From: hou1@vote.ukvoting.org.uk (Jon Ribbens) Newsgroups: uk.net.news.config,uk.net.news.announce Subject: RESULT - uk.housing (hierarchy) FAILS 16:6 Date: 2 Apr 1999 00:34:23 +0100 Message-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- RESULT OF CALL FOR VOTES Summary: uk.housing (hierarchy) and uk.housing.misc Create new hierarchy uk.housing FAILS 16:6 ==================================================================== Voting closed at 23:59:59 GMT, 27 March 1999. Proponent: cudce@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Jon Harley) Votetaker: hou1@vote.ukvoting.org.uk (Jon Ribbens) ==================================================================== Distribution: uk.net.news.announce, uk.net.news.config ==================================================================== The Results: The results follow below in the following order: 1) Result 2) Particulars of the Vote 3) Voting and Appeal guidelines 4) Rationale & Newsgroup charter PROPOSAL - Create new hierarchy uk.housing YES = 16 NO = 6 ABSTAIN = 4 YES beat NO by a majority of 10 votes, which is less than the 12 required to change the status quo. Therefore the proposal FAILS. PROPOSAL - Create new newsgroup uk.housing.misc Since the uk.housing hierarchy vote failed, the votes for the proposed newsgroup uk.housing.misc were discarded and will not be counted. ==================================================================== The Particulars of the Vote YES VOTES Andy Roberts uk_co_zetnet@andyrobts Kevin Andreoli uk_co_freeserve_andreoli@kevin Jane Andreoli com_btinternet@jane.andreoli David Hughes uk_co_clara@troubleshooter tobias erle de_snafu_kholdan@vote-uk Claire Speed uk_ac_mcc@c.speed William Boughton uk_co_demon_xencat@bill Alex Ray uk_ac_cam@ajtr2 Jonathan Burt uk_co_medinagroup@jb203 Phil Wade com_bigfoot@pooters Jon Harley uk_ac_warwick@Jon.Harley Rick Payne uk_co_rossfell@rickp Anthony R. Gold com_panix@tgold Adrian Vickers uk_co_demon_toolsbase@nospam Roy Stilling uk_co_demon_kalevala@rpjs dave day uk_co_demon_stejonda@ukvoting NO VOTES Malcolm Mladenovic org_acm@mbm Alex D. Baxter uk_co_demon_oenone@alex-news Charles Lindsey uk_ac_man_cs_clw@chl Alex Dawson uk_ac_uea@alex.dawson Darren Wyn Rees uk_co_netlink@merlin Bill Davies om_net_gto@billyboy ABSTAIN Robbie Irvine nu_arrakis@robbie SJFBeckwith com_cirra@sjfb neil p chue hong uk_ac_ed_tardis@npch Andy Mabbett uk_co_demon_pigsonthewing@andy ==================================================================== This vote was conducted by a neutral third party member of UKVoting. UKVoting is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on CFVs in the uk hierarchy. The rules under which this vote is taken are posted regularly to uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the following URL: ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/news.answers/uk/voting The UKVoting web pages can be found at http://www.ukvoting.org.uk/ There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted to uk.net.news.announce. Allegations of irregularity should be sent to control@usenet.org.uk. ==================================================================== Proposed hierarchy charter for uk.housing: uk.housing is a hierarchy for the discussion of all aspects of housing in the UK. This includes: architecture and the process of house building; interior decoration; legal aspects of house buying, selling and ownership including planning permission and conveyancing; housing associations and co-operatives; renting, letting and home ownership; all other aspects of living in housing. "Housing" here includes houses, flats, maisonnettes, bunkers (where inhabited) and any other type of home. Advertisments are specifically not allowed in any groups in this hierarchy, unless otherwise stated; use groups in the uk.adverts hierarchy. Political aspects of governmental involvement in housing should be discussed in or under uk.politics. ==================================================================== Rationale: Housing is a huge issue which affects virtually everyone. It has so many different aspects (see above) that without its own hierarchy, groups relating to housing would have to be put in a variety of other hierarchies. Creating a new hierarchy to group them together will make groups easier to locate and provide room for many future groups to be given a logical and meaningful name. ==================================================================== Proposed charter for uk.housing.misc: For the discussion of any housing-related issues for which there isn't another more appropriate group. Adverts and binaries are not allowed. One-line summary: uk.housing.misc General discussion of all types of housing in the UK. ==================================================================== Rationale: A .misc group should be created at the outset to provide a forum for general housing discussion where there is no more appropriate group. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBNwQCfWOfGXkh8vHZAQGwFQP+LDg6+FvMDkgNn2EUU/sLNUzVjzaEKv2s DQ9kEk+AqIQZfs/V+y/HnK2AeGvaMbDQZlIMqkkgjg90fBcHrs7yHlFpZ3Qhx5GG MnaxGv4SpDR2kTW1wQQ33pRGjF5xV70aKBOd7WbyJbCV6CEm5uakeDKOtOUxtIme GRNb1b5E6xM= =RQ3I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----