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 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YES votes --------- 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 -------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------- 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". -- Iain D. Bowen - Volunteer Votetaker, UK-VOTING. voting(at)harlech.demon.co.uk please use alaric(at)harlech.demon.co.uk for personal mail. UK-VOTING web pages are at http://www.harlech.demon.co.uk/ukvoting.htm