22 Mar 2004: Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.rec.gardening.allotments
From: Pedt Scragg <xurga-query@dontspame.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:45:08 +0000
Subject: RESULT : Create uk.rec.gardening.allotments FAILS 12:26
Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.rec.gardening
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RESULT OF CALL FOR VOTES
Summary: Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.rec.gardening.allotments
Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.rec.gardening.allotments FAILS 12:26
NO beat YES by 14 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, 16th March 2004.
Proponent : Gary Poston <gary (at) torbay.eclipse.co.uk>
Votetaker : Pedt Scragg <xurga-query (at) dontspame.com>
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Distribution:
uk.net.news.announce
uk.net.news.config
uk.rec.gardening
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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
61 emails were received at the ballot request address:
52 : Ballot requests
6 : Viruses/worms
1 : Query from a voter
1 : Test by the votetaker
1 : Test by a voter (see Votetaker comments)
56 emails were received at the vote submission address:
38 : Valid votes
2 : Votes later resubmitted (see Votetaker comments)
1 : Valid vote superseded by a later vote
1 : Invalid vote (see Votetaker comments)
13 : Votetaker queries and subsequent correspondence
1 : Test by the Votetaker
20 emails were received at the vote query address:
18 : Queries and subsequent correspondence
2 : Junk/viruses/worms.
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RESULTS:
Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.rec.gardening.allotments
YES : 12 votes
NO : 26 votes
Total : 38 votes
NO beat YES by 14 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 - 12 votes
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Chris Norton chris@norton?zetnet@co@uk YES
Dan Keeley dan?dankeeley@co@uk YES
Dangerous sjalldred?tiscali@co@uk YES
David Uri daviduri?bigfoot@com YES
Graham Carr gpcarr?ntlworld@com YES
Martin Sykes martin?sykesm@globalnet@co@uk YES
Melanie McCluskey melanie-mccluskey?tesco@net YES
Neil Ellwood carl@ellwood2?btinternet@com YES
Robert mail?burnley27@fsnet@co@uk YES
Shazzbat shservices?shservices@fsnet@co@uk YES
The Barsteward thebarsteward?freeuk@com YES
Whingin' Pom whinginpom?donotreply@com YES
Voted No - 26 votes
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Alan R Williams alanrw?cs@man@ac@uk NO
Bazza bazzas?btinternet@com NO
Chris French ngvote?familyfrench@co@uk NO
Dave Mason xurga?sarnie@org@uk NO
David WE. Roberts wibble?talk21@com NO
Derek Turner frderek?cesmail@com NO
Franz Heymann franz@heyman?btopenworld@com NO
Jane jane?moonrose@demon@co@uk NO
Janet Baraclough janet@and@john?zetnet@co@uk NO
John Rye jrye?ukonline@co@uk NO
Jon Rouse jon?timewarp@demon@co@uk NO
Jon Smith basketballjones?lycos@co@uk NO
Martinp martinp?wanadoo@nl NO
Max Wright maxwright?wys-systems@demon#co#uk NO
Neil Jones Neil@Jones?t-mi@com NO
Pete Fenelon pete?fenelon@com NO
Peter Smyth psmyth?ukf@net NO
Rhiannon S mddestiny?aol@com NO
Richard Ashton {R}?semolina@org NO
Robert Harvey bobharvey?europe@com NO
RogerH rogerh?clara@co@uk NO
Sally Thompson sally@thompson?btinternet@com NO
Stephen Gower socks-netnews?earth@li NO
Stuart Baldwin stuart?boxatrix@co@uk NO
Tony Anson horrid@squeak?zetnet@co@uk NO
Wm tcnw61?tarrcity@demon@co@uk NO
Invalid - 1 vote
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Mike Harvey harveytm?lineone@net
(See Votetaker comments)
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Votetaker Comments:
Very straightforward to count the vote as nearly all voters followed the
instructions in the Ballot Paper and queries by the votetaker were, with
one exception, answered quickly and helpfully by the voter. Thank you.
The vote was a little less straightforward in other respects. A few
voters suffered email delays after Ballot Papers or Acknowledgements
were issued and generated some of the correspondence noted in the
summary - one voter being unfortunate enough to suffer delays to both.
The test ballot request, noted under email received, was due to a voter
asking someone to see if the ballot request address was working, rather
than contacting the Votetaker, after a Ballot Paper was requested to a
spamtrapped address. Voters are reminded that you need to use a working
email address for the reply to receive Ballot Papers or if contacting
the Votetaker.
Two ballot papers were requested to be resubmitted for technical
reasons. Both voters submitted valid votes at the 2nd attempt.
Invalid vote: The one exception mentioned in the initial paragraph of
these comments was "Mike Harvey" who failed to make any reply to a query
by the Votetaker. There was no alternative other than to disallow the
vote.
The Votetaker was pleasantly surprised that the email address for this
vote remained remarkably junk and virus/worm free.
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This vote was conducted by a neutral third party member of UKVoting.
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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:
<http://www.usenet.org.uk/voting.html>
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:
I have searched to find many allotment web sites and found that if
this group was opened it would allow all allotment (and would be)
allotment holders to to exchange views in one convenient place.
This in turn would give valued exchange of views by every visitor.
To also pick up tips and sometimes tricks into allotment gardening.
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NEWSGROUPS LINE
uk.rec.gardening.allotments Allotments holders group
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PROPOSED CHARTER: uk.rec.gardening.allotments
To discuss allotment issues, planting times, tips on gardening, pest
controls and general allotment posts.
Advertising
Advertising is forbidden
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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>.
Warning. Anyone posting contrary to this charter may be reported to
their "postmaster" and/or Service Provider.
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