Path: oaktree.co.uk!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!newspeer.highwayone.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Alex Holden Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.rec.fishing.coarse Subject: RESULT: uk.rec.fishing.match FAILS (12:1) Followup-To: uk.net.news.config Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:35:09 +0000 Sender: Charles Lindsey as Deputy Control Approved: Charles Lindsey as Deputy Control Message-ID: X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 984417169 mail2news:29482 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!probity.mcc.ac.uk!nessie.mcc.ac.uk!clw.cs.man.ac.uk Lines: 173 Xref: oaktree.co.uk uk.net.news.announce:2147 uk.net.news.config:106257 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- RESULT OF CALL FOR VOTES Summary: Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.rec.fishing.match PROPOSAL - Create newsgroup uk.rec.fishing.match FAILS 12:1 ======================================================================== Voting closed at 23:59:59 GMT, 6th March 2001. Proponent: Mark Seymour Votetaker: Alex Holden ======================================================================== Distribution: uk.net.news.announce, uk.net.news.config, uk.rec.fishing.coarse ======================================================================== The Results: The results follow below in the following order: 1) Results 2) Voting Details 3) Votetakers Comments 4) Voting and Appeal Guidelines 5) Rationale, Summary of Discussion & Proposed Charter ======================================================================== RESULTS: PROPOSAL - Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.rec.fishing.match YES : 12 votes NO : 1 votes ABSTAIN : 4 votes Total : 17 votes YES beat NO by a majority of 11 votes. For passage, there must be 12 more YES votes than NO votes. Accordingly, this proposal FAILS. ======================================================================== VOTING DETAILS: Adrian blue@white=btinternet@moc Yes Rob borntobag@field=virgin@etn Yes Derek Moody derek@moody=clara@etn No dominiclloyd dominiclloy=@genie@oc@ku Yes David Mahon fish01_vote=amigo@oc@ku Abstain James Farrar flynny=redhotant@moc Abstain JerryP j@paris=virgin@etn Yes Lenx len=kempsonl@freeserve@oc@ku Yes Mark mark@seymour=virgin@etn Yes mike mfreeman=lineone@etn Yes Neil Jellis neil@jellis=synapse-partnership@moc Yes Pete petenoze=lineone@etn Yes Phillip Powell philip=blencathra@gro@ku Abstain Robert Todd r@todd=ntlworld@moc Yes Bob Mallett ramallet=itl@etn Yes Richard Kettlewell rjk+ukv-fish01=sfere@greenend@org@ku Abstain Si simon=stephenshomehardware@moc Yes Invalid vote: Laurence Gascoigne - No ballot paper sent ======================================================================== VOTETAKERS COMMENTS: The turnout for this vote has been exceptionally low, and with such a low turnout, it was vital for voters to correctly follow instructions. I had to reject 2 votes during the course of this vote for the same reason - no ballot paper sent. To help those two voters, I mailed them a copy of the CFV. One voter returned a correctly filled in vote and their vote was duly counted. ======================================================================== VOTING AND APPEAL GUIDELINES: This vote was conducted by a neutral third party members of UKVoting. UKVoting is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on behalf of the uk.* hierarchy and other 3rd parties. The rules under which votes for the uk.* hierarchy are taken are posted regularly to uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the following URL: The UKVoting web pages can be found at 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. ======================================================================= RATIONALE, SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION AND PROPOSED CHARTER: ======================================================================= RATIONALE: uk.rec.fishing.match uk.rec.fishing.match will create a Usenet forum for the discussion of all aspects of match fishing. This sport has a huge following in the UK and indeed worldwide. Fishing Usenet groups already exist but do not cover the match fishing area. It would be used for match fisherman to swap tips on venues, tackle, baits and general chit chat regarding all aspects of match fishing. ======================================================================= SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION I proposed the creation of a newsgroup uk.rec.fishing.match to cater for all the match anglers in the uk. No specific objections were raised in the original or 2nd RFD. Many suggestions were made most of which pertained to the wording of the Charter etc. I have hoisted these on board. ======================================================================= PROPOSED CHARTER: uk.rec.fishing.match uk.rec.fishing.match is for the discussion of match fishing, which covers all aspects of competitive fishing in the uk. Topics include, but are not limited to: venues, bait, equipment, rules, organisations and requests for relevant information. ADVERTISING Advertising is forbidden, with these exceptions: Suppliers of goods and services relevant to match fishing in the UK may post, not more than once every 3 months, an invitation of four lines or fewer, to visit their web site or request details. The subject line must begin "ADVERT: " BINARIES AND FORMATTING Encoded binaries (e.g. pictures, compressed files, etc.) are forbidden. Such material belongs on a web or FTP site to which a pointer may be posted. Cryptographic signatures (e.g. PGP) may be used where authentication is important and should be as short as possible. SIGNATURES Signatures must be no bigger than four lines of 79 characters. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 5.0i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOqzstGOfGXkh8vHZAQGPYAP/eCPpznbaWwh1asZLE7QdgHevG1seF2v7 v66AZ5TffMmxucuJS2oHyldZm29M6awLW/KKTaa0Sli9nqMDVsrtRos3W+/yvigt hnoOAWtznegIk88CZts1SEMZYCD88lLDGJPkqrJTGl11ccTgogtN9cE0aMSpUaKn IaiBBg7kWAY= =58vp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----