On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:44:38 -0000, "Martin Sykes"
wrote:

"Derek Turner" wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:46:00 -0000, "Martin Sykes"
wrote:

I don't see anyone in rec.gardens (which as I understand
it is about gardening worldwide) complaining about URG discussing UK
based
issues separately

that's what the uk hierarchy is for! whoever set it up would have had
to argue that gardening in the UK was sufficiently different from the
USA in order to start urg in the first place!


OK I can see where you're coming from if there are specific rules in place
for uk.* but is that what the objection is about? I guess if he wanted to
start rec.allotments or free.uk.gardening.allotments instead then he
wouldn't be bound by the same rules? In which case he would still have
exactly the same effect for better or worse on the content of URG.

Are we flooded with allotment posts so
sadly that we can't see the others? No! are allotments off-topic in
urg? definitely not!

Is there not also an argument though that it may be desirable to move a
topic precisely because it is low volume and a specialist interest. I don't
see URG being swamped by allotment posts but I can easily see a case for
saying that allotment posts are swamped by the volume of other information.

If you want to see the result of this type of logic take a look at
uk.rec.boats.motor
--
Martin