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From: hans@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Hans Huttel)
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Subject: FINAL CALL FOR VOTES - rec.sport.soccer
Message-ID: <1303@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Dec 89 14:50:03 GMT
Reply-To: hans@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Hans Huttel)
Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U
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This is the FINAL call for votes for the proposed newsgroup
rec.sport.soccer dedicated to the sport Association Football,
colloquially referred to as soccer and known in many countries as
e.g. football, Fussball, fotboll or futbol.

PLEASE NOTE: The vote ends on Saturday 9
December. Votes received after this date will
NOT be accepted.

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IMPORTANT : Remember to indicate if you vote
YES or NO. This may seem self-evident, but
quite a few people have forgotten this. The
newsgroup creation rules state that votes must
be unambiguous. If you have voted once already
AND your vote was unambiguous AND you have
received your acknowledgment, there is no need
for you to vote again ! See below for further
details. 
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I have sent vote acknowledgments to all voters; however, some ack.'s have 
bounced. Please accept my sincerest apologies.


PROPOSED CHARTER :
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The newsgroup rec.sport.soccer will be a forum for discussions of, 
among other things

- Postings of international & national soccer results
- Discussions of soccer teams & players
- Technical discussions of strategies, dubious referee decisions etc.

The newsgroup will be global and unmoderated.


HOW TO VOTE:
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REMEMBER : Do NOT post to the net; all votes must be mailed to me.

The easiest way of voting is to hit `r' when reading this article. 

If you want to vote YES to rec.sport.soccer as described above,
put a YES in the subject line.

If you want to vote NO to rec.sport.soccer as described above,
put a NO in the subject line.

As usual, no `conditional' votes are counted in.

Votes will be received by me personally - I can be reached on the
addresses mentioned in my signature at the bottom of this posting.

I will acknowledge your votes by e-mail as soon as I receive them.

LENGTH OF VOTING PERIOD :
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The voting began on November 15, 1989 and ends on December 9. 

After the end of the voting period the complete result will be posted
to news.groups, news.announce.newgroups and rec.sport.misc.





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