09 Feb 2004: Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.net.news.moderation


From: Barry Salter <xmod01-query@southie.me.uk>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 22:51:58 +0000
Subject: RESULT: Create newsgroup uk.net.news.moderation FAILS 29:24
Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config

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                        RESULT OF CALL FOR VOTES

Summary: Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.net.news.moderation

Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.net.news.moderation FAILS 29:24
             
YES beat NO by a majority of 5 votes. For group passage, there must be 
12 more YES votes than NO votes. Accordingly, the proposal FAILS.

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Voting closed at 23:59:59 GMT, 2nd February 2004.

Proponent: Richard Ashton <{R} <at> semolina <dot> org>
Votetaker: Barry Salter <xmod01-query at southie.me.uk>

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Distribution:

uk.net.news.announce
uk.net.news.config

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The Results:

The results follow below in the following order:

1) Summary of Mail Received During the Voting Period
2) Results
3) Individual Vote Details
4) Votetakers Comments
5) Voting and Appeal Guidelines
6) Rationale
7) Newsgroups Line
8) Proposed Charter

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SUMMARY OF MAIL RECEIVED DURING THE VOTING PERIOD

 71 messages were received to the Ballot Request Address, of which:

 67 were valid Ballot Requests
  4 were virus-infected messages
  
 58 messages were received to the Voting Address, of which:

 55 were valid Votes
  3 were valid Votes subsequently superseded by the Voter

121 messages were received to the Votetaker's Address, of which:

121 were warnings of viruses intercepted by the company hosting the
    votetaker's domain

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RESULTS:

Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.net.news.moderation

    YES : 29 votes
     NO : 24 votes
ABSTAIN :  2 votes
  Total : 55 votes

YES beat NO by a majority of 5 votes. For group passage, there must be 
12 more YES votes than NO votes. Accordingly, the proposal FAILS.

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INDIVIDUAL VOTE DETAILS

Voted Yes - 29 votes
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annabel$amsmyth#demon#co#uk                                Annabel Smyth
anonimulo2003$yahoo#com                                        anonimulo
burkesworks$lineone#net                                        Tez Burke
cfv_unnm$crowfam#org#uk                                     Jim Crowther
craig$craigoldfield#co#uk                                          Craig

dave$focus3#uk#com                                          Dave Millard
daviduri$bigfoot#com                                           David Uri
dmahon_vote_xmod01$amigo#co#uk                               David Mahon
dmh$dmh#org#uk                                                    Dave H
fred$fredc#demon#co#uk                                              fred

hyphen$hyphenologist#co#uk                                 Dave Fawthrop
john$waterfoot#org                                             John Bean
jongru$btinternet#com                                          The Todal
jpb8$duke#edu                                                        JBM
katnews$ntlworld#com                                                 kat

news$vmlinuz#org                                           Richard Cohen
pedt$dontspame#com                                                  Pedt
pete_the_gardener$hotmail#com                          Pete The Gardener
philip$blencathra#org#uk                                   Philip Powell
requiem$freeuk#com                                          Dave Johnson

roger$hayter#org                                            Roger Hayter
roy$ellor#vispa#com                                            Roy Ellor
somerat$hotmail#com                                          Kim Andrews
spam-trap$beeb#net                                          Steve Walker
UKvote$lehun#clara#co#uk                                      Alan LeHun

unm$good-stuff#co#uk                                         Mark Goodge
voting$deepsea#force9#co#uk                                         Iain
wanderer$tesco#net                                              Wanderer
{pc}$vlaad#co#uk                                            Paul Cummins

Voted No - 24 votes
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adam+usenet$pappnase#co#uk                                    Adam Price
andrew$hodgsonfamily#org                                  Andrew Hodgson
barryd$idunno#org                                          Barry Dorrans
bigfoot$davros#org                                       Anthony R# Gold
Brian$bjforster#force9#co#uk                                       Brian

chl$clerew#man#ac#uk                                     Charles Lindsey
clive$davros#org                                           Clive Feather
debbie$cybertheology#net             moderator for uk.religion.christian
ebb#chernobyl$softhome#net                                 Ebb Chernobyl
graham#drabble$lineone#net                                Graham Drabble

neil$chaos#org#uk                                          Neil Matthews
owen#rees$tesco#net                                            Owen Rees
paul$harper#net                                              Paul Harper
pete$fenelon#com                                            Pete Fenelon
peter$wpp#ltd#uk                                             Peter Parry

ph$anweald#co#uk                                         Patrick Herring
psmyth$ukf#net                                               Peter Smyth
richard$highwayman#com                                   Richard Clayton
robert$chezmarshall#freeserve#co#uk                      Robert Marshall
tcnw61$tarrcity#demon#co#uk                                           Wm

tfl$psp#co#uk                                                 thomas lee
thebarsteward$freeuk#com                                  The Barsteward
xmod01$sarnie#org#uk                                          Dave Mason
{voter}$watman#clara#co#uk                                          paul

Abstained - 2 votes
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jim$us-lot#org                                             Lt. Cmdr. Jim
ukvotes$tinc#org#uk                                   Malcolm Mladenovic

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Votetakers Comments:

A reasonably straightforward vote for a change, with the vast majority
of voters following the instructions correctly though, disappointingly,
some still returned the entire ballot mail with their vote at the bottom
rather than deleting the rest of the message as requested, and one voter
whose vote had an XML version as well as the plain text.

As noted in the mail summary above, only 4 virus-infected mails were
received at the ballot request address, but 121 were sent to the address
used to post the CFV, though these were all intercepted by Gradwell, so
all I received was 121 warning messages.

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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 at usenet.org.uk.

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RATIONALE: 

The uk.* hierarchy has a number of moderated groups. There is no specific
place where moderators, moderated group readers, and other interested
parties may discuss matters concerning existing or proposed moderated
groups. There needs to be such a place as a discussion of the moderation
of a group in the group itself may not be appropriate, or desirable.

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NEWSGROUPS LINE

uk.net.news.moderation	Discussion of the moderation of uk.* groups

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PROPOSED CHARTER: uk.net.news.moderation

The group may discuss any and all aspects of moderation, including 
cancellation of posts, of any proposed or existing uk.* groups.

Complaints by posters who feel they have been mistreated by moderators
are specifically on topic. Other topics may include, but are not limited
to, moderation software, moderation rules, selection and election of
moderators, moderators responsibilities, moderators regular postings,
complaints from aggrieved posters, PGPMoose, multiple moderated groups, 
etc.

Advertising

Advertising is forbidden.

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 plain text. HTML, RTF and similarly formatted
messages are prohibited. To see how to make some common newsreaders
comply with this, read <http://www.usenet.org.uk/ukpost.html>.

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