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From: page@ulowell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: creation of amiga tech group
Message-ID: <5190@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 88 21:46:22 GMT
Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
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Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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Posted: Tue Mar  1 16:46:22 1988

I'm sticking my neck out (as a non-net-god) and creating the
comp.sys.amiga.tech group.  This is the first posting.

Informal USENET guidelines for newsgroup creation state that after a
30-day voting period, if 100 more YES votes exist than NO votes, the
new group will be created.  Bryce Nesbitt (was at address
bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu until the machine crashed, is now at address
bryce@eris.berkeley.edu) took the vote and posted the results,
reproduced below.  Over a week has gone by since the results were
announced, and the group wasn't created (and I know how to do it :-)
so I created the group.

..Bob


From: bryce@eris.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.amiga,comp.misc
Subject: Final results from the "comp.sys.amiga.tech" vote.
Message-ID: <7089@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 88 02:10:59 GMT
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Reply-To: bryce@eris.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
Followup-To: Edit the groups line!
Organization: University of California, Berkeley

The 30 days for the vote on adding a ".tech" group to comp.sys.amiga has
expired.  The final results are as follows:

    The filesystem on which votes were stored was destroyed.  There are no
    known backups.

I'm not happy about this, but there is no way to recover the information.
An accurate tally can not be produced.	There is no way to verify the
votes.	Informal results are estimated as follows:

    YES     ~200
	    (~25 would prefer the name ".programmer".  This leaves the
	    placement of hardware articles up in the air) (Many indicated
	    they would still read both.  Others indicated that they will
	    read both, but concentrate more "quality" reading time on one
	    or the other.)

    NO	    ~35
	    (Many no votes came from BITNETers that feared loosing access
	    to the new group.  Most of the rest of the NOs were from people
	    who felt the split would not work.)

    YES ON MULTI-WAY KEYWORD SPLIT   ~40
	    (The multi-way split was never formally announced, but was
	    voted on be some people anyway)

Actual formalized use of the "Keywords:" line has been discussed, but no
vote has been taken.

Sigh.  It is still difficult to extract useful information from
comp.sys.amiga.

	    -Bryce Nesbitt
|\_/|  . ACK!, NAK!, EOT!, SOH!
{o o} .     Bryce Nesbitt
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-- 
Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
"I don't know such stuff.  I just do eyes."  -- from 'Blade Runner'