CFV: rec.radio.amateur reorganization
Ian Kluft KD6EUI
REC.RADIO.AMATEUR REORGANIZATION
This is an official Call for Votes for the reorganization of the
rec.radio.amateur hierarchy of newsgroups. This vote will be conducted
according to the official newsgroup creation procedures, which are posted
regularly in news.groups.
Votes may be cast only with the simple fill-in-the-blanks form which appears
in the "HOW TO CAST YOUR VOTE" section later in this CFV.
SUBJECT OF VOTE
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All of the newsgroups proposed below are UNMODERATED.
rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc
amateur packet radio, RTTY, AMTOR, Clover and other digital amateur
radio modes (This replaces rec.radio.amateur.packet and adds other
digital modes to the subject)
rec.radio.amateur.digital.tcp-ip
TCP/IP via amateur packet radio
rec.radio.amateur.dx
DX (long distance) amateur radio communications
rec.radio.amateur.antenna
amateur radio antennas: theory, techniques and construction
rec.radio.amateur.equipment
amateur radio equipment: manufactured products and modifications
rec.radio.amateur.instruction
amateur radio instruction & examination
rec.radio.amateur.operating
amateur radio operating procedures and techniques
rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
amateur radio construction & experimentation
rec.radio.amateur.space
amateur radio in space: amateur radio satellites, earth-moon-earth
(EME) communications, space shuttle, MIR space station, etc.
rec.radio.amateur.emerg-services
emergency services: RACES, ARES, NTS, and other use of amateur radio
in emergencies or disasters
rec.radio.amateur.rdf
radio direction finding: recreational hunts and searches for
interference
Two existing newsgroups will not be affected by this vote. They are
rec.radio.amateur.misc and rec.radio.amateur.policy. They do not appear on
the voting form and no changes resulting from this procedure will apply to
them. rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc will replace rec.radio.amateur.packet if
it passes, otherwise rec.radio.amateur.packet will remain unchanged.
DURATION OF VOTE
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Voting will commence when this CFV is posted. It will continue until
9 June 1993 at 23:59PM UTC.
Voting procedures are detailed in the next section, "HOW TO CAST YOUR VOTE."
Upon completion of the voting period, the results will be posted to
news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, rec.radio.info and all the current
rec.radio.amateur.* newsgroups. In order to pass, newsgroups must have at
least a 2/3 majority of YES votes and at least 100 more YES than NO votes.
HOW TO CAST YOUR VOTE
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Jay Maynard, K5ZC, is serving as vote-taker for this vote. Please REPLY to
this message via MAIL to his account, jmay...@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu; using your
newsreader's "mail a reply" command on this message should work. Posted votes
can not be counted. You will receive a reply within a few days after your
votes are received which indicates how the vote counting software thinks you
voted - please mail corrections immediately.
PLEASE USE THE FORM AS IT IS.
Please do not delete anything between the "-=-=-=-=-" lines - and most
certainly do not monkey with the group names. Votes will be tallied by an
automatic program and if it can't determine your vote you will be asked to
re-vote.
For each group that you wish to vote on, simply add your vote in the
appropriate space on the same line. Recognized votes are Yes, No, For, and
Against. Yes and For are equivalent, as are No and Against. Capitalization is
not important. If you want to abstain from voting on a particular group, just
leave the space blank. Don't worry about spacing of the columns or any quote
characters ">" that your reply inserts.
You may _NOT_ do a combined vote - i.e., "I vote for all of them" or "I vote
against all of them." Please use the form.
You may only vote once, regardless of how many accounts you may have.
Forwarded or proxy votes are invalid.
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rec.radio.amateur reorganization Ballot [RRAR0001]
Your Vote Group
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yes this.is.an.example.group
>no this.is.another.example.group
this.is.an.example.abstention
rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc
rec.radio.amateur.digital.tcp-ip
rec.radio.amateur.dx
rec.radio.amateur.antenna
rec.radio.amateur.equipment
rec.radio.amateur.instruction
rec.radio.amateur.operating
rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
rec.radio.amateur.space
rec.radio.amateur.emerg-services
rec.radio.amateur.rdf
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REFERENCES
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For more information on the newsgroup creation procedures, refer to the
article "Guidelines for UseNet Newsgroup Creation" in news.groups,
news.announce.newgroups and news.answers. It includes the requirements behind
the rules in this CFV including, for example, voting by mail only, the allowed
length of the voting period, required margins to pass, prohibition against
proxy, forwarded, or conditional votes, etc.
For a complete transcript of the decision-making process that led up to the
Request for Discussion and Call for Votes for the rec.radio.amateur
reorganization, anonymous FTP to charon.amdahl.com and obtain the files called
/pub/radio/amateur/news.groups-discussion.Z
/pub/radio/amateur/rra-reorg.log.*.Z
The newsgroups on this CFV were the result of the 30-day discussion period
that followed the Request for Discussion (which was posted March 25, 1993.)
The rra-reorg mail list was the forum for developing the RFD and for turning
the results of the discussion on news.groups into this CFV. The mail list was
advertised several times on the rec.radio.amateur.* newsgroups. The following
people chose to join and assisted in putting together the proposal:
b...@nj8j.atl.ga.us (Ben Coleman NJ8J)
br...@nucleus.amd.com (Brian McMinn N5PSS)
ca...@uts.amdahl.com (Chris Swartout N6WCP)
c...@hertz.njit.edu (Chris Peckham WG2W)
datw...@moons.sim.es.com (Doug Datwyler WR7O)
eh...@arrl.org (Ed Hare KA1CV)
ikl...@uts.amdahl.com (Ian Kluft KD6EUI)
j...@dreaml.wariat.org (Jon Anhold N8USK)
jg...@uts.amdahl.com (John Thompson KD6KID)
jmay...@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard K5ZC)
ma...@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca (Mark Salyzyn VE6MGS)
pa...@umunhum.Stanford.EDU (Paul Flaherty N9FZX)
psch...@cwis.unomaha.edu (Paul W Schleck KD3FU)
ro...@jackatak.raider.net (Jack GF Hill W4PPT)
st...@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Schallehn KB0AGD)
st...@wattres.sj.ca.us (Steve Watt KD6GGD)