There were 216 YES votes and 13 NO votes, for a total of 229 valid votes.
There were 15 invalid ballots.
For group passage, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all valid (YES and NO)
votes. There also must be at least 100 more YES votes than NO votes.
There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted. If no
serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the moderator of
news.announce.newgroups will create the group shortly thereafter.
Newsgroups line:
soc.culture.costa-rica Topics about Costa Rica.
Voting closed 23:59:59 UTC, 12 Oct 1995.
This vote was conducted by a neutral third party. Questions
about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent.
Proponent: Jorge Lopez <J.L...@ttu.edu>
Votetaker: Steve Bonine <s...@ntrs.com>
RATIONALE:
This newsgroup will provide a forum where people all over the world can
exchange information and discuss issues about Costa Rica.
Although it is expected that most of the participants will be Costa Ricans
and friends of Costa Rica living at home or around the world, everyone
is welcome to participate.
CHARTER: soc.culture.costa-rica
soc.culture.costa-rica is intended to be an unmoderated forum for
discussion on issues relevant to the culture, people, resources, and
politics of Costa Rica.
All topics for discussion relevant to Costa Rica are appropriate, and
would include, but not limited to:
Costa Rican laws, political and social issues.
Costa Rican economy and commerce.
Costa Rican literature, music, and art.
Costa Rican history and geography.
Costa Rican Travel information and tourism.
Costa Rican Customs, traditions, food, etc.
Costa Rican Sports and recreation.
Publication of "digests" (periodic publications, like CHIRRIPO)
with current events.
The primary language on soc.culture.costa-rica will be SPANISH,
Costa Rica's official language, but posting in other languages will
be allowed and we encourage translations into Spanish/English for the
benefit of other woldwide netters.
END CHARTER.
soc.culture.costa-rica Final Vote Ack
Voted Yes
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00069...@mcimail.com Jose Rojas
76502...@compuserve.com Stephen M. Haynach
a...@eng.clemson.edu Alexander Bell
aca...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Andres Campos A.
aca...@picayune.coginst.uwf.edu Alberto J. Canas
aco...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Alberto J. Cortes Ramos
adw...@baervan.nmt.edu Adwait Chawathe
ag...@lafn.org Mark Baldwin
agal...@garnet.acns.fsu.edu Alejandro =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Gallard
aj...@cbmsg.att.com Alberto Avila
Alc...@dsif.fee.unicamp.br Juan Carlos Alvarado Alcocer
alf...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Mauricio Alfaro
algh...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Anwar Al-Ghassani T.
alo...@computo.catie.ac.cr Ana Loaiza M.(Madelena 3)
al...@cldc.howard.edu Alberto Rey
alva...@computo.catie.ac.cr Alvaro Chaves A.(COSUDE)
amat...@ecn.purdue.edu Adolfo B. Matamoros
AM...@macalstr.edu Que barbaro chavalo...
ar...@grove.ufl.EDU Andres Riggioni
aro...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Alexander Rojas Parajeles
art...@kaos.unh.edu Arturo Sanchez
AS...@asuvm.inre.asu.edu Paul Eckhardt
aval...@inst-sun1.jpl.nasa.gov Adolfo A. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Valer=EDn?= Sr.
bena...@coe.wvu.edu FRANCISCO BENAVIDES
bi...@cygnus.wa.com Bill Swan
b...@herbison.com B.J. Herbison
bla...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Luis A. Blanco Vega
ble...@io.org Bradley Lennon
bri...@copper.ucs.indiana.edu Brian Hostetler
broo...@panix.com Steve Rayboy
cam...@cemvax.cem.msu.edu Cristian Campos
ca...@mthcsc.wfu.edu Daniel A. Canas
CANE...@frl.orst.edu EDWIN CANESSA
carb...@indiana.edu Erick Carballo
car...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Carlos E. Calvo Pineda
car...@io.com carlosq
ca...@ecst.csuchico.edu Alex Casaw
cat...@netcom.com Mark Kupferman
cbel...@Saglac.Qc.Ca Christian Belisle
cbs...@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Christopher B. Stone
cc...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Carmen Chuy Sam
cdb...@world.std.com Carlos Zamora
cdel...@toto.csustan.edu Dinier Quiros
cgra...@computo.catie.ac.cr Carlos Enrique Granados Molina
cha...@ere.umontreal.ca Chacon Albino
chacon_...@nova.novanet.org Roger R. Chacon
CHRI...@iadb.org Christel Steinvorth
cjim...@computo.catie.ac.cr Carlos Jimenez Ching (Computo/Analista)
clgo...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu claudio gonzalez
cn1...@abaco.coastalnet.com james p doyle
Concha_L...@hp-loveland-om10.om.hp.com Concha Lopez-Fay
corr...@lark.cc.ukans.edu Francisco Corrales
cs...@eiu.edu Jan B. Faires
cxm...@psu.edu carlos mendez
d...@pobox.com Denis A. Steulet
d...@america.com David Zill
dev...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Devora Grynspan
dma...@garnet.acns.fsu.edu Dimas Madriz
doc...@doctor.nl2k.edmonton.ab.ca Dave Shariff Yadallee
ds...@indiana.edu Daniel Soto-Mayorga
e91...@anubis.ecci.ucr.ac.cr Evelyn Bermudez Montoya
eal...@buho.dpi.udec.cl Eric Alfaro
eam...@siu.edu Eduardo A. Monge
ear...@vms2.tamu.edu Edgar Rojas
ecar...@forwild.umass.edu Eduardo Carrillo
edga...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Edgardo Flores A.
egut...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Edgar E. Gutierrez-Espeleta
eli...@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu Eliecer Vargas
ES...@american.edu Enrique Soto
exp...@sover.net Debbie Jacobs
Flori...@ualberta.ca Floria Roa
fsa...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Freddy Sancho Mora
fzou...@cis.ufl.edu Federico Zoufaly
gam...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Gerardo Mora
ga...@cts.com Gary Morris
g...@qbc.clic.net George Petryk
geo...@tulsa.com Brett Brough
gh...@bright.net Greg Hood
gmi...@ns.fing.ucr.ac.cr George Miley
gmol...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Guillermo Loria
gt8...@prism.gatech.edu Jack Marriott
guti...@falcon.cc.ukans.edu Sandra Gutierrez-Ruiz
gval...@computo.catie.ac.cr Gonzalo Valverde C.(Biotecnologia)
Han...@PO.AERS.PSU.EDU Hanson, Gregory D.
hgon...@computo.catie.ac.cr Herberth Gonzalez R.(M.I.P.)
hlib...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Hector V. Libreros Munoz
Hond...@aol.com Brad Martin
hr...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Hugo Rodrigo Ruiz-Avila
hugo...@citicorp.com Hugo A. Mora
hu...@lanter.net Jean-Hugues Roy
ist...@a.crl.com C.G. Vargas, IsthmusComm
j.mora-...@prostar.com J.Mora-Herrera
japa...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Alejandro Palacios F.
Javier...@internet.microp.com Javier Castro
jch...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Ing. Juan Ramon Chacon Calderon
jfre...@uclink.berkeley.edu Jim Freeman
JIM...@MAIL.LOC.GOV RITA D JIMENEZ
jime...@computo.catie.ac.cr Carlos Jimenez Nunez (Madelena 3/Analista)
J...@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu Julio M. Arias
JMA...@aol.com Jorge Montero
JMO...@LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU Jorge Mario
j...@decoy.uoregon.edu Joe St Sauver
jon...@io.org Trevor Tymchuk
jor...@ECE.concordia.CA Jorge Arturo Romero-Chacon
Jorge_A._...@together.cudenver.edu Jorge A. Gutirrez
jos...@cis.ohio-state.edu Sudish Joseph
jos...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Michael Josephy
j...@cis.ufl.edu Jose Ronald Arguello
jrod...@orion.oac.uci.edu Juana Maria Rodriguez
Jua...@aol.com Juan Antonio Thomas Testa
jup...@gel.ulaval.ca Juan Parra
jva...@emate.efis.ucr.ac.cr Javier Vargas
jvil...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Juan Ml. Villasuso Estomba
J...@PLANTPATH.WISC.EDU James Karkashian
kch...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Katya Chacon Rosania
ke...@bywater.songbird.com Kent Crispin
lach...@wtm.com Leo J. LaChance
land...@tenet.edu Douglas Paul Landers
laux...@ix.netcom.com Peter Disch-Lauxmann
lcas...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Luis Castrillo
lfl...@computo.catie.ac.cr Leonidas Flores P.(Rec.Humanos/Planillas)
lgo...@computo.catie.ac.cr Leopoldo Gomez (Posgrado)
LHE...@clemson.edu Luis F. Herrera
list-...@dream.hb.north.de Martin Schr"oder
l...@cs.wustl.edu Liz Hanks
ll...@midway.uchicago.edu Lyonette Louis-Jacques
lu...@worldbank.org Luis Herrera
LVA...@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU Leonardo Vazquez
mac...@computo.catie.ac.cr Maria Achoy Z.(Rec.Humanos/Planillas)
man...@condor.sccs.swarthmore.edu Manuel Carballo
marq...@u.washington.edu Steve Marquardt
mar...@worldbank.org Marvin Aguero
ma...@math.psu.edu Mauricio Mata
mboz...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Maria E. Bozzoli V.
mcab...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Marvin Cabezas
mec...@essex.ac.uk Mariemilia Chacon
me...@cornell.edu Miguel Munoz
mga...@ecst.csuchico.edu **Mario Gamboa**
mgil...@halcyon.com Michael Gillman
mgu...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Mario Guerra
mhid...@computo.catie.ac.cr Manuel Hidalgo O.(Madelena 3)
migu...@unm.edu miguel angel valdivia bautista
mike...@netcom.com Michael Docy
mmai...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Mario Mainieri Ziegler
mma...@pcs.mv-oc.unisys.com Mike Marin
mps...@irazu.una.ac.cr Maykol Phillips Seas
msal...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Mario Salazar
MSi...@aol.com Marco Sibaja
muno...@gold.tc.umn.edu Fernando Munoz-Quesada
MUNO...@tigger.stcloud.msus.edu Mauricio A Munoz
mwda...@students.uiuc.edu Michael W. Daniels
MXN...@prodigy.com MS LAURA HEIDEN
ncle...@ix.netcom.com Nancy Clemens
nsal...@computo.catie.ac.cr Norman Salazar A.(Computo/Analista)
oare...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Oscar Arevalo Solorzano
obr...@computo.catie.ac.cr Oscar Brenes
OGU...@sask.usask.ca Oguocha
ol...@viking.mv.com Olav Nieuwejaar
OL...@iadb.org Olga M. Chavarria
onew...@netcom.com Rebecca Keith
os...@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Jorge Osejo
PA...@melaten.ihf.rwth-aachen.de Pablo Alvarado
pau...@astro.ocis.temple.edu Pam Austin
p...@wnet.bos.nl Paul C. Langelaan
ped...@geol.umd.edu Pedro Jugo
phi...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Philip Hughes Farro
phu...@innet.be Patrick Hublou
psu0...@odin.cc.pdx.edu Aaron Arguedas
psu0...@odin.cc.pdx.edu Alberto Gonzalez
RAFA...@iadb.org RAFAELA VARELA
rlma...@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu Roger Madrigal
rob...@keltia.freenix.fr Ollivier Robert
ro...@vmark.com Roger MacNicol
ROL...@bio.tamu.edu Roldan A. Valverde
rom...@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp Edwin J. Romero
r...@versa.com Ron E. Mader
rpi...@uclink.berkeley.edu ROSELLA PICADO
rsol...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Rodrigo Solano Sabatier
rwe...@freenet.columbus.oh.us Rosie Wendt
rzel...@indiana.edu rodrigo a zelaya rodriguez
sa...@chardos.connix.com Scott Kenney
sala...@mercury.sfsu.edu Kattia Salazar
sa...@dkrz.d400.de Joachim Saul
sequ...@paho.org Ms. Zaida Sequeira
SHOL...@tenhoor.as.ua.edu J. SELWYN HOLLINGSWORTH
Shris...@lambada.oit.unc.edu Shrisha Rao
sl...@Calvin.EDU Howard Slenk
slot...@poisson.com Slothrop
smen...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Edgar Arturo S=E1nchez Mendoza
sol...@hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp Yadira Solano Sabatier
son...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Sinia Rodriguez S.
spiz...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Silvia Pizarro A.
stoe...@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Gregor Stoelting
tc...@tccn.com Coralie J. Allen
tev...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Teodoro Evans B.
tla...@email.develop.american.edu Todd C. Lawson
toma...@mimas.otol.fi Tomi Matilainen
tor...@cc.gatech.edu torres
tt4...@hongo.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp Roger Vargas
twas...@computo.catie.ac.cr Teresa Washington N.(Madelena 3)
uj...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Giovanni Najera Barquero
um...@freenet.victoria.bc.ca Ted Burkmar
uso...@indiana.edu Ulises Gerardo Solano
UTOP...@aol.com Michael Lerner
ve...@ttacs1.ttu.edu Jorge Lopez
Victor...@quorum.nacion.co.cr Victor Morgan
wer...@cs.utexas.edu Werner Uhrig
weso...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Wilbert Ezequiel Solano Rojas
wfhu...@chat.carleton.ca wilfredo farias-hurtado
wide...@cc.helsinki.fi Risto Widenius
wil...@ecst.csuchico.edu WILLIAM ISMAEL AVENDANO
wil...@ruf.rice.edu Bruce M Wilson
wmwa...@ncsu.edu William M. Walter
wva...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr William Vargas Monge
wva...@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp William Vargas-Monge
YHS...@prodigy.com MR JIM W PALMER
Voted No
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cl...@columbia.edu Christopher Lodge Stamper
csa...@urc.tue.nl Michiel Wijers
dra...@netcom.com Ryan
femi...@eskimo.com William Affleck-Asch
j...@globalvillag.com John R. MacWilliamson
lan...@cats.ucsc.edu Lance K. Chun
m...@redbrick.com M Mike Taksar KC6ZPS
pa...@lcs.mit.edu Patrick J. LoPresti
ri...@bcm.tmc.edu Richard H. Miller
ry...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu Glen Patrick Ryan
sma...@turing.toronto.edu Smarasderagd
stai...@bga.com Dwight Brown
t...@netcom.com Thomas G. McWilliams
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lar...@zk3.dec.com
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le...@ucr.ac.cr Leda Arguedas
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mac...@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Mario Cruz
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