mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> (06/02/91)
RESULTS: YES votes: 370
NO votes: 35
This satisfies the requirements for newsgroup creation. (That is, "2/3
majority in favour" and "100 more yes votes than no votes".)
Below is the charter and a list of all votes received.
PURPOSE/CHARTER: comp.human-factors
To provide a forum for discussion of general issues relating to
human-computer interaction (HCI) and human factors.
HCI is an extremely broad topic. Examples of possible subjects for
discussion include:
* Design of keyboards, mice, joysticks.
* Choice of command names and parameter syntax, and the effect on
the number of mistakes users make.
* Design of effective symbols for communicating information.
* Control relations for scroll bars, switches and so on.
* Use of Agents for representing semi-autonomous processes.
* Use of colour in user interface design.
* Methods for prototyping user interfaces.
* How to evaluate the effectiveness of a user interface.
* Designing effective dialogues for interactive programs.
* Possible new forms of feedback -- sound, smell, touch.
* Customizability vs. stability.
At present, such discussions are scattered amongst the existing comp.*
groups.
STATUS OF NEWSGROUP: unmoderated
YES votes were received from the following people:
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"Adel S. Alnaji" <alnaji@enuxha.eas.asu.edu>
"Amir Rahat - ICT (haifa" <rahat@ilw122.intel.com>
"Ana I. Anton" <anton@cc.gatech.edu>
"Andrew Gilmartin, CIS" <andrew@brownvm.brown.edu>
"Andrew M. Cohill" <COHILL@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu>
"Anita K. Wrentmore" <awrentmo@dcsc.dla.mil>
"Bryan S. So" <so@cs.wisc.edu>
"Carl J.M. Alexander" <cjeff@ghoti.lcs.mit.edu>
"Carolyn P. Banda" <banda@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
"Douglas W. Johnson" <doug@aer.com>
"Dr. Harry Delugach" <delugach@cs.uah.edu>
"e.familant" <efam@nvuxr.uucp>
"Edward P. Costello" <ec1k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
"Ellen P. Francik" <epfran1@pbhyg.pacbell.com>
"Frank C. Christofferson" <fcc@ssi.uucp>
"George V. Reilly" <gvr@cs.brown.edu>
"James W. Durkin" <jwd@cs.brown.edu>
"Joan M. Winters" <WINTERS@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu>
"John B. Melby" <melby@daffy.yk.fujitsu.co.jp>
"John M. Gendron" <jmg@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
"Josef G. Schreiner" <jgs@camis.stanford.edu>
"Krishna E. Bera" <kebera@alzabo.ocunix.on.ca>
"L. D. (Skip) Green" <lgreen@bbn.com>
"Lawrence A. Welsch" <welsch@ose.ncsl.nist.gov>
"Lee L.J. Chen" <lchen@cs.ubc.ca>
"LEE,MARK D" <gt2634a@prism.gatech.edu>
"Marian Williams - williams@ulowell.edu" <williamsm@raven.ulowell.edu>
"Michael L. Kaufman" <kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu>
"Neal P. Murphy" <ivory!murphyn@motcid.uucp>
"Pei Y. Wei" <wei@scam.berkeley.edu>
"R.J. Stroud" <R.J.Stroud@newcastle.ac.uk>
"Ralph W. Hyre" <rhyre@cinoss1.att.com>
"RICHARD POLLARD <POLLARD@UTKVX.BITNET>" <POLLARD@utkvx.utk.edu>
"Robert A. Levene" <levene@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
"Robert Chur [Sun Denver SE]" <chur@sunpeaks.central.sun.com>
"Robert T. Herbst" <herbst@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
"Roger A. Sumey" <ras@aplexus.jhuapl.edu>
"Samuel P. Uselton" <uselton@wk207.nas.nasa.gov>
"Stephen R. Smoot" <smoot@postgres.berkeley.edu>
"TEEMU J. M|TT|NEN" <TMOTTONEN@cc.helsinki.fi>
"Tyson R. Henry" <henry@cs.arizona.edu>
abowd@minster.york.ac.uk
akm@cs.uoregon.edu
Alexios Zavras <zvr@theseas.uucp>
Amy Price <aprice@potomac.ads.com>
anders@deakin.oz.au
Andrea Gallagher <andreag@juliet.caltech.edu>
Andreas Raab <ar@nvmr.radig.de>
andrew bridge <a.bridge@trl.oz.au>
Andrew Patrick <andrew@calvin.doc.ca>
Andrew Potter <andrew@entropy.ingr.ingr.com>
Andrzej Zawadzki <fil@demon.siemens.com>
Antonella Ceroni <ceroni@cs.unibo.it>
Antonin Sprinzl <sl@esisun2.tuwien.ac.at>
Arnold Robbins <arnold@audiofax.com>
Arthur Radford Ext 2779 - CSM Lecturer <as_radfo@g2.brispoly.ac.uk>
Arthur S Kamlet <ask@cblph.att.com>
Ash Nallawalla VK3CIT <ash@mlacus>
Astrid Beck <beck@farbix.uucp>
ath@linkoping.telesoft.se
Barbara Chalfonte <ephs@thumper.bellcore.com>
Bert Bos <bert@let.rug.nl>
BERTRAND IBRAHIM <IBRAHIM@uni2a.unige.ch>
Bill Cavnar <cavnar@etd4260a.erim.org>
bill killam <bkillam@ccels3.mitre.org>
bill@banana.fedex.com
Bo.Helgeson@arb.luth.se
Bob Braudes <braudes@seas.gwu.edu>
Bob Miner <bob@odi.com>
Bob Narron <bob@ipac.caltech.edu>
Bob Sutterfield <bob@morningstar.com>
Bob Weiner <rsw@cs.brown.edu>
Bob Weissman <bob@omni.com>
Brad Tombaugh <btombaug@isis.cs.du.edu>
Brandon Lovested <brandonl@gold.gvg.tek.com>
Brian Allen Levine <balg0514@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Brian Raila <br01@gte.com>
BSUTESCH@wsuiar.wsu.ukans.edu
CALDWELL@arizrvax.earn
calgary!ajfcal!phd!Phil (H Phil Duby)
Catalin Ivan <ivan@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cathy Waite <cathy@turing.ac.uk>
cbosgd!eam@att.uucp
Charles Woodson <woodson@soe.berkeley.edu>
Chip Salzenberg <chip@count.tct.com>
Chris Shaw <cdshaw@cs.ualberta.ca>
Chris Velotta
COLFELT ANDREW BRINTON W <colfelt@tramp.colorado.edu>
Colin Walls <ctw@sun.central-services.umist.ac.uk>
count0@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk
Craig E Wills <cew@wpi.wpi.edu>
Craig Timmerman <ctim@dolphin.aaet.csc.ti.com>
Cristine A Letourneau <cris@cblpe.att.com>
csh@ulysses.att.com
D.W.Wright@stl.stc.co.uk
Dan Keith <dbk@odgate.uucp>
Dan Smith <dansmith@olsen.uucp>
Dan Wallach <dwallach@soda.berkeley.edu>
Dana Uehling - Code 522 <uehling@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Daniel Jacobson <danj1@ihlpz.att.com>
Danno McKinnon <danno@eleazar.dartmouth.edu>
Daphne Dembo <daphne@synopsys.com>
Dark ELf <9029699@ul.ie>
Dave Hurst <hurst@vistatech.com>
Dave Jenner <davej@sumax.seattleu.edu>
David A Keldsen <dak@sq.com>
David Ascher <da@cs.brown.edu>
david pratt <pratt@suns2.cs.nps.navy.mil>
David Siegel <siegel@cs.columbia.edu>
David Throop <throop@cs.utexas.edu>
David Wald <wald@theory.lcs.mit.edu>
Debbie Frincke <frincke@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu>
Dennis Troup <troup@sainte-denis.ics.uci.edu>
Dick Lane <lane@selway.umt.edu>
Dick Taylor <taylor@intellistor.com>
Dirk Otterbach <pemdo@pemcom.pem-stuttgart.de>
doctor zero <doctor@info.polymtl.ca>
doi@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
Donald George Baker <cooker@rice.edu>
Doug Tucker <dhtucker@digi.lonestar.org>
Douglas Merrill <doug@clarity.princeton.edu>
Douglas W Philips <dwpst@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Dr David England <de@cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Ed Blachman x4420 <edb@fairport.hq.ileaf.com>
Edward F Oliveri <eoliveri@attmail.att.com>
Eibo Thieme <eibo@rosun1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Elana Miriam Messer <emmesser@phoenix.princeton.edu>
Eliana Baldassarri <baldassa@cs.unibo.it>
Eliel Mamousette <ELIEL@brownvm.brown.edu>
Ellen Yu <eyu@umd5.umd.edu>
Eric Golin <golin@cs.uiuc.edu>
Eric Marshall <marshall@software.org>
Erik Naggum <enag@ifi.uio.no>
erik@abblund.se
Fabio Vitali <fabio@dm.unibo.it>
Felix Finch <felix@crowfix.uucp>
Feng Chen <feng@mtnsys.wimsey.bc.ca>
fenster maier <fenster@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il>
fernando@dragonfly.wri.com
FORDJ@byuvax.earn
FOUGHT THOMAS L <tlf@sppy00.uucp>
Francois Schiettecatte <francois@hel.welch.jhu.edu>
frank@cs.uq.oz.au
Frans Heeman <heeman@serc.nl>
Fred Calm <calm@codex.uucp>
Gary Levin <garyl@tplrd.tpl.oz.au>
geoff <@uunet.uu.net:geoff@pmafire.uucp>
Geoff Fellows - SIS <gfellows@csunw.riv.csu.edu.au>
George Ng <georgen@dgp.toronto.edu>
George.Bray@syd.dit.csiro.au
German Bauer <german@cgrg.ohio-state.edu>
Glenn Paulley <gnpaulle@maytag.uwaterloo.ca>
Gordon Joly <G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Gregg Townsend <gmt@cs.arizona.edu>
gs@ukc.ac.uk
Guido van Rossum <guido@cwi.nl>
h philip chen <chenh@athena.ecs.csus.edu>
Hakon Lie <howcome@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
Harri Salminen <hks@nic.funet.fi>
Harry E Blanchard +1 908 949 3836 <arch1!heb@uunet.uucp>
Hasnain Khan <khan@jtp.cs.nyu.edu>
Heather Benwood <hbenwood@axion.bt.co.uk>
Heather Rose <Heather.Rose@eng.sun.com>
Helge Schuett <schuett@darmstadt.gmd.de>
Hu Qingmin <qingmin@viewprint.berkeley.edu>
Iain Begg <begg@mprgate.mpr.ca>
Ian Feldman <ianf@random.se>
ilham@mit.edu
Insufficient Dada <nix@valis.asd.sgi.com>
J A Brownlee <jbr0@cbnews.att.com>
Jakob Nielsen <nielsen@bellcore.com>
James Goodlet <jamesg@cogs.sussex.ac.uk>
James.A.Landay@gs45.sp.cs.cmu.edu
James.W.Matthews@mac.dartmouth.edu
Jamie Blustein <jamie@gaul.csd.uwo.ca>
Jan Dj{rv <jand@kuling.docs.uu.se>
Jan Willamowius <jan@janhh.hanse.de>
Jane Philcox <jane@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
Janelle Kozak <jjkozak@cs.umn.edu>
Jari Juhani Kleimola <s30742a@kaira.hut.fi>
Jaroslav Liptak <se_lipta@rcvie.uucp>
Jay Chanowitz <jachano@pbhyg.pacbell.com>
jcm@pws.bull.com
Jean-Philippe Richard <jp@cassis.cnet-pab.fr>
Jean-Pierre BRAQUELAIRE <achille@geocub.greco-prog.fr>
Jeff Hexter <jhex_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
Jeffrey Porten <porten@eniac.seas.upenn.edu>
JIM PICKERING <jrp@rducky.uucp>
JIM_DENTON.ES_AE@xerox.com
Jiro Nakamura <jiro@shaman.com>
Joaquim Jorge <jorgej@cs.rpi.edu>
Joe Hanus/Microbial Germplasm Database <hanusj@cgrb.orst.edu>
Joe Hughes <atesysv!jwh@uunet.uucp>
Joe Zitt <joe@zitt.uucp>
John Brimacombe <john@mantis.co.uk>
John Christian <christia@software.org>
John Morgan Morris <matjmm@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
John.Spragge@queensu.ca
johndan johnson-eilola <JEILOLA@mtus5.cts.mtu.edu>
johnson@minster.york.ac.uk
Jonathan Egre <jonathan@mantis.co.uk>
Jonathan Franco <franco@iro.umontreal.ca>
Joseph Feitler <feitler@i88.isc.com>
Joseph Zachary Provo <crimson@wpi.wpi.edu>
J|rgen Jensen <jensen@diku.dk>
Kai Shing O'Yang <oyang@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au>
Karen Ward <wardk@cse.ogi.edu>
Kathleen Lerch <kal@ccird7.cci.com>
kathy@cs.sfu.ca
Kearton Rees <krees@axion.bt.co.uk>
Kei Ishii <kis@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Keith Instone <instone@andy.bgsu.edu>
Kelly Deyoe <deyoe@chmsr.gatech.edu>
Kent Paul Dolan <xanthian@zorch.sf-bay.org>
Kevin Denelsbeck <denelsbe@cs.unc.edu>
Kevin McCarty <kmc@netcom.com>
Kim DeVaughn <ked01@juts.ccc.amdahl.com>
Kornel Szabo <szabo@ifi.unizh.ch>
Lar Kaufman <lark@greylock.tivoli.com>
Larry Rowe <larry@postgres.berkeley.edu>
Lars-Gunnar Olsson <larsg@pinus.slu.se>
larsoe@emil.csd.uu.se
Lee Crocker <lee@mport.com>
Leila Burrell-Davis <leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Leonard Cuff <lcuff@cmc.com>
Leonard Vaughn <lvaughn@sgihbtn.uucp>
LHETTINGER@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil
Liam Quin <lee@sq.com>
lindsay macdonald <lm@crosfield.co.uk>
Living Steele <chang@salamandria.uucp>
Liz Sonenberg <eas@munmurra.cs.mu.oz.au>
Lon Barfield <lon@cwi.nl>
Lonnie Smith <smithh@atc.boeing.com>
loreto@sarin.it
lukose@deakin.oz.au
Lyle Seaman <lws@sununix.comm.wang.com>
Lynda Hardman <lynda@cwi.nl>
mackeown@acrc.bristol.ac.uk
Manfred Jebram <mjebram@einoed.in-berlin.de>
Marcus Gustafsson/TOTY <mgustaf@toty.uucp>
margot@spex.nl
MARJAN@otago.ac.nz
Mark Brader <msb@sq.com>
Mark Johns <markj@amc.com>
Mark Lanzo <atesysv!lanzo@uunet.uucp>
Mark Notessmhn <mhn@hpfcmhn>
Mark Sicignano <mark@hsi86.hsi.com>
marken@aerospace.aero.org
Mary Margaret Schuck <schuck@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca>
Matt McGranaghan <matt@thrush.umesve.maine.edu>
Matthew Freedman <mattf@cac.washington.edu>
mayoka@csgrad.cs.vt.edu
md wilson <m1wilson@medusa.ua.oz.au>
Michael Fuller <msf@wren.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Michael Muller <michael@ctt.bellcore.com>
Michael Sneeringer <la097393@zach.fit.edu>
Michael Van Riper <michael_van_riper@gateway.qm.apple.com>
Michael VanHilst <vanhilst@cs.washington.edu>
Michael.Gleicher@oreo.graphics.cs.cmu.edu
Michele Evard <mevard@cs.uoregon.edu>
Michele Morris <M.E.Morris@stl.stc.co.uk>
Mike Vidlak <auvvidl@auvsun1.tamu.edu>
MikeSummers@cup.portal.com
Mott Given <ntm1169@dsac.dla.mil>
Nadia Pitacco (Morgaine) <modus!simm!polluce!morgaine@rutgers.edu>
nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk
neeri@iis.ethz.ch
New Wave Dave <DAMATT01@ulkyvx.earn>
Nicholas Tarnoff <tarnoff@cme.nist.gov>
Nick Pilch <nicky@apple.com>
ogden@nmsu.edu
Paivi Helena Hyvarinen <Paivi.Hyvarinen@hut.fi>
Pat McGee <jpm@spectrum.lanl.gov>
Patricia O Tuama <rissa@gargoyle.uchicago.edu>
Paul Bandler <paulb@mlacus>
Paul Mullins <mullins@cs.pitt.edu>
Paul Teich <pteich@cayman.amd.com>
Paul-Andre Panon <panon@ucs.ubc.ca>
paulA@minster.york.ac.uk
Peggy Shepard <shepard@retina.mitre.org>
Peter Barnes <pdb@cs.uq.oz.au>
Peter Santangeli <psantangeli@alias.com>
Peter Wayner <wayner@cs.cornell.edu>
peterr@syacus.acus.oz.au
Phil Weiss <weiss872@snake.cs.uidaho.edu>
Philip Craig <philipc@runx.oz.au>
Philip Reese <preese@skat.usc.edu>
Pierre Gauvin <pgauvin@ncs.dnd.ca>
pshuang@athena.mit.edu
Rama Krishna <ramki@shakti.ernet.in>
Ray Smith <rcsmith@anagld.analytics.com>
Renato Iannella <ren@kowande.sics.bu.oz.au>
Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu>
Rich Schlegelmilch <richs@dickens.lerc.nasa.gov>
Richard Bartels <rhbartel@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca>
Richard Hintz <OPSRJH@uccvma.ucop.edu>
Richard Johnson <johnsonr@horton.colorado.edu>
richard@syacus.acus.oz.au
Rick Ebert <rick@ipac.caltech.edu>
Rick Innis <rick@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
Rita Altamore <altamore@milton.u.washington.edu>
Rob Procter <rnp@lfcs.ed.ac.uk>
Robert Lee <rlee@nanko.digital.co.jp>
Robin Fairbairns on LSL cluster <robin@lsl.co.uk>
Rod Rebello -- CAD Development <rrebello@titan.uucp>
Ron Westfall <westfal@mprgate.mpr.ca>
rothstei@mcs.kent.edu
Roy Chester <roy@mlacus>
Ruth Thomas <rct@eng.cam.ac.uk>
rv01 <@gte.com:rv01@harvey>
s8922128@mackay.mqcs.mq.oz.au
SALewis@lbl.gov
Sandy Ressler <ressler@cme.nist.gov>
Sandy Wise <sandy@snoopy.cs.umass.edu>
Scot Kamins <kamins@kumr.lns.com>
Scott Overmyer <overmyer@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Scott Raney <raney@yertle.colorado.edu>
Scott Schneider <sas@sgihbtn.uucp>
scottn@attunix.uucp
sdd@cs.aber.ac.uk
Sean Philip Engelson <engelson-sean@cs.yale.edu>
Selmer Moen <moen@plains.nodak.edu>
sfleming@cs.hw.ac.uk
shah <@uunet.uu.net:shah@sunfs>
SHAHRSHAHR <SHAHR@dev3c>
Sharon Hopkins <sharon@devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
Siegurd Weber <saw@telecdn.uucp>
SILL D E <de5@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
Simon Harriss <simonh@stan.xx.swin.oz.au>
sjb@hound.uucp
Skip Osborne <osborne@software.org>
song@minster.york.ac.uk
spf@cbnewsl.att.com
SSWIERENGA@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil
Stefan Merten <merten@informatik.uni-kl.de>
Stephan Richter <richter@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Stephen R Acker <sacker@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
STEPHEN TICE <B645ZAW@utarlg.uta.edu>
Steve Loughran <slo@hpl.hp.co.uk>
Steve Luis <luiss@fiu.edu>
Steve Nazimiec <nazimiec@bigmax.uucp>
Steve Watt <steve@wattres.uucp>
Steven Teal <st0i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subodh Bapat <bapat@rm1.uucp>
Susan Cohen <susan@beppe.ericsson.se>
susan e mcdaniel <mcdanies@debussy.cs.colostate.edu>
Taehan Weon <weon@dino.media.co.kr>
Ted Sarbin <ted@cs.unr.edu>
Ted Stockwell <ted@aps1.spa.umn.edu>
teresafe@microsoft.uucp
Terry Raymond <raymond!terry@galaxia.newport.ri.us>
Thom Gillespie <thom@garnet.berkeley.edu>
Thor Henning Hjorth <FAFOR@nobergen.earn>
Thorsten Fox <fox@gmdzi.uucp>
Tim Love <tpl@eng.cam.ac.uk>
Tim Prinzing <tim@or.mobdig.com>
Todd.Kaufmann@paris.mt.cs.cmu.edu
Tom Sarver <tsarver@andersen.uucp>
Tom Smith <toms@utoday.com>
Tomasz Muldner <solid@aucs.acadiau.ca>
Tony Lezard <tony@mantis.co.uk>
Ulf Sundin <ulf@gbg.infolog.se>
Valerie Florance <vf@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu>
vancleef@iastate.edu
vicki halliwell <vicki@kelso.rsmas.miami.edu>
Walter Maner <maner@andy.bgsu.edu>
warack@zip.eecs.umich.edu
Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
WHP_vHulzen@pttrnl.nl
wiseb@cs.rpi.edu
NO votes were received from the following people:
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"Dave V. Schaller" <schaller@hsi86.hsi.com>
"Richard H. Miller" <rick@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu>
"Robert S. Wood" <rob@genrad.com>
Alex Kirlik <kirlik@chmsr.gatech.edu>
Arne Henrik Juul <arnej@lise.unit.no>
Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
Bob Kass <kass@cmi.com>
Brian Matthews <blm@6sceng.uucp>
Carl Rigney <cdr@amd.com>
Clark Quinn <quinn@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
David Robinson <david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Gary Perlman <perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu>
goehring@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
Harald Nordg}rd-Hansen <hhansen@siri.unit.no>
Jack@mcsun.uucp, Schryver@mcsun.eu.net
Kjetil Wiekhorst J|rgensen <jorgens@lise.unit.no>
kr@inf.rl.ac.uk
Leonard Peirce <peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Neil Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
Norman Yarvin <yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu>
Phil Spelt <sfp@mars.epm.ornl.gov>
punisher@daimi.aau.dk
riander@pacbell.uucp
Robert Craig Harman <rcharman@phoenix.princeton.edu>
Robin Lampert <lampert@csmil.umich.edu>
Roger Lighty <ral@hydra.jpl.nasa.gov>
Shan Soeng (CS) <soeng@sunrise.ec.usf.edu>
Shari Feldman <shari@cc.gatech.edu>
Special Agent Dale Cooper <shiau@eniac.seas.upenn.edu>
Steve Hirtle <hirtle@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Steve Lusk <FSLDEX@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil>
Steven Furr <furr@mdavcr.uucp>
Stewart Evans <stewarte@scol.uucp>
Tim Ramsey <tar@math.ksu.edu>
TS_Taylor@um.cc.umich.edu
Multiple identical votes were received from the following people:
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Paul Bandler <paulb@mlacus>
Lon Barfield <lon@cwi.nl>
Bill Cavnar <cavnar@etd4260a.erim.org>
johndan johnson-eilola <JEILOLA@mtus5.cts.mtu.edu>
Nadia Pitacco <modus!simm!polluce!root@rutgers.edu>
/ Nadia Pitacco (Morgaine) <modus!simm!polluce!morgaine@rutgers.edu>
david pratt <pratt@suns2.cs.nps.navy.mil>
"Dave V. Schaller" <schaller@hsi86.hsi.com>
Paul Teich <pteich@cayman.amd.com>
These multiple identical votes were counted as single votes (see YES and NO
lists above)
Both YES and NO votes were received from:
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Stephen Viller <viller@sa.co.umist.ac.uk>
Both were ignored. Don't worry, Stephen, we all have off days. :-)
Anonymous votes were received from:
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System <root@ttsi.lonestar.org>
This vote was ignored. (I looked for votes from root, usenet, system,
postmaster, sysop and guest.)
Comments:
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Vote-counting used awk to look for lines containing both "vote" and "yes" or
both "vote" and "no". A log of matched lines was kept and checked manually
for non-obvious phrasings such as "If you think I'm going to vote YES for
your newsgroup, you're mad". There weren't any :-) Naturally the script was
careful to report only one vote per message received, and votes not parsed by
awk were checked manually.
Next I tried to remove duplicates and anonymous votes. If anyone spots large
numbers of duplicates which I missed, please let me know. Votes from Tony,
John and Jonathan at this site were, of course, uncoerced; and JC and I
decided not to vote.
The voting was pretty overwhelming, so I think it's safe to say that the
newsgroup passed. See you there!
mathew