Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!caladan!news-peer-lilac.gradwell.net!not-for-mail From: David Mahon Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.media.tv.six-feet-under Subject: Result: Remove uk.media.tv.six-feet-under FAILS 8:2 Followup-To: uk.net.news.config Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 09:17:05 +0100 Message-ID: Sender: Chris Croughton as Control Approved: Chris Croughton as Control Lines: 164 NNTP-Posting-Date: 08 Aug 2004 08:18:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.0.192.110 X-Trace: 1091953084 news.gradwell.net 58818 control/80.0.192.110 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@gradwell.net Xref: uni-berlin.de uk.net.news.announce:3197 uk.net.news.config:193604 uk.media.tv.six-feet-under:583 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- RESULT OF CALL FOR VOTES Summary: Remove uk.media.tv.six-feet-under FAILS 8:2 The proposal beats the status quo by 8 votes to 2. This is less than the margin of 12 or more votes that is required and the proposal therefore fails. - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST, 4th August 2004. Proponent: Barry Salter Votetaker: David Mahon - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Distribution: uk.net.news.announce uk.net.news.config uk.media.tv.six-feet-under - --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) Proposal 7) Rationale 8) Newsgroups Line - --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY OF MAIL RECEIVED DURING THE VOTING PERIOD 13 messages were received to the voting address, of which: 11 were valid votes 2 were tests by the votetaker - --------------------------------------------------------------------- RESULT: Remove uk.media.tv.six-feet-under This was a straightforward YES/NO vote. To pass, the status quo (NO) must be beaten by a margin of 12 or more votes. There were only 11 votes and it was therefore impossible to beat the status quo by the required margin of 12 or more votes. The proposal beats the status quo by 6 votes (8:2), which is less than the required margin, thus the proposal fails. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- INDIVIDUAL VOTE DETAILS Paul Harper paul%harper*ten Y Barry Salter umtsfu-prop%southie*em*ku Y Paul Cummins paul%cummins*ie*ue*gro Y Nick Odell themusicworkshop%ntlworld*moc Y John Dean john%jdean62*fsnet*oc*ku N Roy Ellor r*ellor%btclick*moc Y Peter Smyth psmyth%gmx*ten Y Dave Mason xumtsfu%sarnie*gro*ku N Graham Drabble graham*drabble%lineone*ten Y kat kat*news%ntlworld*moc A Thomas Lee tfl%psp*oc*ku Y - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Votetakers Comments: A straightforward, uncomplicated vote. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@usenet.org.uk - --------------------------------------------------------------------- PROPOSAL That the newsgroup uk.media.tv.six-feet-under be rmgrouped. =================================================================== RATIONALE According to in the 12 months to the end of May 2004 there wer 43 posts to uk.org.ukuug. These were broken down as follows There were 3 articles in June There were 4 articles in July There were 14 articles in August There were 0 articles in September There were 2 articles in October There were 3 articles in November There were 0 articles in December There were 0 articles in January There were 3 articles in February There were 3 articles in March There were 8 articles in April There were 3 articles in May A Google search for the period 1st June 2003 to 31st May 2004 shows 21 threads in the period of which 6 might be on topic, 1 relates to US screenings of the show, and 9 are spam/viruses. =================================================================== PROPONENT'S SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION There wasn't much of a discussion about the proposal (a total of 8 posts, one of which was from Control) with only one person suggesting the group should be spared to see if it picked up again when the new series was broadcast in the UK, and the remainder being in agreement with the removal, based on the posting stats. =================================================================== NEWSGROUPS LINE uk.media.tv.six-feet-under Discussion of "Six Feet Under" in the UK =================================================================== - -- David Mahon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG-v1.2.4-(GNU/Linux) Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBQRXhkWOfGXkh8vHZAQGVQQP/eSlOUVReDDRZ436SbtwdFesCh2Vt5QDa 2UXGk4W7QGCjGRviPGZ3ECqD3mKDQyl763KS0HNaclzYL/pR32/kEilIgbj8DwRU VtnmEJsId25q9eW4/gnlo4jZl3D7hxVBLl1nb2Xqs2AhQvs1a05TtslghXwWqMCw 6kIwWUZp4OM= =Ncyw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----