From: kko@sfu.ca (Samuel Ko)
Subject: CFV: comp.archives.msdos.announce and comp.archives.msdos.d
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:26:26 GMT
Reply-To: vote@tacom-emh1.army.mil

This is the official Call For Votes regarding the creation of the
comp.archives.msdos.announce and comp.archives.msdos.d newsgroups.

A. Voting Period
   From: the time this article is posted/circulated
   To:  12:01 am PST, December 7 1992

B. How to vote?
    i) Delete everything in this article except the BALLOT section below.
   ii) Edit the BALLOT section to reflect your voting intention. (i.e. If
       you vote YES for the creation of a newsgroup, you should delete
       the NO alternative and vice versa.)
  iii) Send the BALLOT to the vote-taker at  vote@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil .

** Please read the enclosed information on the proposed newsgroups (in
   section D) before you vote.

-------------------------------- BALLOT ----------------------------------

My vote regarding
  the creation of comp.archives.msdos.announce as proposed is  YES.
  the creation of comp.archives.msdos.announce as proposed is  NO.
*****
My vote regarding 
   the renaming of comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives to
       comp.archives.msdos.d as proposed is  YES.
       comp.archives.msdos.d as proposed is  NO.

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C. Further Information

1) You must state clearly and unambiguously how you want to vote
   regarding EACH proposed newsgroup. If you want to vote for or
   against the creation of one newsgroup only, you only have to mail
   your vote regarding the creation of that newsgroup.

2) Only ballots MAILED to the vote-taker (at vote@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil)
   before the end of the voting period will be counted. And if you send
   more than one ballots to the vote-taker during the voting period,
   only your last ballot will be counted.

D. Information on proposed newsgroups

Proposed newsgroup:  comp.archives.msdos.announce
Type: moderated
Charter:
   This moderated newsgroup is for the upload announcements and
related information from MSDOS FTP sites with PD and shareware
material.  The subjects include the upload announcements via the
MSDOS FTP site moderators, the MSDOS sites' periodical summaries,
potential policy statements and downtime warnings, and the MSDOS FTP
site moderators' reports about the connectivity problems with their
archive sites.  Unix announcements conform only if they directly
relate to transferring or handling the MSDOS material from the MSDOS
FTP sites. 

Moderators: Keith Petersen (principal moderator), Timo Salmi, 
            Harri Valkama, and Brian O'Neill
            Other FTP site moderators are welcome to help in the 
            joint moderation of this proposed newsgroup.

Further clarification:
The purpose of comp.archives.msdos.announce is to be a ONE-WAY
channel for MSDOS upload announcements which the moderators handle,
and other one-way, occasional information relating to MSDOS FTP
sites.  The moderators will therefore not be handling users'
discussion material, questions, and replies.  The unmoderated
comp.archives.msdos.d newsgroup (see below) will cover that aspect. 

Proposed newsgroup:  comp.archives.msdos.d
Type: unmoderated
Charter:
   This unmoderated newsgroup is the discussion subgroup of the
moderated comp.archives.msdos.announce newsgroup.  The newsgroup
covers users' reports, questions and discussions about the PD and
shareware programs at the MSDOS FTP sites, and the users' questions
about the MSDOS FTP sites such as the users' connectivity problem
reports.  The group is also for posting requests/replies concerning
where to find such programs as are stored at the MSDOS FTP sites. 
The newsgroup does not cover any discussions of fully commercial
programs or programs for other operating systems like OS/2.  (These
programs have Usenet newsgroups of their own). 
-- 
Samuel Ko  ... co-ordinating the creation of the
                  comp.archives.msdos.* newsgroups ...
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,rec.music.afro-latin,rec.music.gdead,rec.music.makers,rec.music.misc,rec.music.funky,soc.culture.caribbean,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.african.american