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From: vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H)
Newsgroups: trial.soc.culture.italian
Subject: Re: New newsgroups
Message-ID: <1991May8.013322.29955@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 01:33:22 GMT
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In article <1991May7.150114.5831@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> distef@csri.toronto.edu (Eugenia Distefano) writes:
>
>The trial period should be over in a month or so. Actually, what I would 
>like to know from the "originator" (Denis?) is whether he is in touch with 
>the appointed "judges" for t.s.c.i. and whether he knows on what measure 
>they are going to base their decision. My understanding was that the
>decision was going to be based on arbitron results. However, never in the
>past four months any mention of t.s.c.i. appeared in the monthly posting 
>of the arbitron results (not even for April, even though I am sure that 
>at least five different sites carrying t.s.c.i ran arbitron in April...).
>Are they monitoring the traffic on the group otherwise? If not, does 
>this mean that the trial period will be extended or that the group fails?
>As also somebody else asked, can votes be taken for a s.c.i while a
>t.s.c.i. is in existence (or after a t.s.c.i. has failed)?
>
>The distribution of the trial hierarchy seems to have lots of problems,
>so I really hope that whatever is left of the trial period be as short 
>as possible.
>
>--
We had to go to some effort to get this group fed to Iowa State.  I only
found out about it because of a chance comment in some e-mail I
received.  There have been several other soc.culture.countries groups
voted on, all of which have passed their votes overwhelmingly, and all
of which seem to be boiling with traffic. The Canada group is getting
more than I can keep up with, and the new Europe group is the same way.
I can't believe that a vote for s.c.i would do anything but succeed.


-- 
Hank van Cleef  
vancleef@iastate.edu	Iowa State University, Ames. Ia.
tmn!vancleef		The Union Institute, Cincinnati, Oh.