Subject: RFD: comp.mail.imap

From: [email-masked] (Neal A. Dillman)
Date: 1 Nov 1995 22:13:27 -0000

REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
                   unmoderated group comp.mail.imap

Newsgroup line:
comp.mail.imap		Internet Message Access Protocol discussion group.

Proponent: Neal A. Dillman <[email-masked]>

RATIONALE: comp.mail.imap

        Discussions of IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) currently take
place accross ~nine different news groups.  As a result, users are forced to
read and/or post to a number of mail groups in order to acquire the desired
information.  Creating comp.mail.imap will limit the need for crossposting and
create a central place for IMAP related discussion.

CHARTER: comp.mail.imap

To provide a forum for the discussion of IMAP, IMSP, and other protocols
interacting with IMAP and IMSP.  The discussion will include information
about and/or relating to IMAP clients, servers, and "middleware."  The group
will not be moderated.

END CHARTER.

PROCEDURE:

This message initiates a discussion period to consider the creation of
a comp.mail.imap newsgroup. Discussion will take place on news.groups.
If discussions are made in other newsgroups, they should always be
cross-posted to news.groups.

* This is not a call for votes. Please do not attempt to vote now.
  A call for votes (CFV) will we issued approximately 3 weeks after this RFD.
  When the CFV is posted, there will be instructions on how to mail your
  votes to the independant vote-taker.

DISTRIBUTION:

This RFD is in accordance with the Guidelines for Newsgroups Creation, and
has been cross-posted to the following relevant newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups,comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.mime,comp.mail.misc,
comp.mail.multi-media,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.mail,
comp.mail,comp.mail.pine,news.groups