hans@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Hans Huttel) (11/16/89)
This is the first 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. 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 begins on November 15, 1989 and ends on December 9. During the voting period I will repeat this call for votes three times, namely on November 22, 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!
vishwana@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Chidambaram Vishwanath) (11/19/89)
It was my impression that before calling for votes for creating
rec.sport.soccer, some discussion on its necessity or otherwise should
have occured on the net. Anyway, this is my tuppence-worth of argument
as to why such a newsgroup should *not* be voted for.
1) While the soccer-related traffic seems to have increased quite a
bit in the last couple of months, there is still not enough to warrant
a separate newsgroup for soccer. (An average of hardly ten articles or
so arrive in a day, in all of rec.sport.misc, which hardly justifies
further subdivision of the contents into new newsgroups.)
2) A lot of the contributors of articles on soccer seem to come from
the nations of the Commonwealth. (This is my personal observation; if
wrong I'll stand corrected). The point is: I am sure there is interest
among them in reading articles on both soccer and that maverick, ana-
chronistic game of cricket. (I am going by my own interests and the fact
that quite a few netters posts articles on both games.) And it is so
much more convenient to read about everything of interest within one
newsgroup.
3) Lastly, why change the status-quo without having excellent reasons
for doing so? I haven't seen many complaints about the existing setup,
so far.
- Vishwanath,
Umass at Amherst.
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