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Xref: bloom-picayune.mit.edu news.announce.newgroups:2783 news.groups:62110 news.answers:4424 Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!paperboy.osf.org!hsdndev!purdue!haven.umd.edu!uunet!bounce-back From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,news.answers Subject: 2nd CFV and VOTE ACK: *.answers moderated newsgroups Message-ID: <1fofrgINNjp6@news.UU.NET> Date: 4 Dec 92 20:42:23 GMT Sender: tale@news.UU.NET Reply-To: mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu Followup-To: poster Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 394 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu, tale@uunet.uu.net NNTP-Posting-Host: news.uu.net Archive-name: news-answers/administrivia This is a repeat call for votes and a mass vote acknowledgement for the vote to create new *.answers newsgroups. The first section below is a copy of the original CFV text. The second section is a list of people whose votes have been received so far. ************************* What the vote is about This is a CALL FOR VOTES on the proposal to create the following moderated newsgroups: comp.answers misc.answers rec.answers sci.answers soc.answers talk.answers The charters of these newsgroups will be identical to the charter of news.answers, with the addition that each of these newsgroups will contain only periodic informational postings that are also posted to other newsgroups in the same hierarchy (e.g., the "comp.answers" newsgroups would contain only postings that appear in at least one other "comp" newsgroup). The charter of news.answers, from the "Introduction to the news.answers newsgroup" posting, is as follows: > What is news.answers? > > The news.answers newsgroup serves as a repository in which periodic >informational postings (a.k.a "Frequently Asked Questions" postings, >or "FAQs") from other newsgroups are posted. > > Although it's difficult to say exactly what qualifies as an FAQ that >belongs in news.answers, the basic description is, "any posting which >answers common questions and is meant to be read by humans beings." >Furthermore, FAQs cross-posted in news.answers should have meaningful >subject lines. For example, an FAQ for rec.chess should have a >subject line saying something like "chess Frequently Asked Questions >(FAQ)," rather than just "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)." > > For example, the comp.unix.questions "Frequently Asked Questions >about Unix - with Answers [Monthly posting]" and the >news.announce.newusers "Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on >Netiquette" belong in news.answers, as does the README file from >comp.mail.maps. However, the comp.mail.maps map postings and the >readership statistics from news.lists do not. > > FAQ postings from any hierarchy that travels using "USENET >mechanisms" can be cross-posted to news.answers (i.e. news.answers is >not limited to postings from the comp, sci, misc, soc, talk, news and >rec hierarchies). If an FAQ maintainer feels that his (and I mean >that "his" in a completely politically correct, gender-neutral way, so >don't bother complaining about it) posting is of interest only to >people in its home hierarchy, then he can (try to) restrict the >distribution of the FAQ using the Distribution mechanism; if he feels >that it is of more general interest, he can avoid any Distribution >restrictions, in which case the FAQ might receive a wider distribution >that most postings in the hierarchy. This is a pretty reasonable >thing, considering that FAQs are often considered the "distilled >wisdom" of a newsgroup or group of newsgroups, so a single FAQ from a >hierarchy might be of wider interest than the hierarchy as a whole. > > Where there is an ambiguity, I will decide whether or not a posting >belongs in the newsgroup. > > There are several reasons why this newsgroup exists. They include: > >* It is easier for site administrators to keep FAQs around for a long > time if they are all cross-posted to one newsgroup.... > Administrators can make the maximum expire time for news.answers > very long, instead of making every newsgroup with FAQs in it have a > long maximum expire time. > >* It is easier for sites that archive FAQs to generate their archives, > since they will need to watch just one newsgroup rather than > scanning the entire news spool. > >* It provides a "quick reference" for users, in several different > respects. Users who want to browse through the various FAQs that > the USENET has to offer can do so in just one newsgroup. Users who > want to find an FAQ from a particular newsgroup but don't know its > subject can search for that newsgroup in the headers of the articles > in news.answers. > >* Software for retrieving FAQs can also be simplified to use > news.answers as the basis for FAQ searches. These newsgroups are being proposed in order to make it easier for users to choose which FAQs they will and will not read, and to make it easier for administrators to choose which FAQs will be fed to their sites and which will not. Initially, these newsgroups will be moderated by the moderator of news.answers (i.e., by me). Eventually, I hope to find others to moderate some of the newsgroups -- I will develop a mechanism for the multiple moderators working together to keep the *.answers newsgroups consistent while dividing the labor between them. Note that news.answers will continue to exist in its current form, i.e, ALL PERIODIC POSTINGS WILL CONTINUE TO APPEAR IN NEWS.ANSWERS, even the ones that are cross-posted to other *.answers newsgroups as well. In addition to the newsgroups being voted on here, other *.answers newsgroups will probably be created in some alternative and regional hierarchies (for example, alt.answers). However, those groups are not being considered here because new groups in other hierarchies are not created using the guidelines under which this vote is being held. How to vote In order to vote for or against this newsgroup, you must send a mail message to the address mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu (if you reply via mail to this message, your mail will be directed to that address). If your site does not understand that address, you might try: mail-server%pit-manager.mit.edu@athena.mit.edu mit-athena!pit-manager.mit.edu!mail-server uunet!pit-manager.mit.edu!mail-server If none of these addresses works, talk to someone at your site who can help you address the mail properly. Posted votes will not be counted. Votes mailed to the poster of this message will not be counted. Your mail should contain in its body one line for each vote you want to cast. The line should be in the format "vote newsgroup myvote", where "newsgroup" is the name of the newsgroup for which you are voting and "myvote" is either "yes", "no" or "abstain". To vote easily, you can cut-and-paste the following lines and replace the string MYVOTE at the end of each with the vote you want to cast: vote comp.answers MYVOTE vote misc.answers MYVOTE vote rec.answers MYVOTE vote sci.answers MYVOTE vote soc.answers MYVOTE vote talk.answers MYVOTE A vote of "yes" indicates approval of the newsgroup. A vote of "no" indicates opposition to it. A vote of "abstain" cancels any previous vote for or against it. Multiple votes from the same person should be sent from the same address, although they do not have to be sent in one E-mail message. If multiple votes for a particular group are received from the same person, the last vote received for that group is the only one counted. You should receive a response to your vote, acknowledging its receipt, within two days. If you do not, or if you have some other problem with voting, you can get help by sending mail to postmaster@pit-manager.mit.edu. When to vote Votes received between the date in the header of this message and Sat Dec 20 23:59:59 GMT 1992 will be counted. At least one mass acknowledgement and repeat call for votes will be posted during the voting period. ************************* The following is a list of people for whom votes have been received as of 10PM GMT on December 2. On the left of each line is the address from which votes were received, and on the right is a series of dots indicating which votes. talk.answers------+ soc.answers------+| sci.answers-----+|| rec.answers----+||| misc.answers--+|||| comp.answers-+||||| vvvvvv a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) .. . adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) ...... al@cs.brown.edu (Andre Lehovich) ...... alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)...... alanb@vexcel.com (Alan Baxter) ...... allan@sunk.hc.ti.com (Allan Poindexter) ...... Anders.Hallberg@eua.ericsson.se (Anders Hallberg) ...... andy@homebase.vistachrome.com ...... Gary Ansok <ansok@STSCI.EDU> ...... anson@akb.in-berlin.de ...... archer@frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Vincent Archer) ...... Arne Henrik Juul <arnej@kari.fm.unit.no> ...... arromdee@blaze.cs.jhu.edu ...... <aultj@rpi.edu> ...... aw1@stade.co.uk ...... Tony Zamora <azamora@cs.indiana.edu> ...... babe39@se01.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button) ...... bac@netcom.com (Brian Court) ...... baffa@arcetri.astro.it (Carlo Baffa) ...... baldwin@csservera.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin) ...... bc338569@longs.lance.colostate.edu ...... Bengt Larsson <bengtl@maths.lth.se> ...... bharat@cs.uiuc.edu ...... BIRMINGH@FNAL.FNAL.GOV (Better than a sharp stick in the eye.) ...... brian@grot.starconn.com (Brian Smithson) ...... Bruce.Feist@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Bruce Feist) .... Bryan Cardoza <Bryan_Cardoza@Novell.COM> ...... bush@purcell.physics.upenn.edu (Judith Bush) ...... Alexander EICHENER <C96@vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de> ...... Carl <carlj@cyclone.bt.co.uk> ...... carlton@husc.harvard.edu ...... Charles Shub <cdash@moet.cs.colorado.edu> ...... Chaw@cs.stanford.edu (Sudarshan S. Chawathe) ...... chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) ...... Chris Johnston <chris@cs.uchicago.edu> ...... Christophe Wolfhugel <Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr> ...... Christopher Davis <ckd@eff.org> ...... Clive Newall <clive@asis.unimelb.EDU.AU> ...... Chris Marble <CMARBLE@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU> ...... "Ofer Inbar" <cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> ...... coulman@skdad.usask.ca (Randy Coulman) ...... cuz@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu ...... cwes1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Clare West) ...... d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) ...... dacosta@prl.philips.nl (Paulo da Costa 42147) ...... dawn@ca.dynix.com (Dawn Whiteside) ...... devon!paul@vax.cs.pitt.edu ...... dflowers@caltech.edu . ... dob@inel.gov (Dave Brooks) ...... dosborn@sis.usc.edu (Doug Osborn) .. . eastick@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Doug Eastick) ...... eduardo.rodriguez@dcc.uchile.cl (Eduardo Rodriguez) ...... emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) ...... Ephraim Vishniac <ephraim@Think.COM> ...... Greg Franklin <F67700241@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU> ...... David John Kunz <farif@halcyon.halcyon.com> ...... William C Fenner <fenner@cs.psu.edu> ...... follick@jemez.eece.unm.edu ...... frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca ...... frederic@safe.ia.gov (^ILeon Frederick - DSB^I) ... Geoff Allen <geoff@pmafire.inel.gov> . .. gibbsm@ll.mit.edu (MargAret D. Gibbs) ...... gjb@bullit.void.oz.au (Greg Black) .. . Gerben 'P' Vos <gpvos@cs.vu.nl> ...... grabiner@math.harvard.edu ...... graham@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham) ...... gregf@tfs.COM (Greg Faulk) ...... grether@cvtserv1.verfahrenstechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Bernd Grether (sorescu))...... gritton@byu.edu ...... heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) ...... heiko@groucho.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Heiko Schlichting) ...... heinau@groucho.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Vera Heinau) ...... B.J. 19-Nov-1992 1750 <herbison@erlang.enet.dec.com> ...... Herve.Schauer@ensta.fr (Herve Schauer) ...... huff@MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU (Edward J. Huff) ...... ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor) ...... Ian Rogers <ianr@cogs.sussex.ac.uk> ...... irilyth@FENRIS.CLAREMONT.EDU (Josh Smith) ...... Irving_Wolfe <Irving_Wolfe@happy-man.com> ...... iwj@cam-orl.co.uk (Ian Jackson) ...... J Lee Jaap <J.L.Jaap@larc.nasa.gov> ...... jamesm@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Mark James) ...... bagend!jan@gatech.edu (Jan Isley) ...... John Bartol <jbart@jbartol.zadall> ...... jbettis@cse.unl.edu (jeremy bettis) .... . Juergen Christoffel <jc@slim.gmd.de> ...... John DiMarco <jdd@cdf.toronto.edu> ...... jduncan@jupiter.nmt.edu (John Duncan) ...... jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat) ...... jh@nbn.com (John Harkin) ...... jhawk@panix.com (John Hawkinson) .... "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU> ...... James Mathiesen <JIM@BROWNVM.brown.edu> ...... jjf@dsbc.icl.co.uk (J J Farrell) ...... Jay Maynard <jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu> ...... jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) ...... <joel@postgres.berkeley.edu> ...... Johann.Tonsing@ee.up.ac.za ...... john@iastate.edu ...... Lord Yak Da Hairy <johny@cogs.sussex.ac.uk> ...... Jonathan Gowland <jonog@g2syd.genasys.com.au> ...... jra@barracuda.wti.com (Jim Atkinson) ...... jrb4599@usl.edu (Blackwell James R) ..... kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski) ...... "Neeran M. Karnik" <karnik@cs.umn.edu> ...... karsten@tfl.dk ...... Kelly Derek Deyoe <kdeyoe+@cmu.edu> ...... echelon!kees@relay.nluug.nl (Kees Hendrikse) ...... kmc@netcom.com (Kevin McCarty) ... .. konrad@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Bill Konrad) ...... Karleenus Schwartz Davis <ksdavis@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> ...... leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl ...... lhdsy1!lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com!shc@uunet.UU.NET ...... linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) ...... Lisa Bjarke <lisa@wilbur.dfrf.nasa.gov> ...... lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) ...... Danny Schwendener <macman@bernina.ethz.ch> ...... Magnus Olsson <magnus@thep.lu.se> ...... Jeff Makey <makey@VisiCom.COM> ...... Marc.Desrochers@BRI.NRC.CA ...... markus@mwhh.hanse.de (Markus Witt) ...... marthag@athena.mit.edu ...... matwood@labhp13.cs.utah.edu (Mark Atwood) ...... mbm@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Malcolm Mladenovic) ...... Dan McDonald <MCDONALD@dallas.sil.org> ...... mcgregoa@COGNOS.COM (Alayne McGregor) ...... Martha Gunnarson <mg@wpi.edu> .. ... mgfrank@avernus.com (Marc G. Frank) ...... Magnus Holmberg <mho@stacken.kth.se> ...... mhpower@Athena.MIT.EDU ...... Michael.Shields@p1638.f349.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Michael Shields) ...... Martin Merry <mjm@hplb.hpl.hp.com> ...... Michael Quinn <MJQUINNUCC.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu> ...... mmt@RedBrick.COM (Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS) ...... Monty Solomon <monty@proponent.com> ...... mphbj639@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu (Stephen Cristol) ...... muir@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (David Muir Sharnoff) ...... Melissa Wauford <mwauford@UTKUX1.UTK.EDU> ...... Helge Nareid <nareid@due.unit.no> ...... neilb@scs.leeds.ac.uk ...... Ommund Oegaard <oegaard@itk.unit.no> ...... "M. Otto" <OTTO@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> ...... Peter Craig <P.S.Craig@durham.ac.uk> ...... pa@appmag.com (Pierre Asselin) ...... pae@stortek.com (Phil Earnhardt) ...... Paul Wells <pfw@wellserv.gwinnett.COM> ...... Phil.Richards@prg.ox.ac.uk ...... phoffman@holonet.net (Paul E. Hoffman) ...... pierre@kaboom.PRPA.Philips.COM (Pierre Uszynski) ...... prc <prc@gec-mrc.co.uk> ...... Paul W Schleck KD3FU <pschleck@cwis.unomaha.edu> ...... Pirawat Watanapongse <pw@cacs.usl.edu> ...... Joshua Randall <randall-joshua@YALE.EDU> ...... ron c carman <rccarm00@mik.uky.edu> ...... red@uhura.neoucom.EDU (Richard E. Depew) ...... rei2!fox@uunet.uu.net ...... rhb@mstr.hgc.edu (Roger H. Brown) ...... rich@boreas.whoi.edu (Richard Pawlowicz) ...... Richard.Mathews@West.Sun.COM (Richard M. Mathews) ...... rick@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller) ...... rissa@world.std.com (Patricia O Tuama) ...... rnichols@ihlpm.att.com (Robert K Nichols) . roder@cco.caltech.edu (Brenda J. Roder) ...... roger@prosun.first.gmd.de (Roger Holst) ...... romero@stat.tamu.edu (Ron Romero) ...... Eric Rossing <rossing@cs.hope.edu> ...... rowan@rigel.EPM.ORNL.GOV (Tom Rowan) ...... rrl@oclc.org (Ralph Levan) ...... rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec) ...... rthomson@dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson) ...... rtw@mtuxj.att.com ...... rv@cs.brown.edu (rodrigo vanegas) ...... rwhitby@research.canon.oz.au (Rod Whitby) ...... Sam.Falkner@Central.Sun.COM (Sam Falkner) ...... sarel@ford.ee.up.ac.za (Sarel Lugtenburg) ...... sartin@88OPEN.ORG ...... Saul Tannenbaum <SAUL_SY@hnrc.tufts.edu> ...... scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller) ...... shrdlu@willow.sdd.trw.com (Lynda L. True) ...... simona@panix.com (Simona Nass) ...... sjsmith@cs.UMD.EDU (Stephen Joseph Smith) ...... Seth the Lesser <slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu> ...... Jason Hunsaker <SLHW4@CC.USU.EDU> ...... slootman@evs2.uia.ac.be (Wim Slootmans) . .. Marc Moorcroft <smarry@zooid.guild.org> . . . sp0mikpa@edit.his.se (Mikael Parknert) ...... sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman) ...... srogers@tad.eds.com (Steve Rogers) ...... Stefan Linnemann <Stefan.Linnemann@cri.leidenuniv.nl> ...... Stephan Niemz <stephan@sunlab.ka.sub.org> ...... Stephen Hebditch <steveh@orbital.demon.co.uk> ...... stu@valinor.mythical.com (Stu Labovitz) ...... tam@pythia.itkp.uni-bonn.de ...... Morten Tandle <tandle@pvv.unit.no> ...... tim@animal.gcs.co.nz (Tim Frost) ...... Timothy VanFosson <timv@ccad.uiowa.edu> ...... tjn@iastate.edu ...... tom_limoncelli@Warren.MENTORG.COM ...... tony@microware.co.uk (Tony Mountifield) ...... tonyd@ssc60.sbwk.nj.us (Tony DeBari) ...... "Tony (T.) Rice" <trice@bnr.ca> ...... Tim Pierce <twpierce@unix.amherst.edu> ...... UHAH013@VAX.RHBNC.AC.UK ...... wangc@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Carol Wang) . ... werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) ...... werner@SOE.Berkeley.Edu (John Werner) ...... wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi (Lars Wirzenius) ...... wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) .. wombat@nfinit.enet.dec.com ...... (The Crossjammer) <xjam@cork.CS.Berkeley.EDU> ...... "Yvonne Y. Yang" <yyy2t@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU> ...... -- Jonathan Kamens jik@MIT.Edu MIT Information Systems/Athena Moderator, news.answers