From: les@sail.stanford.edu (Les Earnest)
Subject: CFV: rec.bicycles reorganization
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:26:07 GMT

This is a call for votes on a proposal to create up to five new
unmoderated newsgroups and to rename a sixth as follows:

rec.bicycles.marketplace: Bicycles, components, ancillary equipment and
services wanted or for sale, reviews of such things, places to buy
them, and evaluations of these sources.  Not for discussion of general
engineering, maintenance, or repair -- see rec.bicycles.tech.

rec.bicycles.tech: Techniques of engineering, construction, maintenance
and repair of bicycles and ancillary equipment.  Not for products or
services offered or wanted -- see rec.bicycles.marketplace.

rec.bicycles.rides: Discussions of tours and training or commuting routes.
Not for disussion of general riding techniques -- see rec.bicycles.misc.

rec.bicycles.soc: Social issues, cycling transportation advocacy, laws,
conduct of riders and drivers; road hazards such as potholes, dogs, and
sociopaths.

rec.bicycles.racing: Race results, racing techniques, rules, and
organizations.  Not racing equipment -- see rec.bicycles.marketplace
or rec.bicycles.tech.

It is further proposed that the existing rec.bicycles be renamed and
redefined as follows.
rec.bicycle.misc:  General riding techniques, rider physiology,
injuries and treatment, diets, and other cycling topics.

The voting period will be through August 11.  This notice will be
reposted two more times in this period as a reminder.  You may vote
either for or against the creation of each of the above newgroups
individually or the entire proposal.  To vote for or against the
entire proposal send email to (respectively):

  all-yes@sail.stanford.edu   or   all-no@sail.stanford.edu

The message text must be explicit; for these two cases it should be of
the form "I vote in favor of the entire rec.bicycles reorganization as
proposed" or "I vote against the entire rec.bicycles reorganization
as proposed".  The wording doesn't have to be exact, it just needs to
be unambiguous.  In particular, statements of the form "I would vote
for this if..." will be considered to be comments only and will not be
counted as votes.

Alternatively, to vote for or against individual newsgroups, send
email to mixed@sail.stanford.edu with the message showing individual
"yes" or "no" votes for any or all of the following.

				Vote
rec.bicycles.marketplace	
rec.bicycles.tech		
rec.bicycles.rides		
rec.bicycles.soc		
rec.bicycles.racing		
rec.bicycles.misc		

Only votes emailed to one of the above three addresses will count.
Votes posted to the net for any reason, including inability to get
mail to the vote-taker, and proxy votes, such as having a mailing list
maintainer claim a vote for each member of the list, will not be
counted.

Each person should vote just once either for or against the entire
proposal or for or against individual groups and should not use more
than one computer account in doing so.  If you vote both for and
against the same newsgroup your vote will not be counted for that
group.

			      Results

Shortly after the completion of the voting period, the vote tally and
the E-mail addresses and (if available) names of the voters will be
posted on rec.bicycles, news.announce.newgroups, and news.groups.  The
tally will include a detailed listing of how each person voted so that
the results can be verified.

After the voting results appear there will be a 5 day waiting period
during which readers will have a chance to correct any errors in the
voting lists or the voting procedure.

In accordance with Usenet guidelines, after the waiting period, and if
there are no serious objections that might invalidate the vote, and
if 100 more valid YES/create votes are received for a given proposed
newsgroup than NO/don't create AND at least 2/3 of the total number of
valid votes received are in favor of creation, those groups that pass
will be created.  If the 100 vote margin or 2/3 majority is not met
for any given group it not be created.

	Les Earnest (Les@cs.stanford.edu)
        Bruce Hildenbrand (Bruce.Hildenbrand@eng.sun.com)
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