From: exukev@exu.ericsson.se (Kevin Autrey)
Newsgroups: soc.motss,soc.bi
Subject: Soc.motss Reorganization - Proposal Collection/Voting Procedure
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:23:08 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems
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<< Proposal for Collecting Proposals for the Soc.Motss Reorganization >>

I want to see this Effort At Housecleaning continue with momentum,
so I'd like to suggest the following:

For a period of TWO weeks (starting today and ending Jan 7, 1993) send
your proposals for a new hierarchy for what is currently soc.motss to
me (exukev@exu.ericsson.se), outlining the following:

- The full name of each proposed sub-group in the new hierarchy

- The type of discussions to be conducted in each sub-group

- Whether each subgroup is to be moderated, un-moderated, 
  or auto-moderated to remove cross-postings

- A short description/rationale/defense of the hierarchy
  naming scheme you propose.

- If you want your name removed from the proposal suggestion (to
  preserve muffinhood/anonymity), then please state such in your
  proposal message.  It will be honored.

Your proposal WILL be acknowledged when received.  If you don't
get an acknowledgement (taking into account that I am taking off
12/24-12/27 and 12/31-1/3), then resubmit your proposal.

You may submit more than one proposal - if you have several good
ideas at a new hierarchy.

At the end of two weeks, I will compile a summary message(s) listing
ALL of the submitted proposals, in their entirety, along with an
identifying Proposal Number.  These proposal summary posts will be
repeated several times to make sure everyone gets a chance to see
them.

If you want soc.motss to remain unchanged, then a proposal should
be sent along those lines with your reasoning.  Only submitted 
proposals will be included in the proposal summary posts.

I will also begin collecting votes from the soc.motss/soc.bi
readership on which proposal is best/most-popular.  Only one vote per
person (your last vote, if you cast multiple votes, will be the
deciding vote).  Details and format of the voting "form" and
net-address to which the voting form should be sent will be posted
with the proposal summary posts.

At the end of the two week voting period, I will post the results
of the vote, and the necessary Call For Discussion posts can be
distributed throughout the known net.world.

The proposal posts should NOT be cross-posted to anyplace outside of
the soc.motss/soc.bi newsgroups - we don't need a lot of outside noise
on this portion of the discussion - we'll get plenty of that when the
Call For Discussion message is sent out.

To summarize our time-schedule:

12/23/92-1/7/93 : Proposal submissions to exukev@exu.ericsson.se
1/8/93          : Proposal summary will be posted to the net
1/8/93-1/22/93  : Voting on proposals will commence
1/23/93         : Results of vote will be posted
1/24/93         : Call For Discussion posted around the net

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