bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bryce Nesbitt) (11/30/89)
Enclosed are the results of the "rec.aquarium" vote. My intent was to provide aquarium lovers an alternative to the controversial "sci.aquaria" name. This goal failed. The charter for the proposed rec.aquarium was identical to the old alt.aquaria charter: OLD: alt.aquaria The aquarium & related as a hobby. NEW: rec.aquarium The aquarium & related as a hobby. The sci.aquaria vote turned into a complete farce. Theoretically the two calls for votes should have garnered similar total counts. However, I did not hype the rec.aquarium vote. There were no massive cross-posting, no giant block votes, no rash of forged postings, and no fantastic jokes in rec.humor. Nobody even posted to alt.sex with the message "To keep alt.sex, send a "YES on sci.aquaria" vote to...". The sci.aquaria vote passed by (about) 40 votes; 38 of which came from Richard Sexton's home site. I did not campaign at my own site. A principal poster on the sci.aquaria issue even offered to provide me with a set of forged YES votes with legal dates and user names! What crock! ---------------------For the net.historians----------------------------------- (-: Oh, no!, "net.historians is namespace abuse!" :-) This vote was remarkably will disciplined. Virtually all voters complied with the requirement of a "real name". Most other vote counts contain lots of votes with just an address like "somewhere!nowhere!podunk!jsfs". Few YES voters said more than, "thanks", or "I agree". About half the NO voters left comments. Half of those were to the effect of "I'm voting NO because of [real or perceived] violations of net rules". Just 5 wanted alternate names (rec.aquariums was first, rec.pets.aquarium second, rec.aquaria third). One YES came from the bogus sci.misc posting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 106 YES votes ============= ----- -----, wyle@inf.ethz.ch ----- Wine, wine@cs.ucla.edu A.E.Mossberg, aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu Alan Char, uunet!xilinx!atari!achar Albert Smith, bowler@athena.mit.edu Andy Pitts, uunet!cs.utexas.edu!gatech.edu!rbdc!andy Ashwin Ram, ashwin%pravda@gatech.edu Bernd Sluka, uunet!stoch.fmi.uni-passau.de!sluka Bill Haake, haake@cvs.rochester.edu Bill Schell, allegra!bill Bill Sommerfeld, sommerfeld@apollo.com Bill Thacker, wbt@cbnews.att.com Bruce Cohen, bic@cgl.ucsf.edu Bryce Nesbitt, bryce@commodore.COM Bryon Johnson, uunet!telly.on.ca!bryon Charles A. Anderson, caa@garnet.ssd.cdc.com Charles Balan, unccab@med.unc.edu Christopher Hassell, hassell@tramp.colorado.edu Christopher K Davis, ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu Craig Jackson drilex1, ll-xn!dricejb@drilex.DRI.MGH.COM Craig Williamson, craig%ncrcae@ncrlnk.dayton.ncr.com D. W. James, vnend@phoenix.princeton.edu Dale C. Cook, cook@pinocchio.encore.com Dan Corrin, dan@engrg.uwo.ca Dan Nydick, dan@faraday.ece.cmu.edu Dan O'Neill, uunet!asihub!dan Dave Cline, uunet!m1!dave Dave Mack, uunet!alembic.ACS.COM!csu Dave Sill, dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil David H. Brierley, uunet!Galaxia.Newport.RI.US!dave David Messer, uunet!viper.Lynx.MN.Org!dave David Shaffer, pyuxf!daves@bellcore.bellcore.com David Wright, dww@stl.stc.co.uk Dean Pentcheff, dean@nsr.bioeng.washington.edu Don May, uunet!convex!may Doug Bailey, bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!bmers58!dbailey@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu Eric P. Scott, eps@toaster.sfsu.edu Ethan Miller, elm@chilli.berkeley.edu Evan Leibovitch, uunet!telly.on.ca!evan Frank, rsoft!frank@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca Fred Rump from home, icdi10!fr@cdin-1.uu.net Gary Ansok, ansok@stsci.edu George Booth, booth@hpmtlgb.hp.com Gilbert W. Pilz, gil@banyan.banyan.com Glenn R. Stone, gs26%prism@gatech.edu Greg Ostravich, uunet!ssbell!grego Hilarie Nickerson, uunet!ginosko!ames.arc.nasa.gov!zodiac!hil J G Miller, miller@ria.ccs.uwo.ca J. Christian A. Peper, peper1@unix.cis.pitt.edu J.A. Fagan, lopez!preacher@sharkey.cc.umich.edu James Drew, uunet!cs.uoregon.edu!jdrew James Jones, uunet!mcrware!jejones James Sterbenz, uunet!wugate!wucs1!jps Jay Maynard, uunet!splut.conmicro.com!jay Jeff Daniel, uunet!ficc!jeffd Jeff Jones, uunet!gistdev.UUCP:jcj!gistdev! Joe Collins, joec@morgan.com Karl F. Fox, uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zip!karl Kathryn Fielding, uunet!zardoz!ohio!kathryn Ken A Irwin, kai@ihlpa.att.com Kim E. DeVaughn, uunet!uts.amdahl.com!kim Lynn G. Salmon, salmon@tybalt.caltech.edu Maarten Litmaath, maart@cs.vu.nl Marc Quattromani, quattro@convex.com Mark Moraes, moraes@csri.toronto.edu Mark-Jason Dominus, entropy@pawl.rpi.edu Matt Austern, austern@lbl.gov Matthias Urlich, urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de Mike McCurdy, mccurdy%ucselx@sdsu.edu Paul F. Dietz, dietz@cs.rochester.edu Paul Graham, pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu Paul Ryan, pgr@debussy.csg.uiuc.edu Peter Da Silva, ficc!peter@uunet Piet van Oostrum, piet@cs.ruu.nl Ralph Clark, clark@ttidca.TTI.COM Randell Jesup, jesup@commodore.COM Ray Dunn, uunet!philmtl.philips.ca!ray Richard Brosseau, dciem!cognos!richardb Richard Champeaux, rchampe@hubcap.clemson.edu Richard J Otter, apple!well!ricko Richard White, rw@aipna.edinburgh.ac.uk Rick Gillespie, rwg@solbourne.com Ronald J. Dean, uunet!pdn.paradyne.com!rjd Rose Marie Daniels, bdrc!rmd@mcnc.mcnc.org Rune Nerg}rd, uunet!ifi.uio.no!runene Rusty Carruth, uunet!cadnetix.COM!rusty Samuel Katz, sammy@arrakis.psi.siemens.COM Sandra Jessica Smyth, toto@tank.uchicago.edu Scott Goehring, gt4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Scott Paisley, paisley@cme.nist.gov Shadow, ez000691@vega.ucdavis.edu Stephen Dampier, uunet!piddle!stephen Steve Rader, rader@cs.wisc.edu Stuart Warmink, sw@groucho.att.com Susan Scheide -CFI-, susans@cfisun.cfi.com Suzy Marie Mercer, suzy@tank.uchicago.edu Ted Conwell, conwell@rd1632.dayton.ncr.com Tidak Apa, ficc!birwin@uunet Tom Blakely, tfb@corvair Tom Jaskiewicz, uunet!garp.MIT.EDU!mit-eddie!Alliant.COM!tj Tom Ming-Feng Chang, mfc@ravel.csg.uiuc.edu Wayne Messard, mesard@wilma.bbn.com William David Haas, dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu William Maceown, mackeown@compsci.bristol.ac.uk news aka randy, uunet!m2xenix!news 79 NO Votes ============== ---------------, emv@math.lsa.umich.edu Alex Jenkins, atj@prism.tmc.com Alexander Haley, ahaley@jarthur.claremont.edu Andrew Boardman, amb@cs.columbia.edu Anton Rang, rang@cs.wisc.edu Arthur David Olson, elsie!ado@nih-csl.dcrt.nih.gov Bengt Larsson, bengtl@maths.lth.se Brad Roberts, brad@pedev.Columbia.NCR.COM Brian Ehrmantraut, bae@auspex.com uunet!auspex!bae Brian G. Gordon, briang@Corp.Sun.COM Carl Paukstis, carlp@ISC-BR.COM uunet!iscuva.iscs.com!iscuva!frigg!carlp Carl S. Gutekunst, csg@pyramid.com Carlo Sgro, electro!carlo@watcgl.waterloo.edu Carlton B. Hommel, carlton@apollo.hp.com Chip Salzenberg, chip@ateng.com Chris Koenigsberg, ckk@andrew.cmu.edu Chris Lewis, uunet!attcan!lsuc!eci386!clewis Craig E. Ward, cew@venera.isi.edu Dan Hoey, hoey@etl.army.mil Dan Lance, drl@corpane.com uunet!ukma!corpane.uucp!drl Dave O'Brien, daveo@mipon3.intel.com David Bedno, davidbe@sco.COM David S. Browning, browning@math.ucla.edu David S. Comay, dsc@seismo.css.gov Dean Hougen, hougen@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu Dennis Franciskovich, franciskovich-dennis@cs.yale.edu Ed Hall, edhall%ives@rand.org Gary Sutcliffe, astroatc!nicmad!grc!gary@uwvax.cs.wisc.edu Howard Steel, Howard.Steel@Waterloo.NCR.COM J. Deters, jad@dayton.DHDSC.MN.ORG James Kowalczyk, James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com Jim Pickering, pyramid!polyslo!rducky!jrp Jim Winer, jwi@lzfme.ATT.COM Joe Buck, jbuck@janus.berkeley.edu Joel Gringorten, gringort@wsl.dec.com John B. Berryhill, berryh@huey.udel.edu John Bridge, BRIDGE%rcgl1@eng.eng.ohio-state.edu John F. Haugh II, rpp386!jfh@cs.utexas.edu jfh@rpp386.cactus.org John Woods, uunet!cs.utexas.edu!frog!john Ken Arromdee, arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu Ken Ledbetter, ledbette@watserv1.waterloo.edu Ken Ronny, Schouten kenrsc%hpserv2@sfd.uit.no Len Tower, tower@bu-it.bu.edu Malcolm Mladenovic, mbm@dsbc.icl.stc.co.uk Mark H. Weber, markw@GVL.Unisys.COM Mark Nettleingham, uunet!hunny.att.com!ll1a!markn Mark-Jason Dominus, entropy@pawl.rpi.EDU Mathew, smm12@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk Michael A. Sanderson, sanders@cs.ubc.ca uunet!ubc-cs!sanders Mike Richman, richman@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Miriam Nadel, mhnadel@gryphon.COM Mitchell K. Collinsworth,mitch@squid.graphics.cornell.edu Neil Readwin, nreadwin@uk.co.mic.lon uunet!mcvax!ukc!miclon!nreadwin Nelson Broat, NMBCU@cunyvm.cuny.edu Oleg Kiselev, oleg@gryphon.COM Oliver Laumann, net@TUB.BITNET uunet!relay.EU.net!tub!net Patricia O Tuama, rissa@gargoyle.uchicago.edu Patrick T. Garvin, ptgarvin@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu Pichard Welty, welty@lewis.crd.ge.com Ray Baxter, ray@hudson.stanford.edu Rich Kulawiec, rsk@boulder.colorado.edu Richard Fritzson, fritzson@prc.unisys.com Richard H. Miller, rick@pavlov.bcm.tmc.edu Richard Sexton, richard@gryphon.com Rob Sartin, sartin@hplabs.hp.com Robert Douglas, rdouglas@hpda.HP.COM Rock Kent, uunet!rancho!rock Ron Heiby, heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com S. Alexander Ridgway, alexr@tybalt.caltech.edu Scott Davis, scott%mccall@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu Steve Hanks, hanks@june.cs.washington.edu Steven A Carrow, uunet!nrl-css!carrow Steven L. Baur, baur@venice.sedd.trw.com Terry J. Wood, tjw%vms.cis.pitt.edu@unix.cis.pitt.edu Travis Lee Winfrey, travis@douglass.cs.columbia.edu Valerie Drake, vdra_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Walter Garcia-Fontes, walt@portia.stanford.edu Werner Uhrig, werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu William Lohmann, willil@pdx.MENTOR.COM