Xref: utzoo news.announce.newgroups:826 news.groups:27005 comp.misc:11089 comp.sys.misc:3185 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: votes@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.misc,comp.sys.misc Subject: CALL FOR VOTES: comp.sys.unisys Message-ID: Date: 7 Jan 91 07:54:06 GMT Sender: lear@turbo.bio.net Reply-To: votes@stl.stc.co.uk Followup-To: news.groups Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 66 Approved: lear@turbo.bio.net Charter: Comp.sys.unisys is intended for discussion of systems sold under the "Unisys" name, including former Sperry, Burroughs, and Convergent Technologies machines. Unisys software such as Mapper is also welcome. Most of the discussion of relabelled third-party UNIX equipment such as the Convergent Technologies 386 PC-clone based boxes or the Arix and Sequent minis would be expected to go on in comp.unix or comp.sys.sequent. The newsgroup will be unmoderated. Voting Period The voting period starts when this is posted and lasts for 28 days. Votes received after 24:00 GMT on Sunday 3rd February will not be counted. How to vote Vote by sending mail to votes@stl.stc.co.uk, with the word YES or NO (case immaterial) in the subject line. If you use rn or a similar news reader, you can use r (reply), add YES or NO to the Subject line, and mail. Then your vote would appear as one of the following: Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTES: comp.sys.unisys YES Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTES: comp.sys.unisys NO Votes which do not contain yes or no in the Subject line, or which are sent to me instead of 'votes', will cause me extra work but will still be counted if unambiguous. Ambiguous votes and any posted votes will not be counted. If your mailer will not accept mail to the above address try votes%stl.stc.co.uk@uunet.uu.net or ...uunet!mcsun!stl!votes You could even send me X.400 mail at the address given in my signature. Votes will be acknowledged by mail, but any acknowledgement that bounces will not be re-tried. However I will also acknowledge by a mass posting to news.groups. The final vote tally will be posted at the end of the vote, including a list showing how everyone voted. Credit where it's due department Peter da Silva supplied the group charter shown above. This particular discussion on having a Unisys group was started by Craig Wilson. Vote Taker's credentials I have no personal interest in whether there is a Unisys group or not - I don't work for, sell or even use any Unisys systems. I volunteered to take the vote because Craig didn't want to, and I had objected to alt.unisys on the grounds that it should really go for voting as comp.sys.unisys rather than become an alt group just because nobody could be bothered to carry out a vote. Anyway I haven't done one recently :-) Summary of discussion The Call for Discussion was posted to news.announce.newgroups a month ago. At the time I said I'd call the vote in two weeks time unless someone had a good reason to delay it: I promptly got such a reply citing "Christmas". As to actual discussion, there has been very little, almost all in favour. The only question is whether enough people actually want the group: the vote will settle that. Regards, David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK dww@stl.stc.co.uk ...uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!dww PSI%234237100122::DWW /g=David/s=Wright/org=STC Technology Ltd/prmd=STC plc/admd=Gold 400/co=GB