From: thester@nyx.cs.du.edu (Uncle Fester)
Subject: The Binary Vote So Far.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 13:12:39 GMT


	These are the results of the vote to create a
	separate binaries newsgroup for the Atari
	8-bit so far.  Rather disappointing.
	
	YES votes --->34 (35 counting me)
	 NO votes ---> 2

	So it appears we don't have the needed 100.
	
	Due to a mail 'futz' here at Nyx, I lost my
	file that kept track of who I had replied to.
	Below is a list of all the people that sent
	their votes to me by email.  (There was one
	vote that was posted here.)
	If your name (email address) is not below,
	and you _did_ send it to me, then something
	happened.  (Nyx probably happened).  If you
	are not on the list, send your vote again.
	(some sites passed my email address with a
	typo for some reason. The correct version
	is:  thester@nyx.cs.du.edu
	If you have not voted on this, please go
	ahead and send your vote to me also.
	I don't consider this over until at least 
	next Friday, September 11.

	{I have more to say after the list --
	 don't leave just yet.}

 	Jody Lenn (lenn@mentor.cc.purdue.edu)
	Jeff McWilliams (jjmcwill@mtus5.cts.mtu.edu)
	Samuel Patton (patton@CS.ColoState.EDU)
	Bob Hardy (hardy%acid-rain@lucid.com)
	Eric Lundquist (eric@ocean.washington.edu)
	(DUNHAM_JERRY@tandem.com)
	(tgreen@iastate.edu)
	Ryan 'Goz' Collings (RCOLLINS@MIAVX1.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU)
	Mike Todd (snyder10@convex1.TCS.Tulane.EDU)
	Robert A. Pickering Jr. (RAPICKERING@MIAVX1.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU)
	Anthony Bufort (bufort@remus.rutgers.edu)
	Lance Tatman (terapin!tatmanl@netcom.com)
	(JCSCHINKER@MIAVX1.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU)
	Jim Johnson (Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US)
	neb!jim (uplherc.upl.com!neb!jim)
	Joseph Sabatino (ab588@yfn.ysu.edu)
	Jeff Stolte (jss@stanley.nde.swri.edu)
	Fredrik Lundholm (d1dol@dtek.chalmers.se)
	(AKH104@PSUVM.PSU.EDU)
	Detlef Johannsen (dinadan@mcshh.hanse.de)
	BarryB (n8846069@henson.cc.wwu.edu)
	(d87-psk@nada.kth.se)
	(chase@physics.rutgers.edu)
	Itay Chamie1 (bruck@brachot.jct.ac.il)
	Ben Poehland (poehland%phvax.dnet@smithkline.com)
	Garold Redenbaugh (garold@cbnewsk.att.com)
	Marek Tomczyk (@vm.gmd.de:UJ1G@DKAUNI2.BITNET)
	Duane Tribe (tribe@ted.cs.uidaho.edu)
	Nick DiMasi (balr!vpnet!nickd@clout.chi.il.us)
	Mike Jewison (@aurora.physics.utoronto.ca:jewison@physics.utoronto.ca.)
	Michael Current (aa700@slc8.INS.CWRU.Edu)
	Null Cypher (swoodwar@nike.calpoly.edu)
	Bill Kendrick (cyberden!phbill@moon.nbn.com)
	(2PEREIRA_F@spcvxa.spc.edu)
	Michael Hill (hill@spot.Colorado.EDU)
	Charles Berlinguette (charles.berlinguette@outlan.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca)
	***End***

	If you noticed, I didn't include who voted what. (yes or no)
	I felt that with only two "NO" votes, I shouldn't put them on
	the 'spot'.  	
	I can at least say, this has been interesting.  According to
	_ONLINE ACCESS_ magazine, there are over 3 million users world-
	wide on the InterNet.  37 of us are fans of the Atari 8-bit
	computer.  (At least one of those 37 doesn't have his Atari
	equipment anymore-but remains (from what I have read here)
	active and very helpful to the rest of us.  That's loyalty of
	a very special kind.    
	I am continually surprised at what both the Atari computer and
	the *Atari user* can accomplish.  We have kept this little
	'magic box' kicking since its inception in 1979.  It has a
	worldwide group of diehards that won't give in to the notion
	of obsolescense.  Almost daily (so it seems) you can read here
	of new ideas and techniques for stretching the Atari far beyond
	the limits of what the original designers thought possible.
	So what am I getting at, you ask?  Just that even though this
	little pocket of 37 (or more) Atari fans may seem miniscule,
	we are really limitless if you look at it from the standpoint
	of spirit.  So what if we don't number one hundred on the net!
	We are a unique group of people the way I see it.  And the 
	friendliest, if the comments that came attached to the votes 
	are any indication.
	Before I tread on the edge of nauseating all of you with my
	maudlin ramblings, let me quit by saying thanks for 
	participating in this endeavor to improve our lot by voting
	to create a binaries group.  It appears that those of you
	that, in effect said, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" were
	right.  Perhaps those 'lost wares' will still show up if we
	allow posting uuencoded files here in comp.sys.atari.8bit.
	All we have to do now, is agree upon the etiquette and protocol
	needed so that the binary posts can co-exist here with as little
	friction possible.
	But - I still want to hear from any stray votes out there by
	next Friday as I said at the top.  I don't think we'll hit
	the magic 100, but we can hope can't we?

	Uncle (keep it short next time) Fester
	

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