From: alok@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (alok.vijayvargia)
Newsgroups: news.groups,soc.culture.indian.american,soc.culture.indian
Subject: RESULTS of the SCIA Query
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:55:14 GMT
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: AT&T


Results:

The following query was conducted for 27 days on news.groups and alt.native.

>Q.1 Are you a Native American (American INdian) ?

>Q.2 Where did you read the CFV for SCIA ?

>Q.3  Did you vote (YES or NO) under the impression that the proposed group
>(SCIA) was meant for Native Americans (American Indians) ?

This query indicates that only 2 YES votes were casted under the false 
impression that the group was proposed for Native Americans.

These votes are from John Frieman and Jon Rhein.

All NO votes casted were under the correct understanding of the group's
charter. NO votes were casted with a view that the proposed name
would cause confusion (not that they themelves were confused about
what the group was for).Such confusion was present in both the Natives
and the non-Natives.

POsting the CFV on alt.native had only resulted in one additional vote.
This vote (John Frieman) has been deducted since it was casted under false 
impression.

The vote count for the SCIA vote (held between Nov 20 and Dec 12) 
will be further adjusted by 2 . It was adjusted to 191:86 earlier
to account for the 3 duplicate votes. After deduction of 2 more votes from 
the YES side, it now stands at 189:86. 

Please note that the group still has a passing margin. As such the final  
result does not change.


Alok Vijayvargia
(att!probe!alok)

Relevent texts of the query follow:
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From: graham@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham)

>Q.1 Are you a Native American (American INdian) ?
>

No.

>Q.2 Where did you read the CFV for SCIA ?

news.announce.newgroups

>Q.3  Did you vote (YES or NO) under the impression that the proposed group
>(SCIA) was meant for Native Americans (American Indians) ?

I felt soc.culture.indian.american was a poor choice for the name,
and after my arguments were ignored during the RFD, voted No.
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From: John Frieman-Contractor <jaf@hplvec.lvld.hp.com>
1 - Yes
2 - alt.native
3 - Yes & Yes
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From: ammon@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Ammon)

>
>Q.1 Are you a Native American (American INdian) ?

Yes.

>Q.2 Where did you read the CFV for SCIA ?

I don't remember.
 
>Q.3  Did you vote (YES or NO) under the impression that the proposed group
>(SCIA) was meant for Native Americans (American Indians) ?

I voted NO for scia because I thought the name was confusing, and
people would think it was for (Native) American Indians.
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From: mda46419@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael D. Adams)

In news.groups you write:

***Q.1 Are you a Native American (American INdian) ?

Yes

***Q.2 Where did you read the CFV for SCIA ?

either news.groups or news.announce.newgroups

***Q.3  Did you vote (YES or NO) under the impression that the proposed group
***(SCIA) was meant for Native Americans (American Indians) ?
***Also please indicate how you voted.

I voted against the group as named, simply because I thought that there
would be too much confusion about whether the group would be for
discussion of the culture/lives/etc. of Native Americans or or
(Asian) Indian-Americans.  

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From: amaerd@Athena.MIT.EDU
Q1. Yes. I am 100% Dineh.
Q2. No comment. I don't have enough information about CFV. What is CFV?
Q3. No. I read about the confusion on alt.native, not SCIA.

I hope the reply will help. I couldn't answer question 2 momentarily.

Jody
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From: kemnitz@netcom.com (Greg Kemnitz)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)
>
>
>Q.1 Are you a Native American (American INdian) ?

No.

>Q.2 Where did you read the CFV for SCIA ?

Here, I think. (news.groups)

>Q.3  Did you vote (YES or NO) under the impression that the proposed group
>(SCIA) was meant for Native Americans (American Indians) ?

Yes, this is exactly what happened.

>Also please indicate how you voted.

"Yes."



	Note that I am posting from a friend's account.

		Jon
		jon@postgres.berkeley.edu
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