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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!v31g2000vbs.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: How Long Does One Have to "Enact" a Passed RFD? Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:24:53 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 29 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300749894 13006 127.0.0.1 (21 Mar 2011 23:24:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:24:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v31g2000vbs.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2712 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:39182

Say, for the sake of argument, there was some kind of RFD on URCM, which passed, but actually doing what was stated in the RFD couldn't be done until a new platform was found. Would it be permissible to delay "enacting" the RFD until a new platform was found, and if so, for how long?

I'm just thinking that finding a new platform might be easier if it were definitely going to be required, so that concrete proposals could be put forward and actioned, rather than dealing in hypotheticals because everything depended on a forthcoming RFD going the "right" way, which makes it difficult to get much actually done.

I realise that there are potential problems with doing things this way (not least the probable toys-out-of-the-pram withdrawal of the original platform as soon as the RFD won, whether or not the RFD was actioned straight away), but I just wondered whether it was even an option to "get the RFD out of the way" first and then start negotiating a new platform. (Of course, it would be possible if necessary to leave the group temporarily unmoderated during this negotiating period.)

I think there is a consensus that the current regime is unacceptable, and we shouldn't be held to ransom by a tyrant dictator holding a gun to our heads and threatening to pull the trigger if anyone tries to depose him. We may need to be creative in order to get a result, but surely doing pretty much anything is better than maintaining the status quo. URCM has had quite enough time to "bed down" and, in its current form, is unequivocally a failure as a moderated newsgroup. Change, somehow, is a must.