24 Oct 1999: uk.local.lothians charter change
From: "Chris M. Dickson" <lothiansvote@dickson.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 16:00:21 GMT
Subject: RESULT: Change to charter of uk.local.lothians PASSES 18:2
Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.local.lothians
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RESULT OF CALL FOR VOTES
Summary: charter change of uk.local.lothians
PROPOSAL - charter change PASSES 18:2
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Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST, 13th October 1999.
Proponent: Richard Fairbairn <richard@fairbairn.com>
Votetaker: Chris M. Dickson <c.dickson@ukvoting.org.uk>
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DISTRIBUTION:
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uk.net.news.announce, uk.net.news.config, uk.local.lothians
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THE RESULTS:
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The results follow below in the following order:
1) Results
2) Particulars of the vote
3) Votetaker's comments
4) Rationale & proposed charter change
5) Changed charter
6) Voting and appeal guidelines
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RESULTS:
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PROPOSAL - change charter of uk.local.lothians
YES : 18 votes
NO : 2 votes
ABSTAIN : 2 votes
Total : 22 votes
YES beat NO by a majority of 16 votes. For charter change passage, there
must be 12 more YES votes than NO votes. Accordingly, the charter is
changed.
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FINAL VOTE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
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Voted Yes - 18 votes
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Stewart.Smith.ee.ed@ac.uk Stewart Smith
richard.fairbairn.com@ Richard Fairbairn
Bill.billybubbles.demon@co.uk Bill
vote-uk.kholdan.snafu@de tobias erle
david.mayall.ukonline.co@uk Dave Mayall
tfl.psp.co@uk Thomas Lee
bedfordtlfan.yahoo.com@ Denis F
jezza.hotwells.freeserve@co.uk Jezza
steve.wrightnet.demon@co.uk Steve Wright
philip.blencathra.demon@co.uk Philip Powell
mrt102.york.ac@uk Mark Tyndall
ichard.cadence.com@ Ian Chard
fulleraaron.ukonline.co@uk Aaron Fuller
d.hillam.btinternet.com@ Dave Hillam
tim.barrow.iname.com@ Tim Barrow
peter.wppltd.demon@co.uk Peter Parry
james.sfgiants22.freeserve@co.uk James Farrar
alex.alexh.clara@co.uk Alex Holden
Voted No - 2 votes
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craig.scot.demon@co.uk Craig Cockburn
Eugene.Mann.ukgateway.net@ Eugene
Abstained - 2 votes
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tc.mcs.net@ Thomas Cuny
P.J.Leake.durham.ac@uk Paul Leake
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VOTETAKER'S REMARKS:
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The forged cancellation of the first RFD was a clearly exceptional
circumstance and caused some procedural headaches, but I believe the
correct course of action was taken. I shall not enter into any
correspondence regarding what the result would have been had that
decision not been taken - or any other ifs, buts or maybes.
Many thanks to all the voters for remembering to put their names and
addresses on their papers. It is truly appreciated.
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RATIONALE:
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There has been an ever increasing problem with commercial
advertising in uk.local.lothians. This proposed charter change is
designed to attempt to eradicate the problem.
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PROPOSED CHARTER CHANGE:
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EXISTING CHARTER:
"Uk.local.lothians is for the discussion of any topic relating to the
Lothians. This area currently takes in the Unitary Authority areas of
East Lothian, City of Edinburgh, Midlothian and West Lothian.
Due to the diverse community in the Lothians, uk.local.lothians
welcomes posts in any language, but considers English the main
language. Posters in other languages are encouraged to give
translations in English where possible.
Commercial advertising is un-welcome, although a company reference in
a signature not exceeding four lines is acceptable.
Messages posted to this newsgroup must not be cross-posted to more than
a TOTAL of four uk.local.* newsgroups; these may be geographically
adjacent or overlapping, or connected by the subject of the post (e.g.
"moving house from Glasgow to Edinburgh").
With the exception of PGP signatures, the posting of binaries or
other encoded data files is not permitted."
PROPOSAL:
That the third paragraph of the above Charter be replaced by
the following:
"Commercial advertising is expressly forbidden. Any Commercial
references in a signature file must not exceed 4 lines and must not be
the purpose of the post."
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MODIFIED CHARTER:
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For your newsgroups file:
uk.local.lothians discussions about the Lothians, Scotland
Charter for unmoderated group uk.local.lothians
Uk.local.lothians is for the discussion of any topic relating to the
Lothians. This area currently takes in the Unitary Authority areas of
East Lothian, City of Edinburgh, Midlothian and West Lothian.
Due to the diverse community in the Lothians, uk.local.lothians welcomes
posts in any language, but considers English the main language. Posters
in other languages are encourged to give translations in English where
possible.
Commercial advertising is expressly forbidden. Any Commercial
references in a signature file must not exceed 4 lines and must not be
the purpose of the post.
With the exception of PGP signatures, the posting of binaries or other
encoded data files is not permitted.
Proponent:
Richard Fairbairn <richard@fairbairn1.demon.co.uk>
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