Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!feed1.jnfs.ja.net!feed4.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!peernews.mcc.ac.uk!news.mcc.ac.uk!clerew!clerew.man.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: Pedt Scragg Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.net.providers,alt.tv.big-brother,free.uk.tv.bigbrother,uk.media.tv.misc Subject: RESULT: Create unmod. newsgroup uk.media.tv.reality.misc PASSES 14:2 Followup-To: uk.net.news.config Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:51:49 +0100 Message-ID: Sender: Charles Lindsey as Deputy Control Approved: Charles Lindsey as Deputy Control Lines: 212 Xref: uni-berlin.de uk.net.news.announce:3218 uk.net.news.config:194366 uk.net.providers:1745 alt.tv.big-brother:188348 uk.media.tv.misc:434680 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- RESULT OF CALL FOR VOTES Summary: Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.media.tv.reality.misc Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.media.tv.reality.misc PASSES 14:2 YES beat NO by a majority of 12 votes. For group passage, there must be 12 more YES votes than NO votes. Accordingly, the proposal PASSES. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST, 28th September 2004. Proponent : ^Thunder^ Votetaker : Pedt Scragg - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Distribution: uk.net.news.announce uk.net.news.config alt.tv.bigbrother free.uk.tv.bigbrother uk.media.tv.misc - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Results: The results follow below in the following order: 1) Summary of Mail Received During the Voting Period 2) Result 3) Individual Vote Details 4) Votetakers Comments 5) Voting and Appeal Guidelines 6) Rationale 7) Newsgroups Line 8) Charter - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUMMARY OF MAIL RECEIVED DURING THE VOTING PERIOD 28 messages were received to the Ballot Request Address, of which: 21 were valid Ballot Requests 4 were virus-infected messages and other assorted junk 3 were tests by the Votetaker and Control 29 messages were received to the Voting Address, of which: 17 were valid votes 2 were revotes requested for technical reasons 1 was a disallowed vote 4 were copies of email sent to early voters - see votetaker comments 4 were related to queries issued by the votetaker 1 was a test by the Votetaker - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RESULT: Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.media.tv.reality.misc YES : 14 votes NO : 2 votes ABSTAIN : 1 vote Total : 17 votes YES beat NO by a majority of 12 votes. For group passage, there must be 12 more YES votes than NO votes. Accordingly, the proposal PASSES. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INDIVIDUAL VOTE DETAILS Voted Yes - 14 votes - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ^Thunder^ thunder~ukessex.*org*uk Blippie aasfaq~blippie*org*uk clarrie clarrie~gmail*com Dave Mason xumtrm~broonzy*org*uk Dr Zoidberg alex~drzoidberg*co*uk Ebb Chernobyl ebb.chernobyl~softhome*net Fishter fishter~fishter*org*uk gizbon gizbon~higs*co*uk kat kat.news~ntlworld*com Nadeem bambi~sushi*co*jp Paul Harper paul~harper*net Robert Naylor robert~pobice*co*uk Stuart Millington ukmediatvrealitymisc-vote~dsv1*co*uk Tim Miller news~economic-truth*co*uk Voted No - 2 votes - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Boothroyd david~election*demon*co*uk Pete Fenelon pete~fenelon*com Abstained - 1 vote - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Drabble graham.drabble~lineone*net Disallowed - 1 vote - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daytona daytona2~totalise*co*uk - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Votetakers Comments: Overall a relatively straightforward vote despite the initial problem that a few ballot papers were issued with the placeholder for the end date of the vote. These voters received an administrative email from the votetaker advising that the correct end date of the vote was the date on the published CFV - 23:59:59 BST 28th September 2004. On vote was sent via anonymous webmail and the voter did not respond to a query by the votetaker. In the circumstances, the votetaker had no alternative but to disallow the vote. My thanks, as always, to the voters who made it easy and in particular, to those voters who responded courteously and helpfully to a query. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: 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 (at) usenet.org.uk - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RATIONALE: A number of reality tv programmes are being shown on television in the UK. There is heavy media coverage of individual programmes and the opportunity to discuss the merits of programmes with other fans of the genre would be useful. By the creation of this newsgroup in the uk hierarchy the opportunity to add specific reality tv groups (such as big-brother etc.) to this hierarchy is made possible if the demand is shown. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWSGROUPS LINE uk.media.tv.reality.misc For the discussion of reality TV in the UK - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHARTER: uk.media.tv.reality.misc uk.media.tv.reality.misc is for general discussion of UK reality TV programmes. This public forum allows free and open discussion about the programmes, the contestants, format and all other topics relevant to the genre. Predictions for the future of individual shows are also welcome. Other more specific reality TV programmes may be added to the hierarchy if the demand is there. Advertising: Advertising is forbidden. 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. 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 . Warning. Anyone posting contrary to this charter may be reported to their "postmaster" and/or Service Provider. END CHARTER -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 5.0i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBQWQGjWOfGXkh8vHZAQHkxAP/WhcmG7ZsXN4CFK65fwJfkSNDpigeQtIf 27t45su/fTiQcSOCqFh14hVGsl2iD3xuuAe/JzeR4QyCFDOkvivabQKU51DpybHo YUSiOMgwALr9du8R7rZYXDWrT+/l9zsRKGmvGgL7hEdAo88r8wd4qunKSk2yrYPL Blk+kNk6OJI= =/MPt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----