yelorose@juniper.uucp (Bob Mosley III) (09/23/88)
The following is an official proposal calling for the creation of a new
Usenet newsgroup:
Proposed Newsgroup: Rec.Arts.Cartoons
Alternate titles: Rec.Arts.Saturday.Morning.Shows
Rec.Arts.US.Cartoons
Rec.Arts.US.Animation
Rec.Arts.TV.Cartoons
Topics of discussion: This newsgroup will focus on discussions concerning
animation produced for american television, specifically that which
is shown on Saturday mornings. Other expected topics include feature
film animation, animated specials, and commercial advertisements,
Claymation, Supermarionation/Puppetooning, and Xerography, all of
which will generally be of American origin.
Should support merit it, a monthly digest file will be created to
suppliment discussions and to assist users with limited access
time.
Reasons for creation: In the opinion of many, the current animation mewsgroup,
Rec.Arts.Anime, has become too constrictive and too centered upon
animation from Japan (The "Jap Warrior Robot" shows), and that many
discussions concerning American animation are discouraged in favor
of the foreign works. While the high quality of the foreign works
are indeed accepted and recognized, the need for a separate newsgroup
dealing with "local" material has become necessary in order to
prevent friction over nationalistic issues between subscribers, and
to provide a more open and receptive forum of discussion.
Deadline for votes: The closing date for votes will be October 31, 1988, with
a 72 hour leeway period to account for net propagation. Results will
be tabulated and posted first to News.Admin, then on all related
newsgroups, and should be available by October 7th at the latest.
Depending on the result of the vote, the proper admin members will
then be requested to create a new newsgroup. Should the number of
NEGATIVE votes exceed that of positive votes, then the request will
be withdrawn.
Votes should be sent via E-Mail to the following net address:
{ames,utah-cs,rutgers} !cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!juniper!yelorose
or do a UUPATH for:
yelorose@juniper.UUCP
Votes will be counted only if received via E-Mail, or if a voter
cannot find an alternative path to this address, which does happen
from time to time.
Guidelines for Debate: ALL Discussions concerning the formation of the pro-
posed newsgroup should be relegated to the following newsgroups:
Rec.Arts.Comics
Rec.Arts.TV
Rec.Arts.Anime
Rec.Arts.Startrek
Under no circumstances should discussions on this topic take place
on News.Admin. Any poster who does so will be disqualified from
voting.
...again, the deadline for voting is October 31, 1988. Please follow the
guidelines above while voicing your opinions.
Thanks, and please be sure to vote.
OMjfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) (09/24/88)
In article <4808@juniper.uucp> yelorose@juniper.uucp (Bob Mosley III) writes: > Should the number of > NEGATIVE votes exceed that of positive votes, then the request will > be withdrawn. according to the guidlelines for creating a new newsgroup, the number of YES votes must exceed the number of NO votes by 100 or more. -- John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US) HASA, "S" Division "Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same entropy to create bugs instead?" -- Steve Elias