njs@uunet.uu.net (Nicholas J. Simicich) (12/11/89)
This is the second and final call for votes on the creation of the
newsgroup: rec.sport.pro-wrestling. A brief summary:
The call for discussion was issued under the name rec.arts.wrestling.
A vote was held to determine what the name of the group should be,
since there appeared to be no consensus. The vote was held using
STV, and approval of the group was not implied by a vote for the
name.
More than 1/2 the respondents to the name vote picked
rec.sport.pro-wrestling as their first choice. No one picked it as
their last choice.
The call for votes was issued for the name selected in the vote.
Unfortunately, I've since lost it. I believe that it called for
voting to end on the 21st of December. In any case, that is when
I'll end it.
The charter was for an unmoderated group to "Discuss the exhibition
sport of professional wrestling."
To vote, send mail to uunet!bywater!scifi!wrestle-yes
or uunet!bywater!scifi!wrestle-no
to vote yes or no, respectively. Internet users may be able to mail
to:
bywater!scifi!wrestle-yes@uunet.uu.net
or bywater!scifi!wrestle-no@uunet.uu.net
You may also send mail to njs@ibm.com, clearly indicating whether this
is a yes vote or a no vote. And bitnet users may mail votes to njs at
watson.
I will individually acknowledge votes, but I will not be posting
another mass ack.
According to the guidelines, votes must be clear and unqualified.
That it, they must clearly indicate a yes or no vote, and must not
contain qualifications, like "I'd prefer if the name were...", or "I'd
vote yes if the name were ...". The best way to indicate this is by
including a statement such as:
"I vote for the newsgroup as proposed."
or
"I vote against the newsgroup as proposed."
Votes mailed to wrestle-yes or wrestle-no will be assumed to be
completely unqualified votes for or against, no matter what the
subject line or text is, as allowed by the guidelines.
Finally, the rationale:
Many different sports are discussed in rec.sport.misc. However,
professional wrestling just doesn't fit in, because it is a sports
exhibition, not a "pure" sport. During the call for discussion, I
received mail from fans of other sports who are interested in sports
in general, but who would like to see us out of misc. Because of the
number of topics discussed, and the number of threads started, it is
difficult to build a kill file, and what you do build runs roughly
forever.
Occasional attempts to actually discuss amateur wrestling in
rec.sport.misc miss the intendended audience because the "real" sports
fans all have every imaginable variation of wrestling in their kill
files, and the pro-wrestling fans could care less. Thus, separating
pro-wrestling from amateur wrestling is a good idea.
Finally, in my opinion, the amount of wrestling traffic justifies a
separate newsgroup.
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Nick Simicich --- uunet!bywater!scifi!njs --- njs@ibm.com (Internet)