03 Dec 1998: uk.people.dead
From: Robert Felton <swinny@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Date: 3 Dec 1998 02:47:32 -0000
Subject: RESULTS - Creating new unmoderated newsgroup uk.people.dead
Newsgroups: uk.net.news.config,uk.net.news.announce
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RESULT OF CALL FOR VOTES
Summary: Creating new unmoderated newsgroup uk.people.dead
PROPOSAL - Create newsgroup uk.people.dead PASSES 22:9
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Voting closed at 23:59:59 GMT, 12th November 1998.
Proponent: phoenixuk@bigfoot.com (Kathleen Walker)
Votetaker: votequestion@swinny.cix.co.uk (Rob Felton)
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Distribution:
uk.net.news.announce, uk.net.news.config
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The Results:
The results follow below in the following order:
1) Result
2) Particulars of the Vote
3) Votetakers comments
4) Voting and Appeal guidelines
5) Rationale & Newsgroup charter
PROPOSAL - Create newsgroup uk.people.dead
YES = 22
NO = 9
ABSTAIN = 6
YES beat NO by a majority of 13 votes, this is more than the +12
majority required to beat the status quo.
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The Particulars of the Vote
A = Abstain PROPOSAL
Vernon Hampson vhampson##netcomuk,uk??co Y
Darren Meldrum darren##meldrum,uk??co N
john harris harris##dmu,uk??ac Y
Andy Mabbett amabbett##bham-assist.demon,uk??co A
Stephen Gower sjg##k2.stcatz.ox,uk??ac Y
Warren Ellis WarrenE##aol,,com Y
Peter Bowyer peter##unica,uk??co Y
Paul O'Rourke Paul##wight.demon,uk??co N
Richard Ashton richard##corixia.demon,uk??co Y
John Lynch jlynch##ldta.demon,uk??co Y
Alex Holden votes##alexh.claranet,uk??co A
richard letts richard-vote##illuin.demon,uk??co A
Richard Daniells richdan##pncl,uk??co Y
T Lee tfl##psp,uk??co A
Dave Mayall mayalld##postoffice,uk??co Y
Jon Harley Jon.Harley##warwick,uk??ac Y
Peter Riocreux peter.riocreux##cs.man,uk??ac Y
Tony Towers tony##fishblanket.demon,uk??co Y
SJFBeckwith sjfb##cirra,,com A
Alex Dawson alex.dawson##uea,uk??ac N
Joe Otten joe.otten##virgin,,net Y
Rachael Munns vashti##dream.org,,uk Y
Tim Emanuel temanuel##proweb,uk??co Y
Phil Hunt philh##vision25.demon,uk??co Y
Daniel Toye daniel.toye##cableol,uk??co A
Chris M. Dickson chris##dickson.demon,uk??co Y
Tobias Erle vote##kholdan.snafu,,de Y
Andrew Hunt andy##vision25.demon,uk??co Y
Bryan Kennerley bk2##northwalesonline.freeserve,uk??co Y
Andrew Smith andy##mythic,,net Y
Darren Wyn Rees merlin##netlink,uk??co N
Alan Fleming af##contract,uk??co N
Lyn David Thomas lyn##stuffing.demon,uk??co N
Mark Goodge mark##good-stuff,uk??co N
Alex D. Baxter alex##oenone.demon,uk??co N
James Coupe james##obeah.demon,uk??co N
Martin Watson martin##whitecross.demon,uk??co Y
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Votetakers Notes:
This was a simple vote but close vote.
And I must apologise for the slight delay in announcing the result due to
my time commitments within real life and the Committee Elections.
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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.
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Rationale:
There is currently an increasing interest in death on the internet. The
worldwide group alt.obituaries has a healthy traffic, fuelled by the
growing popularity of "Dead Pools".
Many UK posters participate in alt.obituaries, and dead people are often
discussed on uk.misc. The value of alt.obituaries is reduced by the
inclusion of many bit part US entertainers, who have never been heard of
outside the US, and a regular "who?" reaction from US posters whenever any
famous UK personality is discussed.
Whilst this is not a group about dead pools, it is recognised that a large
proportion of the traffic will arise as a result of those whose only
interest in a death is the points it will score them.
Charter (with changes from 1st RFD):
Changes from the 1st RFD:
Clarifications as to the purpose of the group. It isn't about dead pools,
it's about dead people. Because of dead pools there is a whole lot of
people wanting to talk about dead people, they don't want to discuss the
finer points of how to win this year's Lee Attwater.
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This group is for all discussion relating to dead people from a UK
perspective. Postings are welcomed in respect of all dead people, whether
famous or not, who had some connection with the UK.
Discussions of the mechanics and rules of the various dead pools will not
be on-topic in this group, which will be concerned with who is dead, who
isn't dead (even if their careers are), and who is likely to be dead soon.
Commercial advertising is forbidden, with the exception that the owners of
www sites relating to death may post announce type messages no more
frequently than once per month.
With the exception of PGP signatures, all encoded binaries (eg pictures,
word processor files, .zip files etc), HTML, or similar non-plaintext
postings are *forbidden*; such material should be placed on a web or FTP
server and the URL posted.
Newsgroups line
uk.people.dead UK obituaries and discussion of dead people
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Thanks
Swinny - Rob Felton
Co-Ordinator, UKVoting (mailto:ukvoting@usenet.org.uk)
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