Note: This is _not_ a standard call for votes. Please read it very carefully.
Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 8 August 1994.
This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. For voting
questions only contact rdip...@qualcomm.com. For questions about the
proposed group contact the USA mailing list, u...@byu.edu.
PROPOSAL
The following is a package proposal for creation of a new us.*
hierarchy to deal with subjects and issues peculiar to the residents
and citizens of the United States of America and those who follow
American culture and subjects. Please read the entire packaged
proposal. A poll ballot is appended to the end of the proposal.
The package proposal includes three pieces: A "Welcome to the us.*
hierarchy document" which will be posted monthly to the proposed
us.newsgroups.announce newsgroup, should the hierarchy be created; a
"Procedure for creation of us.* hierarchy newsgroups" document, which
will be the operating procedure should the hierarchy be created, and a
poll ballot.
This proposal was worked out on the USA mailing list, run by Jamie
Gritton of Brigham Young University. The main author of the proposal
is Joel Furr. Extensive advice and suggestions were provided by David
Barr, Jamie Gritton, Mike Grubb, David Lawrence, Ed McGuire, Tim
Pierce, Dave Sill, and J. D. Falk.
What follows, as above, is the proposed "Welcome to the us.*
Hierarchy" article. Please also see the "Procedure for creation of
us.* Hierarchy newsgroups" article, which follows immediately after
the text of the "Welcome..." article.
--article begins--
Welcome to the us.* Hierarchy
INTRODUCTION:
The us.* hierarchy is being re-created. Over a year ago, several
groups in an attempted us.* hierarchy were created with little fanfare
and low propagation. These groups did not achieve wide popular
support due to their lack of support from UUNET and other influential
sites, which either didn't carry them or didn't include them in
publicly available checkgroups messages.
However, there is still a need for a hierarchy of groups dealing with
subjects of interest primarily to Americans. As such, a core group of
newsgroups to re-establish the us. hierarchy is being issued.
At this time, several us.* hierarchy groups from the previous attempt
to create the hierarchy _exist_, but none is received at more than 10%
of sites (according to Arbitron). In order to keep things orderly,
these groups are considered bogus and identified in a regularly
published list by the moderator of us.newsgroups.announce, Dave Sill.
If you carry any pre-existing us.* groups on your system at this time,
you may wish to delete them.
New groups in the us.*. hierarchy will be added after consultation
with an advisory naming committee (the "US Hierarchy Coordinating
Committee") and discussion in a 'us.newsgroups.discuss' newsgroup,
followed by an interest poll, if the proposer chooses to take things
that far. The function of the advisory committee, a group of seven
veteran news administrators and users, is as advisors on names of
groups in order to help come up with good names that keep the us.*
hierarchy well organized and easily usable. Please note that existing
Big 7 and alt.* groups should not be considered prime candidates for
_moving_ to us.*. To keep things orderly, the us.* hierarchy is a
'from this point forward' hierarchy.
PHILOSOPHY AND CHARTER OF US.*:
The us.* hierarchy is intended for discussion of subjects peculiar to
and of interest mainly to Americans and residents of the United States
of America. It is *not* intended as a catch- all hierarchy for all
groups dealing with matters American; a self evident fact of late
20th-century life is that many subjects pertaining to the USA are of
worldwide interest.
However, many subjects that have been proposed for groups in the Big 7
hierarchies (rec, comp, sci, misc, talk, soc, and news) and the alt.*
hierarchy are actually of interest mainly only to Americans: among
these are radio and television shows, entertainment personalities,
some politicians, some political issues, and so forth. These groups
more properly belong in a us.* hierarchy so that those sites which do
not want to receive US-specific traffic, as well as those sites and
readers specifically looking for US-specific traffic, may do so more
easily. Distribution of the us.* hierarchy will not be limited to
sites in the USA, however, so that Americans abroad and others with a
particular interest in the US may follow and participate in the
discussions.
US.* HIERARCHY GROUP CREATION PROCESS:
See the file "Procedure for creation of us.* hierarchy newsgroups,"
posted monthly to us.newsgroups.announce and us.newsgroups.discuss for
more information.
INITIAL GROUPS:
At the start, four us.* hierarchy groups will exist. All other groups
in the hierarchy must be created via interest poll and naming decision
subsequent to the creation of the initial four groups:
us.newsgroups.announce (moderated)
us.newsgroups.discuss
us.misc
us.test
CHARTERS OF THE INITIAL FOUR GROUPS:
us.newsgroups.announce (moderated): This group is moderated by Dave
Sill (d...@ornl.gov) and will contain announcements of new group
proposals, announcements of results of interest polls, announcements
of naming decisions, checkgroups messages for the hierarchy, and other
announcements pertaining to the operation of the us.* hierarchy.
us.newsgroups.discuss: This group is unmoderated and will contain
discussion of new newsgroups proposals.
us.misc: This group is unmoderated and serves as the initial us.*
discussion group. Matters suitable for discussion in us.misc are
anything pertaining to the United States of America, its culture,
people, history, politics, and society.
us.test: This group will be unmoderated. It serves as a place for
users of us.* to post test messages and to check propagation of their
messages.
THE US HIERARCHY COORDINATING COMMITTEE
For purposes of keeping things workable, the Committee is small and
consists of seven veteran news administrators and users:
Dave Sill d...@ornl.gov
Joel Furr jf...@acpub.duke.edu
Jamie Gritton gri...@byu.edu
Mike Grubb m...@cambot.ac.duke.edu
Ed McGuire emcg...@i2.com
David Lawrence ta...@uunet.uu.net
Tim Pierce twpi...@unix.amherst.edu
The committee operates by consensus. The Committee can be reached at
us...@uunet.uu.net, us-newsgroups- anno...@uunet.uu.net, or by
emailing Dave Sill at d...@ornl.gov. No rules for additions to or
deletions from the Committee exist at this time. The Committee feels
that it would be better to wait until the hierarchy exists for a while
so that the lay of the land may be better understood before proposing
a whole system of rules for changes to the Committee, the creation
guidelines, and the structure of the hierarchy.
--article ends--
Next follows the "Procedure" article.
--article begins--
PROCEDURE FOR CREATION OF US.* HIERARCHY NEWSGROUPS:
All groups in the US hierarchy must be proposed via consultation with
the US Hierarchy Coordinating Committee, followed by public discussion
and a public interest poll. This is different from the existing
apparatus used for Big 7 groups for two reasons: 1) if it becomes too
difficult to create groups in the US hierarchy, people will continue
to use alt. or the Big 7 for US-related groups, and, 2) the likelihood
of the hierarchy propagating well and being accepted will hinge in
part on the soundness of the decisions reached about its groups.
Ergo, an advisory committee to address the latter, and simple interest
voting to address the former.
Briefly, this approach is different from that used by other
hierarchies in order to make the US hierarchy responsive to the needs
of a quickly changing net and to give news administrators assurance
that group creation is orderly and planned.
PROCEDURE:
1) All proposals for new newsgroups must be sent to the
us.newsgroups.announce moderator, Dave Sill at d...@ornl.gov or by
submitting to us.newsgroups.announce at us-newsgroups-
anno...@uunet.uu.net. Sill will refer the proposal to the US
Hierarchy Coordinating Committee, who will discuss the proposal with
the submitter, firm up points of the proposal, and come up with a
name.
2) Proposals will then be formally presented in the
us.newsgroups.announce group and discussed for a minimum of two weeks
in us.newsgroups.discuss in order to see if the proposal should be
broadened, narrowed, or changed in focus, whether the group should be
moderated, and if so by whom, and so forth.
3) After at least two weeks have passed, the proposer and the
Coordinating Committee may make changes based on input offered during
the discussion phase and then submit the proposal for an interest poll
to determine whether the group should be created.
4) 100 potential readers must indicate via the interest poll that they
would be interested in reading the group in order for the group to be
created. The interest poll must be conducted by email and must be
open for at least one week and may not run for longer than four weeks.
No group is created without receiving at least 100 potential readers'
support in an interest poll. Any group which fails to receive 100
votes of support in the voting period may not be re-proposed for at
least four months.
5) Upon passing their interest poll vote, newgroup messages will be
issued for the new groups. A us.* hierarchy checkgroups message will
be issued monthly and will also be included in the monthly list of
alternative and regional newsgroups hierarchies issued by David
Lawrence, moderator of news.announce.newgroups and news.lists.
Note: At this time, no procedure for removal of us.* hierarchy groups
is proposed. That will be a suitable subject for discussion in
us.newsgroups.discuss, should people feel it necessary to propose such
a policy, and a policy can be agreed on there.
NAMING CONVENTIONS:
To avoid confusion and wasted namespace, the Coordinating Committee
attempts to place groups in logical areas of the hierarchy, instead of
following the convention of alt.fan.* to cover subjects ranging from
popular culture to politicians to radio stars and movie stars in one
catch-all subhierarchy.
Suggested subhierarchical classifications include:
us.books
us.culture
us.events
us.film
us.history
us.music
us.org
us.personality
us.politics
us.radio
us.sport
us.tv
COORDINATING COMMITTEE:
The Coordinating Committee consists of:
Dave Sill d...@ornl.gov
Joel Furr jf...@acpub.duke.edu
Jamie Gritton gri...@byu.edu
Mike Grubb m...@cambot.ac.duke.edu
Ed McGuire emcg...@i2.com
David Lawrence ta...@uunet.uu.net
Tim Pierce twpi...@unix.amherst.edu
The committee operates by consensus. The Committee can be
reached at us...@uunet.uu.net, us-newsgroups-
anno...@uunet.uu.net, or by emailing Dave Sill at d...@ornl.gov.
--article ends--
What follows next is the ballot for the proposed hierarchy. The
voting will be handled by Ron Dippold. Since this is NOT a Big 7
group proposal, and since voting on a USA-specific hierarchy would
become extremely complicated if one attempted to prevent non-Americans
from voting, and since the issue is so complex already, there are no
hard rules for what will be considered a passing result. Obviously,
if a large number of negative votes result, the proposers will redraft
the proposal to remove objectionable sections and provide alternate
mechanisms. Basically, however, if a large majority of the voters
support creation of the hierarchy, it will be created via newgroup
messages sent out by David Lawrence (ta...@uunet.uu.net). Subsequent
to the hierarchy's creation, though, creation of groups will be
handled by Dave Sill (d...@ornl.gov).
Voting in this poll will last for two weeks. Voting is open to anyone
sufficiently interested to bother to vote. One vote per person.
Standard Usenet Volunteer Vote-takers rules for discarding multiple
votes by one person or votes from non-person- specific accounts will
apply.
--ballot follows-
HOW TO VOTE
Send MAIL to: vot...@qualcomm.com
Just Replying should work if you are not reading this on a mailing list.
Your mail message should contain one of the following statements:
I vote YES on this us.* hierarchy proposal
I vote NO on this us.* hierarchy proposal
If you are quoting, please remove at least everything above the 'HOW
TO VOTE' line, as the CFV is quite large. You may add some brief
comments after your vote. These will be ignored by the voting
program, but will be passed on to the coordinating committee.
You may also ABSTAIN in place of YES/NO - this will not affect the outcome.
Anything else may be rejected by the automatic vote counting program. The
votetaker will respond to your received ballots with a personal acknowledge-
ment by mail - if you do not receive one within several days, try again.
It's your responsibility to make sure your vote is registered correctly.
One vote counted per person, no more than one per account. Addresses and
votes of all voters will be published in the final voting results list.
PROPOSAL
--article begins--
INTRODUCTION:
INITIAL GROUPS:
--article ends--
--article begins--
PROCEDURE:
NAMING CONVENTIONS:
Suggested subhierarchical classifications include:
COORDINATING COMMITTEE:
--article ends--
--ballot follows-
HOW TO VOTE
USA Hierarchy Poll Bounce List - No need to revote
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adr...@ada1.elan.af.mil L. Adrian Griffis
bda...@ea.com Britt Daniel
beck%jackpo...@mathcs.emory.edu Larry Beck
BROI...@mfg.mke.ab.com Jerry Broitzman
BRY...@HEB.CHEM.UTAH.EDU Roger Bryner
crouchkp%flidh101@[144.250.26.148] Kenneth P Crouch
cz...@ea.com Chuck Zoch
f...@nofs.navy.mil
gree...@scripps.edu Judy Greengard/BCR5/4-8236
HOYTMB/ENKA_NTF02//US/TELEMAIL/BASF////@basfx400.parsippa.basf-corp.co
hug...@ah.com Eric Hughes
jma...@ea.com Jeremy Mappus
ker...@elmo.tju.edu David J. Kernen
pla...@chmsr.gatech.edu Michael T. Palmer
S.R.E....@statslab.cam.ac.uk Stephen Turner
soc...@128.101.63.1 Tim Harincar
sro...@mcc.com Steve Rogers
st...@hunk.asel.udel.edu Gregg Stum
There were 406 YES votes and 1960 NO votes, for a total of 2366 valid votes.
There were 3 abstains and 1 invalid ballot.
Note: This is _not_ a standard results posting. The votetaker makes
no pass/fail judgements here. The Coordinating Committee will be
posting their interpretation of the results in a following post.
This vote was conducted by a neutral third party. For voting
PROPOSAL
--article begins--
INTRODUCTION:
INITIAL GROUPS:
us...@uunet.uu.net, us-newsgrou...@uunet.uu.net, or by
--article ends--
--article begins--
PROCEDURE:
NAMING CONVENTIONS:
Suggested subhierarchical classifications include:
COORDINATING COMMITTEE:
--article ends--
Since this is NOT a Big 7 group proposal, and since voting on a
USA-specific hierarchy would become extremely complicated if one
attempted to prevent non-Americans from voting, and since the issue is
so complex already, there are no hard rules for what will be
considered a passing result. Obviously, if a large number of negative
votes result, the proposers will redraft the proposal to remove
objectionable sections and provide alternate mechanisms. Basically,
however, if a large majority of the voters support creation of the
hierarchy, it will be created via newgroup messages sent out by David
Lawrence (ta...@uunet.uu.net). Subsequent to the hierarchy's creation,
though, creation of groups will be handled by Dave Sill
(d...@ornl.gov).
USA Hierarchy Poll Final Vote Ack
[ Votetaker's note: Considering the nature of this interest vote, I
allowed four personal/root accounts to register their votes. 1 for,
three against. They are marked with a '*' ]
Voted Yes
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le...@nbi.com Leigh Melton
le...@research.att.com David Lewis
lm...@Lehigh.EDU Linda Kreitz
lofs...@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Karen Lofstrom
ma...@server.cs.virginia.edu
mahe-marie...@yale.edu
ma...@ALIVE.AMPR.AB.CA Marc Slemko
Mark-...@deshaw.com
ma...@eis.calstate.edu Mark Crother
ma...@ncgrafix.demon.co.uk Mark Wassell
ma...@underflap.com Mark W. Schumann
ma...@cccd.edu Mark Bixby
ma...@pulse.com Mark C. Orton
ma...@harlequin.co.uk Mark Tillotson
mat...@mantis.co.uk mathew
ma...@physics.berkeley.edu.I.vote.YES.on.this.us.*.hierarchy.proposal Matt A
ma...@comm.mot.com Matt Keller
ma...@io.com maus
m...@eb.com Max Trummer
md...@ansa.co.uk Mike Beasley
m...@servalan.demon.co.uk Melanie Dymond Harper
m...@zadall.com Melanie Arabsky
m...@ac.duke.edu Michael Grubb
mha...@andy.bgsu.edu Michael F. Haynes
michael....@armltd.co.uk Michael Williams
mic...@iinet.com.au Michael O'Reilly
mi...@ssd.fsi.com Mike Bates
mj...@mrao.cam.ac.uk Martin Hardcastle
mj...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Jamie Cope
mko...@mcs.kent.edu Michael J Kovacs
m...@RedBrick.COM Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS
mol...@pyramid.com Mike Oliver
MOR...@FNALV.FNAL.GOV Greg Morrow
mo...@xenon.chem.ucla.edu David "Mort" Mortman
ms...@mcs.com Michael S. Schiffer
mv...@world.std.com Mary Vogt
mze...@netcom.com Mark Zenier
n914...@rowlf.cc.wwu.edu Jacob C Kesinger
NAR...@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU Randy Finder
nar...@optsun.riken.go.jp Helge Nareid
nc...@cus.cam.ac.uk Nigel Strudwick
nde...@acorn.co.uk Neal Dench
ni...@harlequin.co.uk Nick Reeves
nm...@cus.cam.ac.uk Nick Maclaren
npat...@acs.bu.edu
nrea...@london.micrognosis.com Neil Readwin
ol...@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu Margaret J. Olson
OT...@vaxb.acs.unt.edu M. Otto
P.C.S...@bradford.ac.uk Paul Sutton
P.S...@bristol.ac.uk Paul Smee
p01...@psilink.com phil reed
pas...@mathworks.com Dave Pascoe
pa...@mu.sans.vuw.ac.nz Paul Thomas
pa...@gdstech.grumman.com Paul Curran
Paul_...@vos.stratus.com Paul Green
pe...@harlequin.co.uk Pekka P Pirinen
pe...@manorcon.demon.co.uk Peter Sullivan
pet...@telerama.lm.com Peter Berger
phil...@anu.edu.au Phil Burg
ph...@rahul.net Phil Gustafson
phof...@proper.com Paul Hoffman
pi...@hilbert.maths.utas.edu.au La Monte Yarroll
pjen...@msmail3.hac.com Jensen, Patrick R
pm...@midway.uchicago.edu peg boucher murphy
pol...@cix.compulink.co.uk Paul Oldham
posi...@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM Jonathan Haas
psh...@MIT.EDU
p...@bradley.bradley.edu Pete Hartman
raed_...@msmail2.wes.mot.com Hafez Raed
ra...@psg.com Randy Bush
rc...@panix.com Pierre Jelenc
rcr...@library.carleton.ca Robert Craig
re...@cshl.org Corp Reed in CompBio (Marr Lab)
RE...@phx.cam.ac.uk Robert Hunt
ri...@bcm.tmc.edu Richard H. Miller
rien...@beta.tricity.wsu.edu Roderick M. Riensche
rjo...@us.oracle.com Roger....@us.oracle.com, "Jr.
rkle...@neumann.uwaterloo.ca Rob Leitman
rlc...@ANIMATO.PN.COM Rich Carreiro
rne...@media.mit.edu Ron Newman
robe...@hamer.ibd.nrc.ca Walter Roberson
Robert....@mcc.ac.uk Robert Goodwin
ro...@foobar.hanse.de * Jens Stark
ros...@faerun.mi.org Rod Shelton
roth...@mcs.kent.edu Michael Rothstein
r...@Harston.CV.COM Roy Wrathall
r...@panix.com Rob Brady
r...@mat.uc.pt Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro
rpta...@MIT.EDU
rsro...@wam.umd.edu R S Rodgers
rud...@cis.umassd.edu Lee Rudolph
ruf...@mbe.ece.wisc.edu
rvc4...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Bob Cadman
rwil...@ccnet.com Bob Wilkins n6fri
ry...@odouls.stx.com patrick m. ryan
S.R.E....@statslab.cam.ac.uk Stephen Turner
s...@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk Steve Linton
sche...@cs.arizona.edu Christian Schenzel
sch...@CMU.EDU David R. Sacco
schn...@orion.convex.com Eric Schnoebelen
s...@eskimo.com Steve Summit
se...@panix.com Seth Breidbart
sha...@netlabs.com Sharon Hopkins
she...@lmsc.lockheed.com sherry
sh...@TC.Cornell.EDU Melinda Shore
Simon....@cl.cam.ac.uk Simon Crosby
si...@midland.co.nz Simon Lyall
si...@uniqway.demon.co.uk Simon Middleton
sjpa...@cc.helsinki.fi Santeri Paavolainen
s...@eng.cam.ac.uk
sjs...@cs.UMD.EDU Stephen Joseph Smith
sl...@netcom.com Martin Veneroso
SLO...@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU Bob Sloane
sm...@minerva.cis.yale.edu Albert Smith
s...@gnu.ai.mit.edu Shawn O'Connor
s...@tpsinc.com Sam Kamens
som...@enea.se Erland Sommarskog
SPA...@physics.umr.edu Richard Sparrow
sp...@eskimo.com
s...@cis.ufl.edu
sre...@netcom.com Steve Renker
sr...@eng.cam.ac.uk Prof S.R. Watson
ssat...@BIX.com
stan...@uiuc.edu Stan Kerr
ste...@lick.UCSC.EDU Steinn Sigurdsson
ste...@sks.sub.de Stefan Scholl
sti...@access.digex.net Stiela
st...@astro.Princeton.EDU
suop...@stekt.oulu.fi Heikki T. Suopanki
supe...@mcs.com John Payson
sut...@utu.fi Kari Sutela
sw...@cus.cam.ac.uk Steve Hedley
ta...@uunet.uu.net David C Lawrence
t...@ksu.ksu.edu Tim Ramsey
ten...@netcom.com James H. Kiley
Terje.M...@hiMolde.no Terje Malmedal
te...@netcom.com Terra Goodnight
tger...@world.std.com Tom Gerstel
Thomas...@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de
thor...@radar.sauerland.de Thorsten Kitz
T...@vms.cis.pitt.edu Terry J. Wood
tmclo...@attmail.com Thomas R McLoughlin
to...@metrics.com Tom Haapanen
toms%sau...@ihs.com Tom Stockman
tro...@acorn.co.uk Timothy Roddis
t...@wag.caltech.edu Toshi Takeuchi
TWITCHE...@forum.va.gov
twpi...@unix.amherst.edu Tim Pierce
u911...@muss.cis.mcmaster.ca Brian Shipley
u92...@student.canberra.edu.au Gasparovski / Daniel (ISE)
u93...@daimi.aau.dk Benny Amorsen
UDA...@BAY.CC.KCL.AC.UK Silver Omega
u...@doliolum.biology.yale.edu Una Smith
Urban_Fr...@ki.icl.se Urban Fredriksson
uri...@netcom.com Ari (`Doc' Urizen) Jordon
UST...@UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU Landy Manderson
u...@mpi-sb.mpg.de Uwe Waldmann
vkoc...@nyx10.cs.du.edu Vance Kochenderfer
v...@acpub.duke.edu Virginia Fleming
vogon1!frackit!da...@cse.psu.edu Dave Ratcliffe
WA...@ernie.van.forintek.ca Ward F. Bush
war...@everest.cs.uq.oz.au Warwick Allison
wi...@hri.com Scott Wilde
will....@ftl.atl.ga.us
wit...@devserve.cebaf.gov Sue Witherspoon
w...@cs.cornell.edu William Rucklidge
w...@xivic.bo.open.de Wolfgang Schelongowski
yer...@phy.ulaval.ca Francois Yergeau
zes...@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de
zw...@Indy1.rivm.nl Marco van Zwetselaar
Voted No
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00047...@mcimail.com Eric McCormick
00058...@mcimail.com Adam Walks Between Worlds
00064...@mcimail.com Christopher Newhard
155yegan%jove.dnet.m...@juno.measurex.com ega...@measurex.com
203-...@wwiv.fred.com Galileo #203 @10000
6500...@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Kaptain Kent
688...@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM 6
70705...@compuserve.com Larry Andersen
71442...@compuserve.com Marc Briceno
7267...@compuserve.com Denise Brooks
93K...@wmich.edu
a-l...@microsoft.com Luke McGuff (S&T OnSite)
a-ra...@microsoft.com Rachel Alexander (General)
A10...@acsmail.acs.niu.edu
a12...@fpp.com Ray Ball
aa...@detroit.freenet.org K. A. Pohjola
aa2...@freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu Steve Crocker
aa...@netcom.com Anthony C. Ard
Abstained
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gol...@huhepu.harvard.edu Mitchell Golden
har...@ulogic.com
rcl...@nyx.cs.du.edu Robert W. F. Clark
Votes in error
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mod...@netcom.com Eric Walker
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