14 May 1998: uk.tech.y2k
RESULT: Creation of uk.tech.y2k PASSES
Author: SJFBeckwith
Email: sjfb@steves.org.uk
Date: 1998/05/14
Forums: uk.net.news.config, uk.net.news.announce, uk.comp.misc, uk.tech.misc
Message-ID: <result-uk.tech.y2k-980514-201858@usenet.org.uk>
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RESULT: Creation of uk.tech.y2k PASSES
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Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST, 10th May 1998.
Proponent: tone@antb.demon.co.uk (Tone)
Votetaker: sjfb@steves.org.uk (SJFBeckwith)
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Distribution:
uk.net.news.announce, uk.net.news.config, uk.comp.misc, uk.tech.misc
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The Results:
Create the group as uk.tech.y2k = 79
Create the group as uk.tech.year-2000 = 51
Status Quo (No Group) = 7
As the y2k option passes the +12 against the Status Quo and had over
half the valid votes it wins. The group uk.tech.y2k should be created
as detailed in the charter below.
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Rationale:
The newsgroup c.s.y2k is now dominated by U.S. politics, salaries, and
survivalism; and is therefore insufficiently useful to the U.K.
technical community. There should be a new newsgroup for UK-related
posters to discuss relevant technical Y2k matters. The introduction of
the Euro affects Y2k programming and introduces related problems.
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The Charter:
Group for the UK-centric discussion of all aspects and possible
solutions of the Year 2000 problem, especially in relation to Computers
and all electronic/electrical equipment utilising date related ic's.
The group will permit discussion of the euro/EMU where it
affects/interfaces with Y2K work as well as also handling discussion on
programming for the introduction of the Eurocurrency.
No advertising allowed, Off topic subjects to include job announcements
Binary postings are expressly forbidden. All postings to be in plain
text. Other material - such as word processor or HTML formats,
binaries, executable and/or zipped files, etc. - may be cited and placed
on Web or FTP sites.
The newsgroup will not be moderated, however, off topic postings
including unwelcome ads, will be warned off/reported to their
postmaster/ISP.
Newsgroup Line:
uk.tech.y2k Discussion forum for UK oriented y2k problems
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The Particulars of the Vote
valid votes
name email address a b c
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gary myers 101355@3556.compuservecom 1 2 3
alex d. baxter a@baxter.ic@acuk 2 1 3
alex ray alex@ray.cai@cam@acuk 2 1 -
alex holden alexh.claranet 1 2 -
andy mabbett amabbett.bham-assist@demon@couk 3 1 2
andrew toner andrew.bartonis@couk 1 2 -
arwel parry arwel.cartref@demon@couk 1 2 3
adrian wontroba aw1.stade@couk 1 2 -
barry smith bazzas.btinternetcom 1 2 -
ben tansley ben.bentan@demon@couk 1 2 3
geoff berrow black-dog.geocitiescom 1 2 3
mark brown broonie.tardis@ed@acuk 2 1 3
cameron dunn c@r@dunn.bath@acuk 2 1 3
chris ritson c@r@ritson.ncl@acuk 1 2 3
cormac hand chand.idbie 1 2 -
charles f hankel charles.hankel@mersinet@couk 1 2 3
james lawson chasm.ccl4org - 1 2
charles lindsey chl.clw@cs@man@acuk 1 2 3
chris taylor chris.cjt@couk 1 - -
christian p. hansen chris.hansenhome@demon@couk 1 2 -
chris clough chrisc.pobox@couk 1 2 3
m. bray cima.eriw@u-netcom 1 2 -
chris livsey cjl.ocrixon@demon@couk - 1 -
colin johnson colin.auto2000@ndirect@couk 1 2 -
colin cockerill colinc.btinternetcom - 1 2
conor o'neill conor.puddle@demon@couk 3 1 2
chris croughton crough45.amcde 1 2 -
david damerell damerell.chiark@greenend@orguk 2 1 3
dan glover dan.dangl@demon@couk 1 2 3
dave mason dave.deasil@demon@couk 1 2 3
david spencer dave.dsds@demon@couk - 1 2
dave millard dave.focus3@demon@couk 2 1 -
dave pearson davep.hagbard@demon@couk 1 2 3
david m bloor david.bloor@demon@couk 2 1 -
david morris david.davidm@demon@couk 1 2 -
david husband david.scanmaster@couk 1 2 3
denis fuller denis.chf@softnet@couk 1 2 3
david jones djones.borve@demon@couk 3 1 2
doug weller dweller.ramtops@demon@couk 1 2 -
edward king eaking.ulape@demon@couk 3 1 2
edmund hey edmund@g@hey.student@shu@acuk 2 1 3
gareth james horton gareth@horton.guildsoft@couk 1 2 3
gerard alan latham gerard.galatham@demon@couk 1 2 3
graham nye graham.tyndale@demon@couk 1 2 -
grant denkinson grant@denkinson.nottingham@acuk - - 1
guy morgan guy.onelight@demon@couk 1 2 3
hilde fernandez hilde.borve@demon@couk - 1 2
hugh simmons hugh.st-ronan@demon@couk 1 2 3
ian brown ian.ibrownandco@demon@couk 1 2 -
ian peattie ian.johnrich@demon@couk 2 1 -
ian k. ridley ikr2.le@acuk 3 1 2
james nash j@nash.mdx@acuk 1 2 3
jon harley j@w@harley.warwick@acuk 2 1 -
jonathan jones jajones.ermine@ox@acuk 2 1 3
james sears james.acornusersorg - 1 2
jeff lewis jeff.rhondda@demon@couk 2 1 -
jim hill jim.jh-c@demon@couk 3 2 1
john collins jmc.xisl@couk - - 1
j. m. line jml4.cus@cam@acuk 1 2 3
joe hakeney joe.kinchyle@karoo@couk 1 2 3
joel rowbottom joel.jmlnet 3 2 1
dr j r stockton jrs.merlyn@demon@couk 1 2 -
julie brandon julie.merp@demon@couk 1 2 -
jwilson jwilson.sol@couk 1 2 -
kevin benjamin kbenjamin.kevinbenjamin@demon@couk 2 1 3
kevin bracey kbracey.acorn@couk 3 1 2
martin biddiscombe m@biddiscombe.ucl@acuk 1 2 3
mark eller mark.ellmar@demon@couk 2 1 -
matthew j. mcnally mattmc.globalnet@couk 2 1 -
dave mayall mayalld.postoffice@couk - - -
michael saunby mike.chook@demon@couk 1 2 -
mike mike.emgee@demon@couk - - 1
mike scott mike.moose@demon@couk 3 1 2
mike henry mike.tw2com 1 3 2
miles batchelor miles.batchelor@prestel@couk - 1 -
michael p mccormack monitor.insider@couk 1 2 -
neil irving neil.neilirving@demon@couk 1 2 3
neil harris neil.nharris@demon@couk 1 - -
dave eastabrook news.elmbronze@demon@couk 1 2 -
stuart millington news.wormhole@demon@couk 1 2 3
lesley simpson news1.corwyn@demon@couk 1 2 3
nick yarrow nick.nyarrow@demon@couk 1 2 3
nick austin nick.tcp@couk 2 1 -
nir leuchter nir.easynet@couk 2 1 -
nf stevens norman.arcady@u-netcom 1 2 -
neil chue hong npch.tardis@ed@acuk 1 2 3
patrick herring patrick@herring.btcom 1 2 3
paul ainsworth paul@ainsworth.gecmcom 1 2 -
paul j johnson paulj.mersinet@couk 1 2 3
paul bolchover pb10003.cus@cam@acuk 2 1 3
pete humble peet.dircon@couk 2 1 3
pete biggs pete.physchem@ox@acuk 1 2 3
peter thomson peter@thomson.dial@pipexcom 2 1 3
peter mcminn peter.lemoncurry@cix@couk 2 1 3
peter parry peter.wppltd@demon@couk 3 1 2
philip hunt philh.vision25@demon@couk 1 2 -
mike paley pmailkee.waverider@couk 2 1 3
roger bathurst rbb.tao@j-sainsbury@couk 1 2 -
richard palmer richard.amega@demon@couk 2 1 3
richard challis richard.challrj@demon@couk 1 2 -
richard ashton richard.corixia@demon@couk 3 1 2
richard lamont richard.stonix@demon@couk 1 2 3
richard clayton richard.turnpikecom 3 1 2
rick martin rick@martin.pixel-groupcom - - 1
rob hindle rob.hndl@demon@couk 1 2 3
rob alexander rob.mhairi@demon@couk 2 1 3
robbie robert@irvine.gecmcom - - 1
robert munro robert.cauzality@demon@couk 1 2 3
roger barnett roger.natron@demon@couk 1 - -
rowland carson rowil.claranet 1 2 3
stephen h f ralph sandwell_plan.cix@compulink@couk 1 2 -
sarah baker sarah.simple-signshop@demon@couk 2 1 3
tony towers sat.systematic@couk 1 2 -
simon hargrave simon.facilitator@demon@couk 1 2 3
simon gray simon.star-one@orguk - - -
michael rumboll smiker.dircon@couk 2 1 -
tim stannard stannard.adhoc@demon@couk 1 - -
steve sutton steve.etheral@demon@couk 1 3 2
steven clarke steven@clarke.monmouth@demon@couk 2 1 3
steve way steveway.ways@demon@couk 3 1 2
s.w.f. borthwick swfb.bokop@win-uknet 1 - -
terry phillips terryphi.aolcom 2 1 -
t lee tfl.psp@couk 1 2 3
anthony gold tgold.panixcom 1 2 3
tim sharrock tjsharrock.ieeorg 2 1 3
tim forcer tmf.ecs@soton@acuk 1 2 3
a bournes tone.antb@demon@couk 1 2 3
tony walton tony@walton.sun@couk 1 2 -
tony blakeway tony.aqualung@demon@couk 1 2 3
trevor wood trevor.rds-ltd@couk 1 2 -
vivien birch vivien@b.south-cotswold@prestel@couk 1 2 3
adrian vickers vote@y.toolsbase@demon@couk 1 2 3
chris keen vote.aimless@demon@couk 2 1 3
paul womar vote.pwomar@demon@couk 2 1 3
steve wright voted.wrightnet@demon@couk 1 2 -
tobias erle vote-uk.erleorg 2 1 3
warren hoy warren.gwtech@demon@couk 2 1 -
ross younger wry20.cam@acuk 1 2 -
henry williams ygroup-ballot.christchurch@demon@couk 1 2 3
a uk.tech.y2k
b uk.tech.year-2000
c status quo
invalid votes
name email problem
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alan j. wylie alanw@wylie.zen@couk 1
cameron dunn c@r@dunn.bath@acuk 3
jeremy clark etljck.etlxdmx.ericssonse 1
gavin chester gavin.mindlesscom 4
nick leverton leveret.warren@demon@couk 2
peter hall phall.atlan-techcom 2
rob hindle sheffield.hndl@demon@couk 2
1 acknowledgement bounced. user does not exist at address, address
does not exist or address incorrectly input.
2 name or address (or both) was missing from the ballot form.
3 not on ballot form
4 spoilt paper
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SJFBeckwith,
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Co-Ordinator and Votetaker, UKVoting.
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