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From HEMMAT@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Mon Feb 17 23:52:06 1992
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 90 19:40 CST
From: "M. Hemmat" <HEMMAT@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Subject: Formal Call for Discussion: Formation of soc.culture.iranian
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[For some reason, this got clogged in the queue, and should have gone
 out sometime last week.  Apologoies for the delay.-eliot]

 Formal call for discussion
 ==========================
 This is the 1st call for discussion for the creation of an Iranian
 soc.culture newsgroup.
 The proposed newsgroup, unmoderated soc.culture.iranian, is intended
 to generally provide a medium for those interested to express and share
 their views and feelings about *things* (usually discussed in soc.culture
 newsgroups) related to Iran and Iranians. 
 The discussion period will last for 2 weeks.  
 Comments and discussions are welcome.
 M. Hemmat

From hemmat@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Tue Feb 18 00:15:00 1992
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From: hemmat@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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Subject: 1st Formal Call for Votes: creation of soc.culture.iranian
Date: 20 Feb 90 20:26:04 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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 This is the first formal "call for votes" for the creation of a world-wide,
 UNMODERATED Soc.Culture.Iranian newsgroup on USENET.

 The name, charter, and whether it should be moderated or not were generally
 agreed upon during the discussion period.

 The proposed newsgroup is intended to GENERALLY provide a medium for those
 INTERESTED to express, share, and exchange their views, ideas, and feelings
 about Iran and Iranian culture.

 Possible discussion issues (extracted from articles posted/e-mailed during
 the discussion period) include aspects of Iranian/Persian
   - culture, history, philosophy, geography;
   - societies, traditions, customs;
   - literature, poetry, art, folklore;
   - music, movies;
   - language, books;
   - science, technology;
   - food, cookery;
   - local events, news, programs, economy;
   - communities abroad, problems, needs; and
   - *things* normally discussed in the "soc.culture" newsgroups.

 To Vote, send an e-mail to:
   hemmat@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu   (internet) or
   hemmat@ukanvax              (bitnet) or
   simply reply to this message.

 Voting period will last from Feb 21th, until Midnight, March 13th, 1990.

 As per USENET newsgroup creation guidelines,
   - Votes MUST be explicit; they should be of the form "I vote (YES) for
     the creation of newsgroup soc.culture.iranian as proposed" or "I vote
     against (NO for) the creation of newsgroup soc.culture.iranian as
     proposed". The wording doesn't have to be exact, it just needs to be
     unambiguous.
     In particular, statements of the form "I would vote for this group
     if..." are considered COMMENTS and will NOT be counted as votes.
   - Only votes that arrive DURING the voting period will be counted.
   - ONLY votes E-MAILED to the vote-taker will count.
   - Votes POSTED to the net for any reason (including inability to get
     mail to the vote-taker) and proxy votes (such as having a mailing
     list maintainer claim a vote for each member of the list) will NOT
     be counted.
   - At the end of the voting period, if 100 more YES/create votes are
     received than NO/don't create votes AND at least 2/3 of the total
     number of valid votes received are in favor of the creation, a
     newgroup control message will be sent out. If the 100 vote margin
     or 2/3 percentage is not met, the newsgroup will not be created.

 M. Hemmat
 Vote-taker


From hemmat@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Tue Feb 18 00:33:32 1992
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From: hemmat@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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Subject: Vote result of the proposed newsgroup: soc.culture.iranian
Date: 14 Mar 90 02:58:09 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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 The voting period for the creation of soc.culture.iranian ended at
 midnight March 13th, 1990. The newsgroup passes with a vote tally
 of 251 "yes" and 30 "no" votes. The result meets both the 100 minimum
 difference and 2:3 ratio requirements.
 I have included the names of the voters when they were available.
 The e-mail addresses however, in some cases, are not absolute
 addresses but addresses offset from my home site.

 I can not help but to share one of the few comments I have received during
 the voting period. I thought it was rather funny.
 >I vote yes for the creation of newsgroup soc.culture.iranian.
 >P.S.  It'll keep all those terrorists off the streets and hacking unix
 >instead.

 My thanks to everyone who voted.  

 Positive ("Yes") votes:

 "1shadi@hou2d.att.com"
 "2hjaahoy@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu"
 "2hjaweapon@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu"
 "aabiyaba@ATHENA.MIT.EDU"
 "aam9n@uvaee.ee.Virginia.EDU"  "Ali Minai"
 "abdallah%sal-sun13.usc.edu@usc.edu"
 "abdullah@jupiter.nmt.edu"  "Abdullah Soner Akkurt"
 "abulsari@finabo.abo.fi"  "Abhay Bulsari"
 "adaghi@Sun.COM"
 "afridi@ATHENA.MIT.EDU"  "Khurram Khan Afridi"
 "afshari@hplwhc.hpl.hp.com"  "Bahram Afshari"
 "ahmad@EBay.Sun.COM"
 "akalantar@finabo.abo.fi"
 "akb104@PSUVM.PSU.EDU"  "Alan K. Beihagi"
 "akgun@jupiter.nmt.edu"  "Vedat Akgun"
 "akritas@csvax.cs.ukans.edu"
 "alain@centauri.boeing.com"  "Alain"
 "amdcad!mmpam@ames.arc.nasa.gov"
 "amini@caen.engin.umich.edu"  "Amir Amini"
 "amir@twain.EE.cornell.edu"
 "amiri@portia.stanford.edu"  "Kourosh Amiri"
 "amirs@EBay.Sun.COM"
 "anahita@hpindwa.hp.com"  "Anahita Varjavand"
 "anoosh@earth.cray.com"
 "anoosh@mips.com"
 "applic@philmtl.philips.ca"
 "aragorn!naimi@hotsun.att.com"
 "ardebili%puphep.decnet@pupgg.Princeton.EDU"  "PUPHEP::ARDEBILI"
 "ardeshir@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu"  "Ardeshir Goshtasby"
 "aries!kamran@swan.ulowell.edu"
 "armon@ef.ecn.purdue.edu"
 "arq@mentor.cc.purdue.edu"
 "ashok@atrp.mit.edu"  "Ashok Chhabedia Popat"
 "azinh@cadence.com"  "Azin Hojjati"
 "babak@ATHENA.MIT.EDU"
 "baha@centauri.boeing.com"
 "bahman@MDI.COM"
 "bas@sabre.bellcore.com"
 "behrooz@frith.egr.msu.edu"
 "behzad@bacchus.eng.umd.edu"
 "behzad@speedy.att.com"
 "belld@vax1.tcd.ie"  "Derek Bell"
 "bes@CITJULIE.BITNET"
 "besmer@oxy.edu"
 "betsyp@apollo.com"  "Betsy Perry"
 "bizhan@parns.nsc.com"
 "bk@alux3.att.com"
 "cafsari@oracle.com"  "Cami Afsari"
 "carmen@beach.cis.ufl.edu"  "Carmen Ramirez"
 "chireh@caen.engin.umich.edu"  "Mehran Chirehdast"
 "chm004@MUVMS3.BITNET"
 "christine_chan@mtsg.ubc.ca"
 "cyrus@ATHENA.MIT.EDU"  "Cyrus"
 "dadoun@cs.ubc.ca"  "Nou Dadoun"
 "daijavd@IBM.COM"  "Shahrokh Daijavad"
 "danesh@homxb.att.com"
 "darab@hpedc5.hp.com"  "Darab Badiee"
 "deirdre@oxy.edu"  "Aimee"
 "demotc@iitmax.iit.edu"  "Terrance Curry"
 "dheeraj@cs.UMD.EDU"  "Dheeraj Sanghi"
 "don@oxy.edu"  "Don Goldberg"
 "dousti+@andrew.cmu.edu"  "Parviz Dousti"
 "dpb@Sun.COM"
 "dwunsch@blake.acs.washington.edu"  "Don Wunsch"
 "eederavi%pyramid.swansea.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK"  "Farzin Deravi"
 "eoy@PSUVM.PSU.EDU"  "ALI A. BEIHAGI"
 "esaffari@pyrthoth.pyramid.com"
 "esfand@homxc.att.com"
 "esfandia@frith.egr.msu.edu"
 "esmaeili@jupiter.nmt.edu"
 "essi@beachrat.EBay.Sun.COM"
 "farhad@Tehran.Stanford.EDU"  "Farhad Shakeri"
 "farhad@cwi.nl"  "Farhad Arbab"
 "farhangi@PURCCVM.BITNET"  "Anoushiravan Farhangi"
 "farid%thor.corp@sgi.com"
 "farokh@mips.com"
 "farrokh@pixel.cps.msu.edu"
 "farvar@cspl.src.umd.edu"  "Nariman Farvardin"
 "farzad@cbgrle.mit.edu"
 "fathy@ihlpa.att.com"
 "fati1@houxa.att.com"
 "gae%computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK"
 "galant@oxy.edu"
 "gil@banyan.banyan.com"  "Gilbert W. Pilz Jr."
 "golshan@hpindgr.hp.com"  "Ali Golshan"
 "gt2199a@prism.gatech.edu"  "Reza Ebrahimpour"
 "gt6384a@prism.gatech.edu"  "Ziba Derafshi"
 "ha@beach.cis.ufl.edu"  "Hossein Asghari"
 "hadjikhani@oxy.edu"
 "hakim@bigq.enet.dec.com"  "kamran Hakim"
 "hamid@eng.umd.edu"
 "hanan@cs.umr.edu"  "Hanan Lutfiyya"
 "harish@ECE.ORST.EDU"  "Harish Pillay"
 "hassan@beach.cis.ufl.edu"  "Hassan Maddahian"
 "hedayat@est.enet.dec.com"  "Kaynam Hedayat, ESTG CAD"
 "heidari@ei.ecn.purdue.edu"
 "hemmat@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu"  "M. Hemmat"
 "hf0@beach.cis.ufl.edu"  "Hooman Foroghi"
 "hmt@hcx.psu.edu"  "Habib Torab"
 "hojati@cadence.com"
 "hom@xlnvax.novell.com"
 "hra@csun1.cs.uga.edu"  "Hamid R. Arabnia"
 "hrafsanjani@axion.bt.co.uk"  "Hossein Rafsanjani"
 "hs@aloft.att.com"
 "huff@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu"
 "izadi@phao.eng.ohio-state.edu"  "Baback A. Izadi"
 "jafari@UWSTOUT.BITNET"
 "jambabe%hawks.esd@sgi.com"
 "jamshid@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.EDU"  "J. Naghizadeh"
 "jasbir@alpha.ces.cwru.edu"  "Jasbir Singh"
 "javad@houdi.att.com"
 "jdarvish@atc.boeing.com"
 "jeremy@milton.u.washington.edu"  "Jeremy York"
 "jnawaz%skat.usc.edu@usc.edu"  "Jemshed Nawaz"
 "jp@houtz.att.com"
 "kahn@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU"
 "kalbasi%TISL@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu"
 "kaminski@SCL.CWRU.Edu"  "Steve Kaminski"
 "kamvar@houem.att.com"
 "kasravi@mips.com"
 "kazim@jupiter.nmt.edu"  "Kazim Ozbaysal"
 "kean@cs.ubc.ca"  "Alex Kean"
 "keesh@cwi.nl"  "Kees van't Hoff"
 "kghaemi@lynx.northeastern.edu"
 "khakbaz_javad#ESP@comm.tandem.com"
 "khan@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu"  "Iqbal Mustafa Khan"
 "koochesfahan@sleepy.egr.msu.edu"
 "kourosh@rostam.Stanford.EDU"
 "kundu@YKTVMV.BITNET"  "Sandip Kundu"
 "kuntay@sol.boeing.com"
 "leadsv!hashemi@apple.com"
 "lee@cs.sfu.ca"  "Tim Lee"
 "liu@jupiter.nmt.edu"  "Gang Liu"
 "mack@portia.stanford.edu"  "Siamak Hashemi"
 "madabush@jupiter.nmt.edu"
 "mahbod_haleh#TSII@comm.tandem.com"
 "mahshid@admin.ldgo.columbia.edu"  "Mahshid Parsi"
 "mahtab@Sun.COM"
 "manglik@andy.bgsu.edu"  "Pankaj Manglik"
 "manizh@ra.src.umd.edu"  "Reza Shahidi"
 "marand%eagle@sgi.com"
 "mazimi%mipos2.intel.com@RELAY.CS.NET"  "Mani Azimi"
 "mbanan@atc.boeing.com"  "Mohsen Banan"
 "mcb@presto.ig.com"  "Michael C. Berch"
 "mdgramma@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu"
 "mercurio@oxy.edu"
 "mfd@houem.att.com"
 "mghaemi@lynx.northeastern.edu"
 "mikey@Eng.Sun.COM"
 "mm@speedy.att.com"
 "mmcon@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu"
 "mmm@philabs.philips.com"
 "moayeri@elbereth.rutgers.edu"
 "mohammad@hpclmp.hp.com"  "Mohammad Pourheidari"
 "mohsen@cspl.src.umd.edu"  "Mohsen Soroushnejad"
 "mohsenia%td2cad.intel.com@RELAY.CS.NET"  "manoochehr mohsenian"
 "mokhtar@cs.ubc.ca"  "Farzin Mokhtarian"
 "monnie@mike.bellcore.com"
 "morpho!jt@uunet.UU.NET"
 "morpho!mahnaz@uunet.UU.NET"
 "ms1@palmetto.cis.ufl.edu"  "Majid Shojaee"
 "mtf@homxc.att.com"
 "mtxinu!sybase!sneaky!marjan@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU"
 "mvs@hou2d.att.com"
 "na@beach.cis.ufl.edu"  "Nibal Aziz"
 "nader@darius.att.com"
 "najafi@ee.wpi.edu"
 "nasser@EBay.Sun.COM"
 "nayebi@eedsp.gatech.edu"
 "nd@hou2d.att.com"
 "neda@homxc.att.com"
 "nikki@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu"
 "nixtor!bahman@uunet.UU.NET"
 "npak@IBM.COM"
 "nvuxh!mhp@bellcore.bellcore.com"
 "nvuxr!fgh2@bellcore.bellcore.com"
 "oakhill!paco%devsys.com@cs.utexas.edu"  "Paco"
 "omead.amidi@IUS3.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU"
 "oracle!hqsun3.oracle.com!fnazem.US1.oramail@uunet.UU.NET"  "Farzad Nazem (Zod)"
 "osaeed@Sun.COM"
 "pacbell!pbhyg!balavi@decwrl.dec.com"
 "paitoon_tontiwachwuthikul@mtsg.ubc.ca"
 "pbseps!mehdi@decwrl.dec.com"
 "pegah@pleiades.cps.msu.edu"
 "pk@caen.engin.umich.edu"  "Payman Khalili"
 "pmoazami%hydra.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu"  "Panteha Moazami"
 "prabhu@amelia.nas.nasa.gov"  "Dinesh K. Prabhu"
 "r3bao@vax1.cc.uakron.edu"  "Bruce A. Orcutt"
 "ra0746@cec1.wustl.edu"
 "raeder@waltz.mpr.ca"  "Georg Raeder"
 "rafsarif@oracle.com"
 "raja@pixel.cps.msu.edu"  "Narayan Sriranga Raja"
 "rasti_mehrzad#COMM2@comm.tandem.com"
 "reddy@uts.amdahl.com"  "T.S.Reddy"
 "rege@rome.crd.ge.com"  "Amit Rege"
 "regier@cogsci.berkeley.edu"
 "rjg@swamp.cis.ufl.edu"  "Richard Greenhaigh"
 "robert@alfleila.inria.fr"
 "roskouy@Eng.Sun.COM"
 "rsl09@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu"
 "rsl13@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu"  "REZA HOSSEINMOSTAFA"
 "rzainali%cadev4.intel.com@RELAY.CS.NET"  "Roya Zainali"
 "sabzevar@ee.utah.edu"  "Cyrus Sabzevari"
 "sadeghi@oxy.edu"  "Behnam Sadeghi"
 "saeed@homxb.att.com"
 "saied@EBay.Sun.COM"
 "saiedb@Eng.Sun.COM"
 "sakhtar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU"
 "sasan@watsup.waterloo.edu"  "Sasan Soltani"
 "sdzj@CORNELLF.BITNET"  "Shahrokh Zargham"
 "senehi@cme.nist.gov"
 "shahin@ltp.GSFC.NASA.GOV"  "Shahin Samadi"
 "shahin@mn.ecn.purdue.edu"
 "shahram@cs.wisc.edu"
 "shahrzad@cwi.nl"  "Shahrzad"
 "shamsnia@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu"  "Saeed Shamsnia"
 "shiva@cs.UMD.EDU"  "Shiva Azadegan"
 "siadati@jupiter.nmt.edu"
 "sigma!bill@uunet.UU.NET"  "Bill Swan"
 "ska@feathers.att.com"
 "smz@beach.cis.ufl.edu"  "Sied Zarrinsaray"
 "soheila@Tops.Sun.COM"
 "sophocle@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu"  "Marios Sophocleous"
 "sp0618@cec1.wustl.edu"  "Saeed Pirooz"
 "spenser%ficc@uunet.UU.NET"  "S. Spenser Aden"
 "srinath@unix.cis.pitt.edu"  "Srinath Viswanathan"
 "srouhani@GTRI01.BITNET"
 "sta@drutx.att.com"
 "suresh@eniac.seas.upenn.edu"
 "talebi@csdpie.enet.dec.com"  "Kamran"
 "talebi@model.enet.dec.com"  "Kayhan Talebi"
 "taleghani@hydra.enet.dec.com"  "Bardia Taleghani"
 "tavakoli@caen.engin.umich.edu"
 "tehrani@caen.engin.umich.edu"
 "timber@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu"
 "tk@ee-sol.STANFORD.EDU"
 "torab@frith.egr.msu.edu"
 "towfiq%interlan.Interlan.COM@RELAY.CS.NET"  "Mark Towfigh"
 "troly@math.ucla.edu"  "Bret Jolly"
 "ty1036@mars.njit.edu"
 "u12158@ux.ncsa.uiuc.edu"
 "unhd!szh@uunet.UU.NET"  "Syed Z. Hussaini"
 "usac3@usac3.Corp.Sun.COM"
 "vahid@cosmos.net.com"
 "var@East.Sun.COM"
 "vhesany%ece@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu"
 "vma@wpi.wpi.edu"  "Vahid Motevalli"
 "wraith@oxy.edu"
 "xanadu!STella@uunet.UU.NET"
 "yssss@SCFVM.BITNET"  "sepehri"
 "zeddies@oxy.edu"

 Negative ("no") votes:

 "bjb%ncrorl%ncrlnk.dayton.ncr.com@RELAY.CS.NET"
 "bob@omni.com"   "Bob Weissman"
 "charleen@ads.com"  "Charleen Bunjiovianna"
 "chinacat.Lonestar.ORG!chip@cs.utexas.edu"   "Chip Rosenthal"
 "chk%alias@csri.toronto.edu"  "C. Harald Koch"
 "cje@elbereth.rutgers.edu"   "Chris Jarocha-Ernst"
 "ctuel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU"  "Cliff Tuel"
 "d88-jwa@nada.kth.se"
 "d88-sli@nada.kth.se"  "Stefan"
 "dewey@cedar.execu.com"   "Dewey Henize"
 "edbailey@walt.cc.utexas.edu"   "Ed Bailey"
 "fischer%utower.gopas.sub.org@RELAY.CS.NET"  "Axel Fischer"
 "heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com"   "Ron Heiby"
 "howard@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM"
 "jjc@unix.cis.pitt.edu"  "Jeffrey James Bryan Carpenter"
 "jld@iwtng.att.com"
 "jrp%rducky.uucp@uunet.uu.net"   "Jim Pickering"
 "jrt@pbhyf.PacBell.COM"
 "kuhns@oxy.edu"
 "laba-4eg@WEB.berkeley.edu"
 "larryr@cs.umr.edu"  "Larry Reeves"
 "mehuld@apee.ogi.edu"  "Mehul Dave"
 "mholtz%sactoh0.uucp@uunet.uu.net"
 "newsadm@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov"  "System News Administrator"
 "nih-csl!elsie!ado@uunet.UU.NET"  "Arthur David Olson, ado@alw.nih.gov"
 "rick@pavlov.bcm.tmc.edu"  "Richard H. Miller"
 "riiali@lut.fi"  "Pekka Riiali"
 "roche@cs.rochester.edu"  "Jim Roche"
 "t_pascal@oxy.edu"  "T. Pascal"
 "wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu"  "Bill Wisner"

 M. Hemmat,
 Vote-taker