waldron@newport.rutgers.edu (James Waldron) (06/21/89)
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This is a LAST CALL FOR VOTES for the creation of a new
newsgroup called MISC.HEADLINES.UNITEX There are only 2 weeks
left to cast your vote for UNITEX. ALL VOTES MUST BE IN BY
11:59 PM JULY 5, 1989. PLEASE mail your votes to
patth@ccnysci.UUCP or patth@ccnysci.BITNET
and, if possible a carbon copy to
waldron@newport.rutgers.edu
Please remember to properly register your vote, you MUST MAIL
in your vote. DO NOT POST YOUR VOTE in news.groups as it
will not be registered. It must be E-MAILED to the address given above.
To create the newsgroup, in the body of the message, say 'YES, I VOTE
FOR THE CREATION OF MISC.HEADLINES.UNITEX." To vote against the newsgroup
say "No, I vote against the creation of misc.headlines.unitex"
In either case, to make the counting of votes easier, place a "YES" or
"NO" in the Subject Line of your message. We will post the voting results
on July 7, 1989
Many many thanks to those that already voted YES for our new group.
It is planned to have a moderated conference with Patt Haring
acting as our UNITEX moderator. For those that did not receive
or read our ealier postings, a brief summary and description
of UNITEX follows:
UNITEX ECHO: A SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
KEY WORDS: United Nations, Environment, Disarmament, Human Rights,
UNISPACE, World Health, Developing Nations
UNITEX distributes and disseminates current International News and
United Nations News, UN Press Releases and other UN related information
obtained from specific UN agencies and departments, such as the UN Department
of Public Information (DPI), UNICEF, World Health Organization and various
UN databases in New York, Vienna and Geneva. UNITEX also focuses on timely
news and information gathered from 'other' sources, such as, governmental
and scientific databases (NASA, Dep't of Energy, etc), various newsletters
(Nicarauga News, South Africa On-Line, as well as environmental and
ecological information vis a vis the UN Environmental Programme). We also
report on the UN Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Committee (UNISPACE),
International Treaties and Boundary Issues, International Health and
Medical Issues, Laws of the Sea and other information that effects our
universe and reality and that can help foster global understanding.
The news and information sources for much of the material that UNITEX
distributes are direct transcriptions from UN delegates as well as
senior members of the respective international embassies addressing
the General Assembly or discussions from UN Special Sessions. This serves
as a 'real' interactive news media when the user replies or responses are
made by governemnet officials, UN delegates, International political
leaders, scientists, etc, as they sometimes are done on this system or
other remote systems that are linked to this conference.
Currently, the readers of UNITEX are concerned scientists, activists,
network and teleconferencing 'types', educators, teachers, students,
government officials, UN delegates and news journalists. Although
the Conference is *not* a read only echo, we tend to get only
a few replies and inquires since the information we deliver is
of the factual variety as opposed to open-ended user discussions and
talk-oriented conferences. We do, however, encourage useful and
thoughtful comments and information relating to the articles that
are posted. Since this is an international conference and the
The UNITEX Echo has a volume of approximately 60 to 80 messages
per week. It comes in 2 waves ususally (Saturdays and widweek depending
on when we scan the UN databases and user replies, responses, etc.)
We feel the issues and topics that UNITEX addresses are interesting and
important. UNITEX recently received sanction by the Tibet-Government-In-Exile
vis a vis the Tibet Office in New York to be an 'official' press and
information source for the dissemination of news from and about TIBET.
Because UNITEX addresses Human Rights issues, this has become a lively area
lately due to the current situation in China, etc. We have also worked
closey with Amnesty International for the past 2 years in posting timely
Action Alerts that are received on our system in New York USA.
Thank you all for making the UNITEX Conference a truly international
information exchange.
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Dr. James Waldron
Director, UNITEX
waldron@newport.rutgers.edu
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Patt Haring
UseNet UNITEX Moderator
patth@ccnysci.uucp or patth@ccnysci.BITNET
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Michael Keyles
UNITEX Mailing List Administrator
1:107/520
Michael.Keyles@rubbs.uucp or rutgers!rubbs!keyles