11 Sep 1997: uk.rec.ufo
RESULT: uk.rec.ufo PASSES 41:3
Author: Iain Bowen
Email: voting@harlech.demon.co.uk
Date: 1997/09/11
Forums: uk.net.news.announce, uk.net.news.config, alt.ufo.reports, alt.alien.research, alt.alien.visitors, alt.paranet.ufo, alt.paranet.abduct
Message-ID: <result-uk.rec.ufo-970911-214112@usenet.org.uk>
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RESULT
create unmoderated group uk.rec.ufo
Voting closed 23:59:59 GMT, Saturday 7th September 1997
This vote was conducted by a neutral third party member of UK-VOTING.
UK-VOTING is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on CFV's 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. Further
information on UK-VOTING can be found at http://www.harlech.demon.co.uk
For voting questions only contact voting@harlech.demon.co.uk (Iain Bowen).
For questions about the new group contact: Chris@turmoil.demon.co.uk (Christopher Stock)
DISTRIBUTION:
This RESULT has been posted to the following newsgroups:
uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,alt.ufo.reports,
alt.alien.research,alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,
alt.paranet.abduct
Summary: uk.rec.ufo UFO phenomena, reports and related topics in the UK.
CHARTER for uk.rec.ufo
uk.rec.ufo will be an unmoderated newsgroup for the general
discussion of all aspects of Ufology and related topics by UK
based netizens.
Related Topics are likely to include;
SETI, Conspiracies and Cover-ups, Alien Life-forms, Abductions,
Space-Travel (Human or otherwise), Space Exploration (NASA, ESA)
Space Technology.
Moderation:
This group will not be moderated.
Advertising:
Short, on-topic commercial advertisements of products, services,
clubs and forthcoming events relevant to Ufology are welcomed
but large advertising lists and off-topic adverts are not permitted.
Advertisements for UFO related WWW sites and subscribers homepages
are acceptable but should be kept to a maximum of 3 lines or
preferably should be contained within subscibers `signatures'.
Binaries:
The posting of binary files to this group is not permitted under
any cicumstances.
Short messages notifying of binary posts to more appropriate groups
will be permitted but should be kept to 3 lines or less.
Summary Result: The group passes 41:3.
FINAL VOTING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The following list of votes is copyright 1997 by the Revolutionary Penguin
Press(1985). Use for any purpose other than verifying the vote for this
newsgroup is expressly prohibited.
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YES votes
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adam.jones(at)virgin.net Adam Jones
alastair.hendry(at)dial.pipex.com Alastair Hendry
alex(at)fairfield.demon.co.uk Alex Ray
alex.foster(at)zetnet.co.uk Alexander Foster
alpha(at)isbn0-7100-7423-9.demon.co.uk Colin Russ
amethyst(at)jadzia.demon.co.uk Amethyst
ari(at)sarkar.demon.co.uk Ari Sarkar
chris(at)vineries.demon.co.uk Chris Watts
Charlie.Turner(at)btinternet.com Charles Turner
Chris(at)turmoil.demon.co.uk Chris Stock
doug.thompson(at)virgin.net Doug Thompson
gary.myers(at)natpower.com Gary Myers
gmacrae(at)dundeecity.gov.uk Gary Macrae
ian(at)macmillan.prestel.co.uk Ian McMillan
Ian.Porter(at)zx81.demon.co.uk Ian Porter
john(at)johnpb.demon.co.uk John Bennett
ken(at)psynet.net Ken Hughes
marrand(at)kanyemba.demon.co.uk Malcolm Arrand
mayalld(at)postoffice.co.uk Dave Mayall
mcave(at)globalnet.co.uk Martin Cave
mclane(at)dellos.demon.co.uk Paul Irving
mcr(at)wildcard.demon.co.uk Martin Rodgers
michael(at)unicorn-connection.co.uk Michael Parry
mickjones(at)cix.compulink.co.uk Michael Jones
mike(at)tara.demon.co.uk Mike Welch
npch(at)tardis.ed.ac.uk Neil Chue Hong
online(at)acromar.demon.co.uk Bob Smythe
peter1(at)webmaker.demon.co.uk Peter Morgan
phupp(at)wormhole.demon.co.uk Stuart Millington
Pete(at)madhippy.demon.co.uk Pete Robinson
rogerv(at)btinternet.com Roger Venison
rjps(at)kalevala.demon.co.uk Roy Stilling
Richard(at)challrj.demon.co.uk Richard John Challis
simon(at)espi.co.uk Simon Chambers
twinsuns(at)twinsuns.demon.co.uk Keith Trigwell
waiyan(at)chem.gla.ac.uk Wai-Yan Wan
wcjd(at)mindspring.com Paul Anthony
widdami(at)netcomuk.co.uk Daniel Widdows
win(at)writer.win-uk.net David Windle
wperring(at)surflink.co.uk W Perring
zipster(at)cix.compulink.co.uk Mark Zimmerman
NO votes
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af(at)contract.co.uk Alan Fleming
ajbeane(at)zetnet.co.uk Adrian Beane
alan(at)the-one.demon.co.uk Alan Scobbie
Abstaining in public
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chasm(at)ccl4.org James Lawson
pb10003(at)cus.cam.ac.uk Paul Bolchover
simon(at)star-one.org.uk Simon Gray
Votes in Error
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4704(at)rsm6.racotel.net Spamblock
Geoff.Bramley(at)wanadoo.fr Unreadable Ballot (octet-stream)
jon(at)wibble.powernet.co.uk No real name/handle given
postmaster(at)ellmar.demon.co.uk Multi-user address
AlienResearch(at)Earthcorp.com Bad Headers[1]
gwanegau(at)not.netcomuk.co.uk Spamblock
[1] I'm not happy about this one, essentially it purports to come from three
different places in the headers. I suspect that it is a valid vote, but the
headers have been hacked too much to allow it and leave no valid address.
VOTETAKERS NOTES
Well, I did think I had seen everything, however, ballots arriving as
octet-streams was a new one on me. Both were sent back with a short note that
harlech is a Unix system and that could they possibly return them as plain
text. application/ms-word indeed.[0] I will be changing my rubric so that all
ballots must be sent back in plain text.
There was quite a high level of spamblocks again although several of them
didn't work. I understand the reasons why people do this (voting gets between
8-12 pieces of spam a day at the moment), but surely it can't be too
difficult to remember to remove it when sending an email to someone.
[0] Yes, I know I could have probably extracted the ballot with strings, but
this again falls in to the category of "too much like hard work".
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