hans@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Hans Huttel) (11/23/89)
This is the SECOND call for votes for the proposed newsgroup rec.sport.soccer dedicated to the sport Association Football, colloquially referred to as soccer and known in many countries as e.g. football, Fussball, fotboll or futbol. Unfortunately, we have had serious problems with mail at this site for some days, but things are getting better now. I have sent vote acknowledgments to all voters; however, some ack.'s have bounced. Please accept my sincerest apologies. PROPOSED CHARTER : ---------------- The newsgroup rec.sport.soccer will be a forum for discussions of, among other things - Postings of international & national soccer results - Discussions of soccer teams & players - Technical discussions of strategies, dubious referee decisions etc. The newsgroup will be global and unmoderated. HOW TO VOTE: ----------- REMEMBER : Do NOT post to the net; all votes must be mailed to me. The easiest way of voting is to hit `r' when reading this article. If you want to vote YES to rec.sport.soccer as described above, put a YES in the subject line. If you want to vote NO to rec.sport.soccer as described above, put a NO in the subject line. As usual, no `conditional' votes are counted in. Votes will be received by me personally - I can be reached on the addresses mentioned in my signature at the bottom of this posting. I will acknowledge your votes by e-mail as soon as I receive them. LENGTH OF VOTING PERIOD : ----------------------- The voting began on November 15, 1989 and ends on December 9. During the voting period I will repeat this call for votes another two times, namely on November 29 and December 6. After the end of the voting period the complete result will be posted to news.groups and news.announce.newgroups . | Hans H\"{u}ttel, Office 1603 JANET: hans@uk.ac.ed.lfcs | LFCS, Dept. of Computer Science UUCP: ..!mcvax!ukc!lfcs!hans | University of Edinburgh ARPA: hans%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nfsnet-relay.ac.uk | Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, SCOTLAND ... Ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more!