RESULT: Moderation of uk.religion.jewish PASSES 27 : 2 Author: Iain D. Bowen Email: voting@harlech.demon.co.uk Date: 1995/12/31 Forums: uk.net.news.config, uk.net.news.announce, uk.religion.jewish Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RESULT moderate newsgroup uk.religion.jewish Voting for this CFV closed 23:59:59 UTC, 24 December 1995. The deadline was extended due to the 2nd CFV not reaching Control. This vote was conducted by a neutral third party. For voting questions only contact Iain Bowen For questions about the proposal itself contact Chris Newport (crn@netix.demon.co.uk) SUMMARY Moderation PASSES 27 : 2 DISTRIBUTION This result will be cross-posted to the following relevant newsgroups: uk.religion.jewish, uk.net.news.announce, uk.net.news.config RATIONALE It is proposed that uk.religion.jewish should be moderated. This newsgroup attracts large volumes of nuisance posts, most of which are crossposted from other newsgroups. It is unfortunate that a Jewish newsgroup, by it's very existance, attracts abuse. The problem has reached a point where nuisance postings outnumber valid discussions and seriously inhibit valid discussions. The only possible solution is moderation. MODERATION POLICY It is proposed that a 2 stage moderation process is used which will use a robo-moderator as a primary filter. This will allow posts from known users to bypass the human moderator and go direct to the newsbase. All postings rejected by the robo-moderator will be forwarded to a human moderator for approval. New users will be welcomed and will receive a copy of the group charter before being added to the known user list. It may be possible to simplify the process by referring only crossposted articles to the human moderator. It is NOT intended that the moderator(s) should censor postings, the objective is the keep discussions broadly within the defined topic of 'Judaism from a UK perspective'. ++--------------------------------------------------------------------++ AMENDED CHARTER Newsgroup Name: uk.religion.jewish Newsgroups line: Judaism in the UK. Proponent: Chris Newport crn@netix.demon.co.uk Moderation: Moderated. Advertising: Short announcements of specific interest to British Jews ONLY. Binaries: None. CHARTER OF UK.RELIGION.JEWISH This newsgroup is intended as a general discussion area for UK Jews, and as an information resource about Judaism in the UK. Short description: Judaism in the UK. Welcome: Non-jews are welcome to join us to ask bona-fide questions, and to discover information about Judaism. Please read the entire charter BEFORE posting. Language: All postings should be in English. Where Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino or Aramaic words or phrases are used these should be translated. Eg:- Brit Milah [circumcision]. Shabbat Observance: Shabbat [the Jewish sabbath] begins 18 minutes before local sunset on friday and ends after darkness on saturday. Please do not post within these times. The saving of life is exempt from this restriction. Discussion topics: On-topic discussions include: Discussions regarding judaism from a UK perspective. Announcements of specific interest to UK Jews. Announcement of Jewish and Interfaith events. General chatter and schmoozing by UK Jews. Providing information about Judaism to any interested parties. Prohibited postings: The following are considered to be off-topic and are NOT permitted. Crosspostings other than announcements of bona-fide interfaith events which may be crossposted to all uk.religion newsgroups. Attacks against Judaism or Jewish practices. Note that this restriction is not intended to inhibit valid debate within a Jewish context. Missionary postings and proselyting of any kind. Any posting by, or about, so-called 'jews for jesus', 'messianic jews' and similar groups who are actually christian and should use alt.messianic or uk.religion.christian. Postings denying the holocaust. Any material intended to be offensive to Jews including antisemitic material. Advertising in general except for SHORT announcements of special interest to UK Jews. Flames and ad-hominum attacks of any kind. Binary postings of any kind including any postings which are not readable in plain language English. Information: A FAQ will be regularly posted which will contain information about where to find Jewish resources on the net. FINAL VOTING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The following list of addresses is copyright 1995 by the Revolutionary Penguin Press(1985). Use for any purpose other than verifying the vote for this newsgroup is prohibited. Final Vote Ack -------------- alan@bittern.demon.co.uk Alan Zanker Y andrewh@dircon.co.uk Andrew Hougie Y arubin@cix.compulink.co.uk Alan Rubin Y bjohnson@mail.zynet.co.uk Barry Johnson Y cbs3dml@gps.leeds.ac.uk Daniel Leigh Y Charles@clock.demon.co.uk Charles Golding Y crn@netix.demon.co.uk Chris Newport Y D.S.Levene@durham.ac.uk David Levene Y Eddie@essa.demon.co.uk Eddie Stone Y el@gingold.demon.co.uk Elliot Gingold Y Ethan@wooster.demon.co.uk Ethan P. Rasiel Y fredw@fred1.demon.co.uk Fred Weil Y freedman@fishpond.demon.co.uk Paul Freedman Y Howard.Orgel@orgels.demon.co.uk Howard Orgel Y ian@tanagra.demon.co.uk Ian Chard Y kgoodman@atlantic.demon.co.uk Karen Goodman Y lbunder@aol.com Leslie Bunder Y mark@alexr.co.uk Mark Alexander Y mglick@ilcs.demon.co.uk Menachem Glickman Y nick@alek.demon.co.uk Nicholas Aleksander Y nick@n-landau.demon.co.uk Nick Landau Y pi@macabre.demon.co.uk Peregrine Ince Y Richard@landale.demon.co.uk Dov Landau Y richard@mdavis.demon.co.uk Richard Davis Y Richard@r-woolf.demon.co.uk Richard P Woolf Y Tony@brij000.demon.co.uk Tony Reese Y Tox@world.std.com R S Y Buchanan Y garry@bar-nett.demon.co.uk Daniel Barnett N tfl@psp.co.uk Thomas Lee N Votes in error ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- dcurtis@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Unknown Address Votetakers Note: A number of votes, potentially for this CFV, were rejected as they consisted of the word YES or "I vote for this" with no sign of a ballot, no Subject: line or anything else to distinguish them. They are not mentioned in the Failed votes list as they may not have been for this CFV (I have been running two votes) and I'm damned if I'm going to try to trace votes to CFV's by References: headers (for those mailers which aren't so broken that they actually use them). -- Iain D. Bowen - Volunteer Votetaker, UK-VOTING. voting@harlech.demon.co.uk please use alaric@harlech.demon.co.uk for personal mail.