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here’s one more vote Media/Communications Specialist                  voice:  (217)333-9439 College of Agriculture University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Please add my name as well — FAX: 719-590-5701

Please add my name as well.

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Add another YES vote for PONDS

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: <I’m casting my vote for a group ‘rec.gardens.ponds’.  Anyone else who’s : <interested please post a vote! :     I vote yes!!      DAVE Once again, I agree! natasha

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Please add my name as well

Count me in as well Loretta Metcalf loretta j. metcalf

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Me too! What do we have to do to start this?

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: Add another YES vote for PONDS mee too water gardens, ponds, hydroponics etc are becoming increasingly popular as technology improves and equipment and supplys become more avialable and cheaper i’d compare it to the growth in saltwater aquariums over the past couple of decades

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Sounds great to me, someone start one, please! Jason C. McCoy Academic Student Consultant University Computer Services

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[note that followups have been set to news.groups] Me too! What do we have to do to start this?

Right now, nothing. Both the .aquaria contingent and the .gardens contingent want a .ponds subgroup. I’ve been negotiating behind the scenes with various parties and have reached a consensus that plain old rec.ponds would be a more appropriate name, as a .ponds groups spans both groups pretty evenly. There’s a discussion going on in news.groups right now. When the times comes to vote on the group (still a few weeks away) you’ll receive an anouncement in this group, at which time you vote by emailing the vote taker, not by posting your vote to the net. An additional rationale for this is the idea that over the years rec.gardens can be considered to be an innapropriate top level group. Back in the early primordial soup of usenet and there was nothing except computer weenies, rec.gardens was a sensible choice, but I feel if we had to fo it today we might have done something like this: rec.plants.misc rec.plants.orchids rec.plants.bonsai rec.plants.gardens rec.plants.roses (which could, I suppose be rec.gardens.roses) and so on and maybe: sci.bio.plants To make bionet.plants more mainstream; sometimes bionet is a tough hierarchy to get. Instead the bonsai people are over in rec.arts.bonsai, and the orchid folks being in rec.gardens.orchids which always seemed to me to be a dubious name, as most orchids arn’t in gardens, they’re in greenhouses; even so rec.greenhouses.orchids doesnt seem any better — Richard J. Sexton,  “Daydreaming must end now.”    VRx Network Services

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I’m casting my vote for a group ‘rec.gardens.ponds’.  Anyone else who’s interested please post a vote!

From this and other similar postings there certainly appears that there may be enough interest to create a new group on ponds/water gardening. Posting favorable votes to the rec.gardens group, however, will not get a new group formed. The guidelines for forming a new newsgroup are quite specific and can be found in news.announce.newusers as well as other sources. These guidelines include directions for conducting a formal discussion period and subsequent election. Please, I don’t mean this as a flame or criticism, but I don’t want folks to be misled into thinking that casting votes here will accomplish anything other than demonstrating support for the concept. If someone would generously volunteer to take the lead in this effort I think many of us would be willing to help her/him out as much as possible. Unfortunately I cannot be that volunteer at this time due to a combination of limited time and lack of adequate net knowledge & skills. If nobody else wants to "jump in" now I may be willing and able to give it a shot in a year or so, but not at this time unfortunately. Regards – Bill Bill Stoffel              |  CARDEROCKDIV, NSWC  |                        | (410) 293-3825            |  Annapolis, MD 21402 |                        |

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: I’m casting my vote for a group ‘rec.gardens.ponds’.  Anyone else who’s : interested please post a vote! : From this and other similar postings there certainly appears that there : may be enough interest to create a new group on ponds/water gardening. : Posting favorable votes to the rec.gardens group, however, will not : get a new group formed. The guidelines for forming a new newsgroup are : quite specific and can be found in news.announce.newusers as well as : other sources. These guidelines include directions for conducting a : formal discussion period and subsequent election. : Please, I don’t mean this as a flame or criticism, but I don’t want : folks to be misled into thinking that casting votes here will accomplish : anything other than demonstrating support for the concept. : If someone would generously volunteer to take the lead in this effort : I think many of us would be willing to help her/him out as much as possible. : Unfortunately I cannot be that volunteer at this time due to a combination : of limited time and lack of adequate net knowledge & skills. If nobody : else wants to "jump in" now I may be willing and able to give it a shot : in a year or so, but not at this time unfortunately. : Regards – Bill : Bill Stoffel              |  CARDEROCKDIV, NSWC  |                        | : (410) 293-3825            |  Annapolis, MD 21402 |                        | Bill, You’re absolutely right. In fact, I have already sent an RFD to the news.groups people and they told me to wait as they had received a similar RFD that was still on the drawing board.  THAT WAS TWO MONTHS AGO!! I have "nagged" the News folks about letting us get on with things and I also posted the RFD here on rec.gardens for people to start voicing opinions. (Perhaps you didn’t see it?) I can re-post the "proposed RFD" if anyone’s interested. J. Wallis

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Me too!  Catherine

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I’m casting my vote for a group ‘rec.gardens.ponds’.  Anyone else who’s interested please post a vote!

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<I’m casting my vote for a group ‘rec.gardens.ponds’.  Anyone else who’s <interested please post a vote!     I vote yes!!      DAVE

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