From: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg "Life..." Berigan)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.sys.apple2,comp.binaries.apple2
Subject: CFV: comp.binaries.apple2 moderated
Date: 29 Jul 92 22:16:03 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Megadodo Publications, Light City, Ursa Minor Beta

This is a CALL FOR VOTES on the moderation of the existing newsgroup
comp.binaries.apple2.

   Moderator: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
Co-Moderator: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg "Life..." Berigan)
      Backup: johnp@silver.lcs.mit.edu (John Palaima)
      Backup: stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey)

NEW CHARTER:

 Submissions are to be virus-free Freeware, Shareware or otherwise
 freely-distributable programs which run on any one or more Apple II,
 Apple III, or their compatibles when running in their Apple II
 compatible mode, their data files excluding those which are already
 covered by existing newsgroups' charters, and their documentation.  A
 description of the submission is also required, which must include
 hardware and software requirements of the submission.  If a description
 is absent, and one is not present inside the archive, the submitter will
 be asked to provide one.  If an article is rejected or diverted to
 another group, the poster will be informed accordingly.  An archive will
 not be  approved and posted  until all of its parts have arrived.
 Ideally, submissions should be made in the same format as the approved
 postings, but this is not required, only preferred.

 Repeat submissions of programs will not be posted unless it is a repeat
 of a 6-month-or-older posting.  It is recommended that users consult a
 comp.binaries.apple2 archive site to obtain these programs.  Newer
 versions of postings are not classified as a repeat submission.

 Postings which have forged approval, contain commercial software, or
 contain code designed to cause harm to an unsuspecting user or is
 otherwise a virus, are explicitly improper, and will be cancelled.
 Submissions which are somehow not categorized in the above as proper or
 improper will be decided on a case-by-case basis in open discussion in
 comp.sys.apple2.  Disagreements on the quality or state of being proper
 of a posting should be discussed in comp.sys.apple2.

 Inappropriate submissions which are already covered by existing
 newsgroups' charters will be forwarded to said group, with a message to
 the submitter informing such, such as articles which do not contain a
 binary posting, or source code which would be forwarded to
 comp.sources.apple2.

 The approved posts will have subjects containing keywords identifying
 CPU requirements, the name of the archive's contents, a count of the
 number of postings which make up the complete archive, and a short
 summary of the program, which includes a listing of additional hardware
 and software requirements.  Postings in comp.binaries.apple2 will be
 encoded as BinSCIIed ShrinkIT files, until such (unforseen at this
 writing) time that they are usurped in preference, using the newest
 commonly-available bug-free versions.  Postings will not exceed 1000
 lines per post -- typically 3 BinSCII parts per post -- in order to
 prevent truncation through old net links.  Articles will be given
 unique, sequential article-IDs to help detect forgeries, and will use
 the References: header for the benefit of threaded newsreaders (like
 trn).  In case of extended moderator absence, submissions not checked
 for 5 days after receipt will be automatically approved in their
 submission form, and clearly marked that they had not been checked.
 Postings will be forwarded to the APPLE2-L mailing list as approved, as
 well as archived on an anonymously accessible FTP site.  Old postings
 will also be available on request from the moderator(s).

 LEGAL DISCLAIMER:

 Neither the moderator nor his assistants should be held responsible in
 any way if a virus or commercial program slips through.  The moderator
 and assistants will expend effort to try to ensure this doesn't happen,
 but no guarantees are expressed nor implied that that these efforts will
 be 100% effective.


HOW TO VOTE:

All votes should be sent to the address "gberigan@cse.unl.edu".  Every
received vote will be sent an ACK in response which will include the
text that contains the actual vote and how the vote was received.
Sample vote lines are:

On the moderation of comp.binaries.apple2, I vote YES.
On the moderation of comp.binaries.apple2, I vote NO.
On the moderation of comp.binaries.apple2, I ABSTAIN.

Votes can be in any format, as long as they are clear as to who is
voting, how the person is voting, and what proposal is being voted on.
(Please, do NOT include the entire Call For Votes in your ballot.)
Only one vote per ballot.  In case of multiple ballots from the same
address, only the most recently received vote will be counted.  ABSTAIN
votes have no effect upon success or fail of the proposal other than
removing a previous YES or NO vote from the same voter.

Votes received after August 28th (Central Time) will not be counted.

Periodic reposts of the Call For Votes will be made to news.announce.-
newgroups, news.groups, and comp.sys.apple2.  These will contain a Mass
Voter Acknowledgement, which will list all the addresses from which
votes have been received, categorized only as valid and invalid.  If
your net address does not appear in the list, and you did not receive an
ack, please resend your vote.
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-- gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2