Summing up the latest thread on this recurring topic:

1. Everyone who commented seemed to think it's a good idea, even if they
didn't all agree it was necessary. I certainly didn't see any "what a
horrible idea" posts.

2. Some folks proposed just making RAP moderated instead, but there's
much less consensus on this. Most tellingly, nobody volunteered to
moderate.

3. While RAP's charter has nothing to do with politics, there is some
interest (though certainly not on my part) in discussing politics with
people you already know, so that existing political newsgroups don't fit
the bill.

4. Of the folks who thought it was a good idea to have a saloon
newsgroup, nobody felt that he personally had the time to create it.

With that in mind, the fact that we've just lost another longtime
poster, and the fact that despite killfiles and ignore-thread commands
I'm still finding too high an SNR here, I *do* volunteer to create it.

Two questions for the first order of business:

1. Is "rec.audio.pro.saloon" the agreed-upon name? Another proposal was
rec.audio.pro.offtopic, which is certainly clearer but somewhat less fun
and less tone-setting. Is anyone actually opposed to the *name* of
r.a.p.s?

2. Is anyone actually opposed to the *idea* of r.a.p.s? That is, when
it comes to a vote, is anyone planning to vote no, and if so, could you
provide some counter-arguments, so perhaps we could head off the
concerns?

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