Replied: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 18:02:16 EDT Replied: "zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (Dave Budd) " From news@yama.mcc.ac.uk Tue Oct 1 17:43:49 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id RAA13006; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 17:43:48 -0400 Received: from newsm.Belgium.EU.net by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA09555; Tue, 1 Oct 96 17:38:56 EDT Received: from news1.Belgium.EU.net (news1.Belgium.EU.net [193.74.210.130]) by newsm.Belgium.EU.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA23608 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 22:22:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from yama.mcc.ac.uk (yama.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.203.29]) by news1.Belgium.EU.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA15756 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 23:39:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from yama.mcc.ac.uk by yama.mcc.ac.uk id <01427-0@yama.mcc.ac.uk>; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 09:42:05 +0100 To: uk-answers@moderators.uu.net Path: db.mcc.ac.uk!zlsiida From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (Dave Budd) Newsgroups: uk.rec.sheds,uk.answers Subject: uk.rec.sheds faq version 0p5 Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 08:41:53 GMT Organization: Manchester Computing Centre Lines: 292 Message-Id: Nntp-Posting-Host: db.mcc.ac.uk Sender: news@yama.mcc.ac.uk FAQ for newsgroup uk.rec.sheds version 0.5 96-10-01 (roughly) ============================== "When?" uk.rec.sheds was created shortly after May 8th 96 (when the vote passed). It all started some time ago when some threads on the subject of shedding in soc.culture.british led the Master JD to post a "faquette" and, later, myself to post a joke RFD for the newsgroup. This was picked up by The Guardian's Jackdaw column, and that recognition spurred me (I'm Dave Budd) on to do a real RFD and a subsequent CFV. Eventually the vote came in at 60 for, 25 against, and 1 abstention. "What?" This newsgroup is about sheds: those usually small and usually wooden structures usually found in the garden which usually house a cornucopia of usually useless items, and various related structures and spaces. It's not about houses for railway engines, pop groups with silly names, excessive boozing, or slang uses of 'shed' which include a derogatory term for vehicles and something sexual which we prefer not to enquire into. [remainder of text deleted by folder-shrink.pl]