Path: oaktree.co.uk!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!skynet.be!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: alan@whirlnet.co.uk (Alan Ford) Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.local.southwest Subject: RESULTS: New Newsgroup uk.local.devon PASSES Followup-To: uk.net.news.config Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 19:42:19 GMT Sender: control@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) Approved: Charles Lindsey acting as control Message-ID: X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 959203289 mail2news:4837 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: 269 Xref: oaktree.co.uk uk.net.news.announce:1822 uk.net.news.config:90357 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- RESULT OF CALL FOR VOTES New Newsgroup uk.local.devon PASSES - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Voting began Monday 26 April 2000 Voting closed Friday 19 May 2000 23:59:59 BST Proponent: Andrew Hartley Votetaker: alan@whirlnet.co.uk (Alan Ford) - --------------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRIBUTION These results have been posted to: uk.net.news.announce uk.net.news.config uk.local.southwest - -------------------------------------------------------------------- RESULTS COUNTING The three options were: 1) Create New Newsgroup (YES) 2) Status Quo (SQ) no new newsgroup 3) Re Open Discussion (ROD) discussion reopens STAGE ONE - Options compared to Status Quo: YES preferred to Status Quo by 25 votes to 4 ROD preferred to Status Quo by 23 votes to 6 All options beat status quo by at least 12 votes and so continue... STAGE TWO - Remaining options compared with each other YES preferred to Re-Open Discussion by 26 votes to 6 YES was preferred to all the other options, and had a majority of more than twelve, therefore the group is created with the charter as given below. There were a total of 33 votes. There will be a five day discussion period after these results have been posted before the group is created to allow for any allegations of irregularities to be raised. The Rationale, Summary of Discussion, Proposal, and Charter follow the main results for informational purposes. RAW PREFERENCES GRID YES SQ ROD YES [n/a] [ 25] [ 26] SQ [ 4] [n/a] [ 6] ROD [ 6] [ 23] [n/a] In this grid, each number represents the number of votes which were cast that preferred the option named in the number's row to the option appropriate to the number's column. For instance, 25 votes preferred option one (YES) to SQ while 6 votes preferred reopening the discussion to option one (YES). OPPOSITE COMPARISONS GRID YES SQ ROD YES [n/a] [ 21] [ 20] SQ [-21] [n/a] [-17] ROD [-20] [ 17] [n/a] In this grid, each number represents the number of votes which were cast that preferred the option named in the number's row to the option appropriate to the number's column less the number of votes which were cast that preferred the option named in the number's column to the option appropriate to the number's row. For instance, 21 more people preferred Option 1 (YES) to Status Quo than preferred Status Quo to Option 1 (YES). As shown by all the numbers in its row in the lower grid being positive, Option 1 (YES) was preferred to all other options and hence wins the ballot. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE RESULTS IN FULL Total Votes: 33 Re-open discussion----------------------------------------------------+ Status quo---------------------------------------------------------+ | Yes-------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | | | Andrew Hartley andrew@eastupham.freeserve.co.uk 1 3 2 Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk - - 1 Big Al alan@mcwatterss.freeserve.co.uk 1 3 2 Clive Martin clive@cmartin.demon.co.uk 1 3 2 Dave Mason dave@lowjobs.co.uk 1 3 2 David Damerell damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk - - 1 Denis F bedfordtlfan@yahoo.com 3 1 2 Dev Null dev.null@ntlworld.com 1 3 2 EngCricket EngCricket@aol.com 1 3 2 Graham Nye graham@tyndale.demon.co.uk 1 - 2 Guy guy@first-light-services.co.uk 1 3 2 j6 james@seads.fsnet.co.uk 1 3 2 James Farrar flynny@redhotant.co.uk 1 1 1 Jezza jezza@hotwells.freeserve.co.uk 1 3 2 Jilli jilli@gmt.prestel.co.uk 1 3 2 Jim Benton-Evans jim@benton-evans.demon.co.uk 1 3 2 John Hill john@yclept.freeserve.co.uk 1 3 2 Jon Thomson jon@thomson2273.freeserve.co.uk 1 3 2 Kevin Andreoli kevin@andreoli.co.uk 1 3 2 King Queen King.Queen@iname.com 1 3 2 Martin Matthews martin@tacit.worldonline.co.uk 1 3 2 Matt Wicken matt@mwicken.freeserve.co.uk 3 1 2 Michael Parry michael@cavrdg.demon.co.uk 1 3 2 Peter Clampett pete@culmstock.demon.co.uk 1 3 3 Philip Powell philip@blencathra.demon.co.uk 1 3 2 Richard Kettlewell rjk+uldevon1@sfere.greenend.org.uk 1 1 2 richard letts richard-vote@illuin.org 1 - - Steve Bloomer Steve@crowpark.demon.co.uk 1 3 2 Steve Wright steve@wrightnet.demon.co.uk 1 2 2 Tez Burke burkesworks@lineone.net 1 2 3 The Fourth Warrior dave@detankard.u-net.com 3 1 2 Tim Forcer tmf@ecs.soton.ac.uk 1 3 2 tobias erle vote-uk@kholdan.in-berlin.de 3 1 2 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VOTETAKER'S COMMENTS: Quite a small turnout for this vote, but the result seems conclusive. Thanks to all voters for getting their votes tidy straight off -- it really does make my job easier :) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROPONENT'S RATIONALE: I am proposing that a new newsgroup should be created that is only for a county in the south west area, rather than the whole of the south west. The area covered at the moment is too large and 'puts off' a lot of people because of this. So therefore I propose that uk.local.devon should be created to reduce the area to a countywide group. More county groups may be proposed at a later date (e.g. uk.l.somerset). - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROPONENT'S SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION In response to comments posted during the initial discussion, I have corrected the wording of parts of the charter and deleted some paragraphs. The charter itself has not changed in essence. Some issues were raised other than the changes to the charter. The main issue was about the support for the group. Would anyone use it, or would it just be another group clogging up ISP's valuable disk space? Several views were posted including quite a lot in favour for the new group, there was a general consensus that the current area covered (uk.local.southwest) was too large and this needed to become smaller. This also relates to another issue that the area is already being covered. Again, as above, there was a general consensus that the current area covered (uk.local.southwest) was too large and this needed to become smaller. Towards the end of the RFD the proponent asked if there were any objections about this continuing to fast-track. No such objections were posted. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWSGROUP LINE uk.local.devon This group is to promote events and discussion in Devon! CHARTER: uk.local.devon (not moderated) uk.local.devon is for the discussion of issues relevant to Devon in the Southwest of England. For the purposes of this newsgroup Devon is defined as anywhere now or previously in the County of Devon. Messages posted to this newsgroup must not be cross-posted to more than a TOTAL of four uk.local.* newsgroups; these may be geographically adjacent or overlapping, or connected by the subject of the post (e.g. "moving house from Exeter to Birmingham"). Note that the advertising of widely-available goods or services is *not* relevant in this context, and that most uk.local.* groups have restrictions on advertising, or prohibit it. Cross-posted adverts, where allowed, must meet the requirements of the charters of *all* groups involved. ADVERTISING Advertising is forbidden, with these exceptions: Suppliers of goods and services relevant to events in Devon in the UK, may post an invitation to visit their web site or request details. It should be of four lines or fewer and not posted more than once every month. The subject line should begin "ADVERT: ". Event organisers may also post an invitation to visit their web site or request details. It should be of six lines or fewer and not posted more than twice every month. The subject line should begin "EVENT: ". All other advertising must be posted in uk.local.southwest.adverts. BINARIES & 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. Posts must be readable as plaintext. HTML, RTF and similarly formatted messages are prohibited. To see how to make your newsreader comply with this, read . WARNING Anyone posting contrary to this charter may be reported to their "postmaster" and/or Service Provider. END CHARTER - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This vote was conducted by a neutral third party member 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: ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/news.answers/uk/voting The UKVoting web pages can be found at http://www.ukvoting.org.uk/ 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOSwwhmOfGXkh8vHZAQGYFgP+KnyJjcKuenL+0m2/8sVXAlJcgVkjP7BN 8sfuMf8o6KpXi8SdIYkWhwuFaqpnfk12MJkqJ/7rBgl0Etd8x7ip476p4Zr1NiuJ gHnGoMUQPJXA0KBeSvVBPGZ1HYW+FIU7g3J2lQJuMT/m8bJWQDF/4KaTjFfuEeH/ lFYSQOTEGYo= =c25Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Alan Ford UKVoting Votetaker