jzubairi@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Junaid Ahmed Zubairi) (02/27/90)
This is the formal "call for votes" for the creation of a world-wide,
UNMODERATED Soc.Culture.Pakistan newsgroup on USENET.
The discussion period for creation of soc.culture.pakistan has already
ended and a lot of interest was observed during the discussion period.
The proposed newsgroup is intended to generally provide a medium for those
interested to express, share, and exchange their views, ideas, and feelings
about Pakistan and Pakistani culture.
Possible discussion issues include aspects of Pakistani
- culture, history, philosophy, ideology, geography;
- societies, traditions, customs;
- literature, poetry, art, folklore;
- languages, books;
- science, technology;
- food, cookery;
- local events, news, programs, economy;
- communities abroad, problems, needs; and
- *things* normally discussed in the "soc.culture" newsgroups.
To Vote, send an e-mail to:
jzubairi@rodan.acs.syr.edu
OR simply reply to this message.
Voting period will last from Feb 26th, until Midnight, March 18th, 1990.
As per USENET newsgroup creation guidelines,
- Votes MUST be explicit; they should be of the form "I vote (YES) for
the creation of newsgroup soc.culture.Pakistan as proposed" or "I vote
against (NO for) the creation of newsgroup soc.culture.Pakistan as
proposed". The wording doesn't have to be exact, it just needs to be
unambiguous.
In particular, statements of the form "I would vote for this group
if..." are considered COMMENTS and will NOT be counted as votes.
- Only votes that arrive DURING the voting period will be counted.
- ONLY votes E-MAILED to the vote-taker will count.
- Votes POSTED to the net for any reason (including inability to get
mail to the vote-taker) and proxy votes (such as having a mailing
list maintainer claim a vote for each member of the list) will NOT
be counted.
- At the end of the voting period, if 100 more YES/create votes are
received than NO/don't create votes AND at least 2/3 of the total
number of valid votes received are in favor of the creation, a
newgroup control message will be sent out. If the 100 vote margin
or 2/3 portion is not met, the newsgroup will not be created.
Junaid Zubairi
Vote-takerlear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) (02/27/90)
This is not a formal call for votes. Formal calls for votes are posted to news.announce.newgroups. -- Eliot Lear [lear@TURBO.BIO.NET]
brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) (02/28/90)
I see no reason why a formal call for 'votes' can't be posted to news.groups alone, without posting to the moderated group. Supposedly news.announce.newgroups reaches a wider audience, but there is no requirement that the call attempt to reach everybody. Let's not get bureaucratic here. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) (02/28/90)
Each is supposed to have his or her chance at either voting for or against the group. We (in the most collective sense, Brad) created news.announce.newgroups just for that reason. We might as well not have it if people aren't going to use it. So tell me. Which should I do: rmgroup news.announce.newgroups or disregard those who choose not to use news.announce.newgroups? -- Eliot Lear [lear@TURBO.BIO.NET]
jzubairi@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Junaid Ahmed Zubairi) (02/28/90)
For the information of all concerned, I have already posted call for votes in news.announce.newgroups. If somebody missed it , I am going to post a repeat call there. So this is a FORMAL CALL. Junaid Zubairi Vote taker