welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty) (02/02/90)
[Please send votes to welty@lewis.crd.ge.com, and NOT to the moderator of news.announce.newgroups.-eliot] Call for votes: Soc.History this is a call for votes for the creation of the unmoderated newsgroup, soc.history. the voting period will be 21 days, commencing with the appearance of this article in news.announce.newusers and the other groups to which it is crossposted. Votes should be emailed to welty@lewis.crd.ge.com -or- ..!uunet!crdgw1!lewis.crd.ge.com!welty votes should be clear, concise, and unambiguous. votes should be emailed; posted votes shall NOT be counted. votes hinged on conditions shall not be counted (but they will be reported on in the final summary.) votes should only be on the name soc.history; votes mentioning another name shall not be counted, but they will be reported on in the final summary. votes will be acknowledged via email. emailed acknowledgements which fail will be listed (address only, not the vote itself) in subsequent postings during the voting period. Notes: the informal poll i ran on soc.history vs. misc.history was inconclusive, depending on how i counted one somewhat ambiguous vote which listed a number of names in order of preference, rather than a single choice. in any case, no clear direction was given by the overall results of the poll. interestingly enough, there was an odd dichotomy in the reasons why some wanted misc.history instead of soc.history; one prefered misc.* placement because he considers soc.* to be a grouping of social clubs, and a history group to be too serious for such a place. another considers soc.* to be too serious a place for an unmoderated history group, and prefers either talk.* or misc.*. one prefered misc.* placement simply because his site doesn't get soc.* groups; however, it is generally agreed that distribution is a bad reason to select a name. it would seem that it will be impossible to please everyone here, so i'm going with my initial feelings and soc.history as the proposed name. vote early, vote often! richard -- richard welty 518-387-6346, GE R&D, K1-5C39, Niskayuna, New York welty@lewis.crd.ge.com ...!crdgw1!lewis.crd.ge.com!welty ``gee, you can hardly tell where the cat slept on the cake''