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From oguocha@sask.usask.ca Mon May 16 21:48:29 1994
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From: oguocha@sask.usask.ca (I. Oguocha)
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Introduction
============
This message is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) on a new newsgroup,
soc.culture.nigeria, as required by the USENET guidelines on creation of a
new newsgroup. Please, feel free to distribute this RFD to any other groups
or mailing lists to which it may seem relevant. Discussion will take place
on news.groups. Therefore, all follow-up posts should be posted to news.groups.
Initial suggestions for the group charter, status, rules, etc are given below.
These suggestions are subject to change and review. Anyone interested in this
proposal is encouraged to participate in the discussion.
Newsgroup Name:
===============
soc.culture.nigeria
Charter
=======
The proposed soc.culture.nigeria is meant to be a free forum for all
discussions, debates, and information about Nigeria and her peoples.
Therefore, Nigerians within and without Nigeria and friends of Nigeria
all over the world or everyone interested in Nigeria, irrespective of
nationality or language, are welcome to participate.
Postings can cover any topic of choice provided it has something to do with
Nigeria. This means all social, cultural, political, musical, historical,
geographical, scientific, marital, technical, legal, and other topics that
are, in one way or another, related to Nigeria or Nigerians. Postings can
also include news, opinions, observations, humor, announcements, or requests.
If it has anything to do with Nigeria, it can be discussed. Further, it is
hoped that soc.culture.nigeria will be a useful means of contact for Nigerians
all over the world.
Background And Rationale
========================
Nigeria is a nation of many nations, with over 250 identified distinct ethnic
groups. It is estimated that one out of every four Africans is a Nigerian. It is
also estimated that there are over 4 million Nigerians living outside Nigeria
today. At present, apart from soc.culture.african, there are few mailing lists
serving Nigerians abroad. Some are interest specific. This means then that if a
Nigerian or a person interested in Nigeria should subscribe to all these list-
servers, that person's disc quota will be continually exceeded leading to hig-
her costs and agonizing inconveniences. Some of the mailing lists generate more
than 50 mails per day during the peak seasons and requests to join them are
growing day by day. Further, requests about Nigerian newsgroup continually
appear on soc.culture.african thereby showing that a need exists for a
USENET-based newsgroup for Nigeria.
The proposed soc.culture.nigeria newsgroup is in no way intended as a substit-
ute to soc.culture.african or any of the existing mailing lists, neither is it
meant to compete with them. Rather, it is to serve more as a shock absorber or
relief valve to these linguistically and interest-specific defined groups. It
is going to complement soc.culture.african. In the new newsgroup, Nigerians
and non-Nigerians of all tongues can discuss issues specific to Nigeria without
wading through unending mails, some of which are not of interest to the persons.
In addition, a proper newsgroup about Nigeria will be less confusing to a
novice USENET reader who wants to find information about Nigeria or peoples of
Nigeria regardless of their language. It will afford many USENET readers the
opportunity to interact with Nigerians and enjoy the diversity of Nigerian cul-
tures. Therefore, the official creation of soc.culture.nigeria in accordance
with the agreed USENET procedures will facilitate access for people all over
the world to information about Nigeria, not the least for Nigerians themselves
scattered all over the world who are very eager to know what is happening at
home.
Status and Rules
================
Soc.culture.nigeria will be an unmoderated newsgroup, unless posters to a
future soc.culture.nigeria decide to make it a moderated one according to
the agreed USENET procedures. Therefore, anyone will be able to post to this
newsgroup. However, being free to post should be considered a previlige and not
a right. Hence, junk, hate, sexist, racial, and cross-posted articles will be
strongly discouraged. Most importantly, everyone should be responsible for what
one posts. Please, respect the secularity of Nigeria. Neither christianity nor
islam is Nigeria's official religion. So, for peace and tranquility over rel-
igious matters, religious articles which may cause disconcord amongst posters
are strongly discouraged.
All articles posted should have something to do with Nigeria or the peoples
living therein, however remotely. Insults, "flames" or unnecessary criticism of
a group or a person is strongly discouraged. Remember, a flame begets flames and
it is better not to start one at all. Please read the netiquette rules in
news.announce.newusers before posting your first article to this newsgroup, and
endeavor to stick to them whenever posting articles. And if you must flame,
please take it to e-mail and respect the privacy of your correspondent(s).
Finally, do not post any unlawful article/information to soc.culture.nigeria.
Any one who does this is doing it at his/her own personal risk.
Languages
=========
Any of Nigeria's 250 languages, Pidgin, and English. Postings in languages
other than these are welcome provided that the English translations of the
articles are provided, because English is Nigeria's official language. When
necessary, Nigerians are encouraged to provide English translations to articles
written in vernacular.
Character Sets
==============
Articles should be sent in the normal 7 bit ASCII character set, conform
to RFC822. If accented characters are necessary (as we have in Yoruba, Igbo,
Efik, Ibibio, etc) one is allowed to use the standard 8 bit ISO-8859-1 character
set. Other language- or machine-specific character sets are not acceptable in
this newsgroup. Please, check with your system admin before posting any
article.
Discussions:
============
Discussions on soc.culture.nigeria will last 30 days. Revised RFD will be
posted after 14 days. It will reflect all suggestions and opinions you
provide during the discussion which may warrant a second RFD. After 30 days
a call for votes (CFV), carried out by a neutral body, will follow. This RFD
is being posted in accordance with the guidelines set in the "How to Create
a New Usenet Newsgroup." Please refer to this article if you have any ques-
tions about the newsgroup creation process.
This RFD has been cross-posted to the folowing newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups
soc.culture.african
and copied to the following mailing lists:
naijanet@mit.edu
ana@quincy.med.harvard.edu
Remember, all comments should be directed to: news.groups. Thank you for
participating.
Oguocha, I. (Proponent)
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From peterb@telerama.lm.com Tue Jun 21 14:40:44 1994
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From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger)
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Subject: CFV: soc.culture.nigeria
Date: 21 Jun 1994 10:40:52 -0400
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FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
unmoderated group soc.culture.nigeria
Newsgroups line:
soc.culture.nigeria Nigerian affairs, society, cultures, and peoples.
Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 12 July 1994.
This CFV will also be posted to the Nigerian network
<naijanet@mit.edu> and Association of Nigerians Abroad (ANA)
<ana@quincy.med.harvard.edu> mailing lists.
This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. For voting
questions only contact Peter G. Berger, Esq. <peterb@telerama.lm.com>.
For questions about the proposed group contact I. Oguocha
<oguocha@sask.usask.ca>.
Charter
=======
The proposed soc.culture.nigeria is meant to be a free forum
for all discussions, debates, and information about Nigeria and her
peoples. Therefore, Nigerians within and without Nigeria and friends
of Nigeria all over the world or everyone interested in Nigeria,
irrespective of nationality or language, are welcome to participate.
Postings can cover any topic of choice provided it has something to do
with Nigeria. This means all social, cultural, political, musical,
historical, geographical, scientific, marital, technical, legal, and
other topics that are, in one way or another, related to Nigeria or
Nigerians. Postings can also include news, opinions, observations,
humor, announcements, or requests. If it has anything to do with
Nigeria, it can be discussed.
Background And Rationale
========================
Nigeria is a nation of many nations, with over 250 identified distinct
ethnic groups. It is estimated that one out of every four Africans is
a Nigerian. It is also estimated that there are over 4 million
Nigerians living outside Nigeria today. At present, apart from
soc.culture.african, there are few mailing lists serving Nigerians
abroad. Some are interest specific. This implies that if a Nigerian or
a person interested in Nigeria should subscribe to all these
listservers, that person's disk quota will be continually exceeded
leading to higher costs and agonizing inconveniences. Some of the
mailing lists generate more than 50 mails per day during the peak
seasons and requests to join them are growing day by day. Further,
requests about Nigerian newsgroup continually appear on
soc.culture.african thereby showing that a need exists for a
USENET-based newsgroup for Nigeria.
The proposed soc.culture.nigeria newsgroup is in no way intended as a
substitute to soc.culture.african or any of the existing mailing
lists, neither is it meant to compete with them. Rather, it is to
serve more as a shock absorber or relief valve to these linguistically
and interest-specific defined groups. It is going to complement
soc.culture.african. In the proposed newsgroup, Nigerians and
non-Nigerians of all tongues can discuss issues specific to Nigeria
without wading through unending mails, some of which are not of
interest to the persons. In addition, a publicly accessible newsgroup
about Nigeria will be less confusing to a novice USENET reader who
wants to find information about Nigeria or Nigerians regardless of
their language. It will afford many USENET readers the opportunity to
interact with Nigerians and enjoy the diversity of Nigerian cultures.
Therefore, the official creation of soc.culture.nigeria in accordance
with the agreed USENET procedures will facilitate access for people
all over the world to information about Nigeria, not the least for
Nigerians themselves scattered all over the world who are very eager
to know what is happening at home.
Status and Rules
================
Soc.culture.nigeria shall be an unmoderated newsgroup. Therefore,
anyone will be able to post to this newsgroup. However, being free to
post should be considered a privilege and not a right. Hence, junk,
hate, sexist, racial, and cross-posted articles will be strongly
discouraged. Most importantly, everyone is responsible for what one
posts. Please, respect the secularity of Nigeria. Neither
christianity nor islam nor any religion whatsoever is Nigeria's
official religion. So, for peace and tranquility over religious
matters, religious articles which may cause disconcord amongst
posters are strongly discouraged.
All articles posted must have something to do with Nigeria or the
peoples living therein, however remotely. Insults, flames or
unnecessary criticism of a group or a person is strongly discouraged.
Remember, a flame begets a multitude of counter flames. Therefore,
it is better not to start one at all. But if you must flame, please
take it to e-mail and respect the privacy of your correspondent(s).
Please, read the netiquette rules in news.announce.newusers before
posting your first article to this newsgroup, and endeavor to stick to
them whenever posting articles. Finally, do not post any unlawful or
prohibited article/information to soc.culture.nigeria. Any one who
does this is doing it at his/her own personal risk.
Languages
=========
Any of Nigeria's 250 languages, Pidgin, and English. Postings in
languages other than these are welcome provided that the English
translations of the articles are provided, because English is
Nigeria's official language. When necessary, Nigerians are encouraged
to provide English translations to articles written in vernacular.
Character Sets
==============
Articles should be sent in the standard 7 bit ASCII character set,
conform to RFC822. If accented characters are necessary (as we have in
Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Ibibio, etc) one is allowed to use the standard 8
bit ISO-8859-1 character set. Other language or machine-specific
character sets are not acceptable in this newsgroup.
HOW TO VOTE
Send MAIL to: vote@telerama.lm.com
Just Replying should work if you are not reading this on a mailing list.
Your mail message should contain one of the following statements:
I vote YES on soc.culture.nigeria
I vote NO on soc.culture.nigeria
You may also ABSTAIN in place of YES/NO - this will not affect the outcome.
Anything else may be rejected by the automatic vote counting program. The
votetaker will respond to your received ballots with a personal acknowledge-
ment by mail - if you do not receive one within several days, try again.
It's your responsibility to make sure your vote is registered correctly.
Only one vote per person, no more than one vote per account. Addresses and
votes of all voters will be published in the final voting results list.
From peterb@telerama.lm.com Tue Jul 12 15:06:59 1994
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From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.african.american,soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: 2nd CFV: soc.culture.nigeria
Date: 12 Jul 1994 13:53:32 -0400
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SECOND CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
unmoderated group soc.culture.nigeria
Newsgroups line:
soc.culture.nigeria Nigerian affairs, society, cultures, and peoples.
Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 12 July 1994.
This CFV will also be posted to the Nigerian network
<naijanet@mit.edu> and Association of Nigerians Abroad (ANA)
<ana@quincy.med.harvard.edu> mailing lists.
This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. For voting
questions only contact Peter G. Berger, Esq. <peterb@telerama.lm.com>.
For questions about the proposed group contact I. Oguocha
<oguocha@sask.usask.ca>.
Charter
=======
The proposed soc.culture.nigeria is meant to be a free forum
for all discussions, debates, and information about Nigeria and her
peoples. Therefore, Nigerians within and without Nigeria and friends
of Nigeria all over the world or everyone interested in Nigeria,
irrespective of nationality or language, are welcome to participate.
Postings can cover any topic of choice provided it has something to do
with Nigeria. This means all social, cultural, political, musical,
historical, geographical, scientific, marital, technical, legal, and
other topics that are, in one way or another, related to Nigeria or
Nigerians. Postings can also include news, opinions, observations,
humor, announcements, or requests. If it has anything to do with
Nigeria, it can be discussed.
Background And Rationale
========================
Nigeria is a nation of many nations, with over 250 identified distinct
ethnic groups. It is estimated that one out of every four Africans is
a Nigerian. It is also estimated that there are over 4 million
Nigerians living outside Nigeria today. At present, apart from
soc.culture.african, there are few mailing lists serving Nigerians
abroad. Some are interest specific. This implies that if a Nigerian or
a person interested in Nigeria should subscribe to all these
listservers, that person's disk quota will be continually exceeded
leading to higher costs and agonizing inconveniences. Some of the
mailing lists generate more than 50 mails per day during the peak
seasons and requests to join them are growing day by day. Further,
requests about Nigerian newsgroup continually appear on
soc.culture.african thereby showing that a need exists for a
USENET-based newsgroup for Nigeria.
The proposed soc.culture.nigeria newsgroup is in no way intended as a
substitute to soc.culture.african or any of the existing mailing
lists, neither is it meant to compete with them. Rather, it is to
serve more as a shock absorber or relief valve to these linguistically
and interest-specific defined groups. It is going to complement
soc.culture.african. In the proposed newsgroup, Nigerians and
non-Nigerians of all tongues can discuss issues specific to Nigeria
without wading through unending mails, some of which are not of
interest to the persons. In addition, a publicly accessible newsgroup
about Nigeria will be less confusing to a novice USENET reader who
wants to find information about Nigeria or Nigerians regardless of
their language. It will afford many USENET readers the opportunity to
interact with Nigerians and enjoy the diversity of Nigerian cultures.
Therefore, the official creation of soc.culture.nigeria in accordance
with the agreed USENET procedures will facilitate access for people
all over the world to information about Nigeria, not the least for
Nigerians themselves scattered all over the world who are very eager
to know what is happening at home.
Status and Rules
================
Soc.culture.nigeria shall be an unmoderated newsgroup. Therefore,
anyone will be able to post to this newsgroup. However, being free to
post should be considered a privilege and not a right. Hence, junk,
hate, sexist, racial, and cross-posted articles will be strongly
discouraged. Most importantly, everyone is responsible for what one
posts. Please, respect the secularity of Nigeria. Neither
christianity nor islam nor any religion whatsoever is Nigeria's
official religion. So, for peace and tranquility over religious
matters, religious articles which may cause disconcord amongst
posters are strongly discouraged.
All articles posted must have something to do with Nigeria or the
peoples living therein, however remotely. Insults, flames or
unnecessary criticism of a group or a person is strongly discouraged.
Remember, a flame begets a multitude of counter flames. Therefore,
it is better not to start one at all. But if you must flame, please
take it to e-mail and respect the privacy of your correspondent(s).
Please, read the netiquette rules in news.announce.newusers before
posting your first article to this newsgroup, and endeavor to stick to
them whenever posting articles. Finally, do not post any unlawful or
prohibited article/information to soc.culture.nigeria. Any one who
does this is doing it at his/her own personal risk.
Languages
=========
Any of Nigeria's 250 languages, Pidgin, and English. Postings in
languages other than these are welcome provided that the English
translations of the articles are provided, because English is
Nigeria's official language. When necessary, Nigerians are encouraged
to provide English translations to articles written in vernacular.
Character Sets
==============
Articles should be sent in the standard 7 bit ASCII character set,
conform to RFC822. If accented characters are necessary (as we have in
Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Ibibio, etc) one is allowed to use the standard 8
bit ISO-8859-1 character set. Other language or machine-specific
character sets are not acceptable in this newsgroup.
HOW TO VOTE
Send MAIL to: vote@telerama.lm.com
Just Replying should work if you are not reading this on a mailing list.
Your mail message should contain one of the following statements:
I vote YES on soc.culture.nigeria
I vote NO on soc.culture.nigeria
You may also ABSTAIN in place of YES/NO - this will not affect the outcome.
Anything else may be rejected by the automatic vote counting program. The
votetaker will respond to your received ballots with a personal acknowledge-
ment by mail - if you do not receive one within several days, try again.
It's your responsibility to make sure your vote is registered correctly.
Only one vote per person, no more than one vote per account. Addresses and
votes of all voters will be published in the final voting results list.
From peterb@telerama.lm.com Thu Jul 28 17:28:10 1994
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From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.african.american,soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: RESULT: soc.culture.nigeria passes 267:17
Supersedes: <soc.culture.nigeria-CFV2@uunet.uu.net>
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unmoderated group soc.culture.nigeria passes 267:17
There were 267 YES votes and 17 NO votes, for a total of 284 valid votes.
There was 1 abstain and 12 invalid ballots.
For group passage, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all valid (YES and NO)
votes. There also must be at least 100 more YES votes than NO votes.
There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted. If no
serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the moderator of
news.announce.newgroups will create the group shortly thereafter.
Charter
=======
The proposed soc.culture.nigeria is meant to be a free forum
for all discussions, debates, and information about Nigeria and her
peoples. Therefore, Nigerians within and without Nigeria and friends
of Nigeria all over the world or everyone interested in Nigeria,
irrespective of nationality or language, are welcome to participate.
Postings can cover any topic of choice provided it has something to do
with Nigeria. This means all social, cultural, political, musical,
historical, geographical, scientific, marital, technical, legal, and
other topics that are, in one way or another, related to Nigeria or
Nigerians. Postings can also include news, opinions, observations,
humor, announcements, or requests. If it has anything to do with
Nigeria, it can be discussed.
Background And Rationale
========================
Nigeria is a nation of many nations, with over 250 identified distinct
ethnic groups. It is estimated that one out of every four Africans is
a Nigerian. It is also estimated that there are over 4 million
Nigerians living outside Nigeria today. At present, apart from
soc.culture.african, there are few mailing lists serving Nigerians
abroad. Some are interest specific. This implies that if a Nigerian or
a person interested in Nigeria should subscribe to all these
listservers, that person's disk quota will be continually exceeded
leading to higher costs and agonizing inconveniences. Some of the
mailing lists generate more than 50 mails per day during the peak
seasons and requests to join them are growing day by day. Further,
requests about Nigerian newsgroup continually appear on
soc.culture.african thereby showing that a need exists for a
USENET-based newsgroup for Nigeria.
The proposed soc.culture.nigeria newsgroup is in no way intended as a
substitute to soc.culture.african or any of the existing mailing
lists, neither is it meant to compete with them. Rather, it is to
serve more as a shock absorber or relief valve to these linguistically
and interest-specific defined groups. It is going to complement
soc.culture.african. In the proposed newsgroup, Nigerians and
non-Nigerians of all tongues can discuss issues specific to Nigeria
without wading through unending mails, some of which are not of
interest to the persons. In addition, a publicly accessible newsgroup
about Nigeria will be less confusing to a novice USENET reader who
wants to find information about Nigeria or Nigerians regardless of
their language. It will afford many USENET readers the opportunity to
interact with Nigerians and enjoy the diversity of Nigerian cultures.
Therefore, the official creation of soc.culture.nigeria in accordance
with the agreed USENET procedures will facilitate access for people
all over the world to information about Nigeria, not the least for
Nigerians themselves scattered all over the world who are very eager
to know what is happening at home.
Status and Rules
================
Soc.culture.nigeria shall be an unmoderated newsgroup. Therefore,
anyone will be able to post to this newsgroup. However, being free to
post should be considered a privilege and not a right. Hence, junk,
hate, sexist, racial, and cross-posted articles will be strongly
discouraged. Most importantly, everyone is responsible for what one
posts. Please, respect the secularity of Nigeria. Neither
christianity nor islam nor any religion whatsoever is Nigeria's
official religion. So, for peace and tranquility over religious
matters, religious articles which may cause disconcord amongst
posters are strongly discouraged.
All articles posted must have something to do with Nigeria or the
peoples living therein, however remotely. Insults, flames or
unnecessary criticism of a group or a person is strongly discouraged.
Remember, a flame begets a multitude of counter flames. Therefore,
it is better not to start one at all. But if you must flame, please
take it to e-mail and respect the privacy of your correspondent(s).
Please, read the netiquette rules in news.announce.newusers before
posting your first article to this newsgroup, and endeavor to stick to
them whenever posting articles. Finally, do not post any unlawful or
prohibited article/information to soc.culture.nigeria. Any one who
does this is doing it at his/her own personal risk.
Languages
=========
Any of Nigeria's 250 languages, Pidgin, and English. Postings in
languages other than these are welcome provided that the English
translations of the articles are provided, because English is
Nigeria's official language. When necessary, Nigerians are encouraged
to provide English translations to articles written in vernacular.
Character Sets
==============
Articles should be sent in the standard 7 bit ASCII character set,
conform to RFC822. If accented characters are necessary (as we have in
Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Ibibio, etc) one is allowed to use the standard 8
bit ISO-8859-1 character set. Other language or machine-specific
character sets are not acceptable in this newsgroup.
soc.culture.nigeria Final Vote Ack
Voted Yes
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abi@sparc.sws.uiuc.edu Abi Akanbi
aboyade@cs690-3.erie.ge.com O.J. Aboyade
AC00MICH@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU Michael S. Sekoni (X8593) PROFS (MSS)
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achan921@raven.csrv.uidaho.edu Achana Francis
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adc@acpub.duke.edu Akobuije Douglas Chijioke
ADENIYI.AKANNI@usask.ca
adewalen@daisy.siue.edu Nicole Adewale
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ADM_MUSA@gallua.gallaudet.edu Larry Musa @ Intl. Students Services
ADZANU@sask.usask.ca
ae446@freenet.carleton.ca Nigel Allen
aenwachu@MIT.EDU
AFOLAYAN@macc.wisc.edu Michael Afolayan
agc@drmail.dr.att.com Godwill Chima Akotaobi
aiyo@uoguelph.ca Abiye Iyo
Akli.Gana@att.com
ako1@columbia.edu Anselm Kelechi Okwu
akubeze@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu O Peter Akubeze
alabi@herald.usask.ca Adetayo Alabi
Ali_Abedian@engr.usask.ca
Allan_B_Johnson@engr.usask.ca Allan B Johnson
ambr@midway.uchicago.edu christopher soren ambrose
Anthony_C_Osude.Wbst311@xerox.com
anwokoye@acad.umass.edu ANNE R NWOKOYE
aogunye@dow.com Ayowale Ogunye
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aq992@freenet.carleton.ca Taju Abdela
ault@cs.albany.edu Jim Ault
aun651@cscgpo.anu.edu.au
AUONDP@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
awduche@kira.ecs.umass.edu Daniel O Awduche
AWOPETUO@CWU.EDU NIYI AWOPETU
azu@manta.nosc.mil Charles C. Azu
B.Ayorinde@cs.ucl.ac.uk Abiodun
B0XM@unb.ca AGI B
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badmus@licchus1.ae.gatech.edu badmus
BANDELE@delphi.com Kwame Akono Bandele
bankole.adams@usask.ca
basil@fidac.Helsinki.FI Basil Eneh
bassey@medici.ils.nwu.edu Pamay Bassey
BC70156%BINGVAXA.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU USRNAME
BHCQ@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA The unrepentant Farafina
bjv@herbison.com B.J. Herbison
bmisawa+@pitt.edu Buba N Misawa
bn293@cleveland.Freenet.Edu Douglas P. Shannon
bnaren@ece.ucdavis.edu Naren B.
bolutade@magtwo.gatech.edu Bolaji Laja Olutade
bspencer@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca Brian SPENCER
b_duke@lacebark.ntu.edu.au
C.J.Lawson@cranfield.ac.uk
cabbott@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Charles Abbott
CADS_COLE@gallua.gallaudet.edu
CAVERS@sscl.uwo.ca
ceokoli@acs.ucalgary.ca Chinyeaka Emmanuel Okoli
Charles.Orbih@Eng.Sun.COM Charles Orbih
CHATTOPADHYG@sask.usask.ca
CHIDAMBARAM@Meena.CC.URegina.CA
Chris.O.Osinubi@att.com
chuk75n@camelot.bradley.edu Nigeria (WC '94)
clsteven@mcs.com Craig L. Stevenson
CNE1@OAS.PSU.EDU EGBELU.CAROLINE
cofoma@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu Chichi Ofoma
council@luna.cas.usf.edu M. Council
ctwilson@acs.harding.edu
D7EG@unb.ca AJISEBUTU A
dacey@crl.com Peter Campbell
DAFOLABI@ucs.indiana.edu
daniel@ii.uib.no
davemil@merle.acns.nwu.edu
deji.oyewole@his.com
df910@cleveland.Freenet.Edu Kregg T Brooks
DHARMASRI@sask.usask.ca
dianazon@leland.Stanford.EDU copacetic fig for life
div047@aberdeen.ac.uk
djakman@fwi.uva.nl Kemal Djakman
djones@wscgate.wsc.edu
dobadina@empros.com Diran Obadina
donald.ekong@usask.ca
donatus@surya.UWaterloo.ca Donatus Oguamanam
dozie@sunrise.sli.unimelb.edu.au Dozie Ezigbalike
E.O.Olowo-Okere@sl1.bath.ac.uk E Olowo-Okere
E51ROSA@sask.usask.ca
E52RAPHAEL@sask.usask.ca
E54ODIGBOH@sask.usask.ca
eameh@acs.ucalgary.ca
earadeon@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Eric Dewole Aradeon
easmvan@ube.ubalt.edu Vanessa Graham
ebabatun@ccat.sas.upenn.edu Elegbede Babatunde A.
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eco6110@inxs.uta.edu SIR LANCE A LOT
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ElizabethS@NWFS.GSE.upenn.edu
en1@ME.MsState.Edu
eonuegbe@hpodb01.cup.hp.com Emmanuel Onuegbe
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eyinjesu@nwscb.att.com
fagade@mgmt.umass.edu
FAHM%UDCVM.BITNET@VTBIT.CC.VT.EDU Hakeem P. Fahm
famenkhi@ruacad.ac.runet.edu
FASINA@sask.usask.ca
femibyte@MIT.EDU
francis@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU Francis C Ogbonnaya
GA.DDG@ISUMVS.IASTATE.EDU
GANA@sask.usask.ca
gbosch@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu
gerald@diamond.tamu.edu Gerald Emesih
GerParker@aol.com
gil@cc.gatech.edu Gil Neiger
giorgos@cs.rochester.edu
guav41@udcf.gla.ac.uk Peter Oyelere
h9190283@hkuxa.hku.hk MOHAMMED SHUAIBU NDACHE
h9293190@hkuxa.hku.hk Kazi Hassan Imam
h9351583@idefix.wu-wien.ac.at John Dunlevy
h9390134@hkusub.hku.hk Islam Md. Shahidul
HIST1E@Jetson.UH.EDU
hkj@dhi.dk Hakeem Johnson
HOGANA@CIVIL.Lan.McGill.CA Hogan Antia
H_Chen@engr.usask.ca H Chen
I.Ayomidele@sheffield.ac.uk Isaac Ayomidele
IAGBOOLA@gallua.gallaudet.edu
IDEM@sask.usask.ca
iebong@uriacc.uri.edu Imeh D. Ebong
ify@hoqud.att.com A Ifeanyi Uzoka +1 908 949 8685
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Kevin_Mack@engr.usask.ca Kevin Mack
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lodozor@epas.utoronto.ca odozor
M.R.Wilkinson@bnr.co.uk
M2M@eclx.psu.edu
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NOU10@phx.cam.ac.uk
nseddigh@bnr.ca nabil (n.) seddigh
NWANKWO0448@duq3.cc.duq.edu
oa09+@andrew.cmu.edu Olushola L. Adeyeye
oad@phoenix.oulu.fi Olayele Adelakun
OBI@urvax.urich.edu
OGUEJIOFORC@sask.usask.ca
OGUNGBADERO@A1.TCH.HARVARD.EDU Akinola N. Ogungbadero 735-7886
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ogunyemi@gradient.cis.upenn.edu Omolola Ogunyemi
OGUOCHA@sask.usask.ca
ojo@unixg.ubc.ca Abiodun Ojo
okeke@nevada.edu CHARLES OKEKE
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OPOKU@sask.usask.ca
oria0001@gold.tc.umn.edu Caleb A Oriade
oshinow@flow.chem-eng.utoronto.ca Lanre Oshinowo
osinubi@cbnewsg.att.com
ouchendu@mtu.edu onwuka uchendu
OWOPUTI@sask.usask.ca
oyedejik@mhous2.morehouse.uucp@mathcs.emory.edu
pec088@aberdeen.ac.uk
pnta@quincy.med.harvard.edu Patrick Nta
quinn@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Michael J. Quinn
RADJABI@sask.usask.ca
raluko@uoguelph.ca Rotimi E Aluko
rhoney@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Rex Honey
rmsylte@uci.edu Ruth M. Sylte
rohan@nmrc.ucc.ie Michael Rohan
rotimi@empros.com Rotimi Gbadamosi
rufinus@cae.wisc.edu
ruggles@lab314.geography.uiowa.edu AJR
SAAST8@vms.cis.pitt.edu THE PRINCE
SAHA@sask.usask.ca
SAKU@sask.usask.ca
samjay@nic.funet.fi Sammy Jayeola
Samuel.Ajila@loria.fr Samuel Adesoye Ajila
Samuel.Akpan@lambada.oit.unc.edu Samuel Akpan
Sawzall@chop.isca.uiowa.edu K Hanna
scrivner@seismo.gps.caltech.edu
shimada@geo.dges.tohoku.ac.jp Shimada
sjb5q@poe.acc.virginia.edu Sol Joseph Bermann
sssenok@cuhk.hk Solomon Senok
SVABC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Stephen Aja
szqansy@dale.ucdavis.edu
t-nosao@microsoft.com Nosa Omoigui
TADAYYON@sask.usask.ca
taiwan@panix.com Obi Taiwan
tbishop@empros.com Tom Bishop
tesfaye@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Tarik Ono-Tesfaye
TEX5OJA@WEST-01.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK TEX5OJA
TMGNY@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Tunde M. Giwa
to4x@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu Tejumola Olaniyan
tokunbo@skat.usc.edu Tokunbo Labisi
tom@marais.math.lsu.edu Michael M. Tom
tony_alabi@rainbow.mentorg.com Tony Alabi
TOWHIDKHAH@sask.usask.ca
Trent_J_Cherry@engr.usask.ca Trent J Cherry
tuff@geology.wisc.edu Teufelin Peare
uakano@julian.uwo.ca u.g. akano
ucogbuef@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu Zoby Ogbuefi
ukachkwc@topi.cig.mot.com Christian E. Ukachukw
Uzo.Onyemaechi@um.cc.umich.edu
UZONNA@sask.usask.ca
vaina@sfu.ca Victor Aina
verdier@enserb.u-bordeaux.fr
vida@lust vida
wale@taz.ho.att.com Akinwale A Akinpelu
wb@roka.de Wilhelm Buehler
wcochra@netcom.com Wendy Ellen Cochran
yakubut@hpcvnu.cv.hp.com Yakubu_Tor-Agbidye
Voted No
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blair@mksol.dseg.ti.com arthur blair
bson@ai.mit.edu Jan Brittenson
cjackson@csugrad.cs.vt.edu Chris 'PGP is neato' Jackson
crouchkp@flidh102.delcoelect.com
eab@msc.edu Edward Bertsch
fsspr@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu Sean P. Ryan
jrm@globalvillag.com John R. MacWilliamson
julian@bongo.tele.com Julian Macassey
Kari.Hurtta@fmi.fi Kari E. Hurtta
mad5c@server.cs.virginia.edu
mhatz@cscns.com Mike Hatz
mmt@RedBrick.COM Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS
rick@bcm.tmc.edu Richard H. Miller
smarry@turing.toronto.edu Smarasderagd
stainles@bga.com Dwight Brown
vpnet!vpnet!vagrant@quake.xnet.com
WARD@bert.van.forintek.ca Ward F. Bush
Abstained
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gekpe@waite.adelaide.edu.au Grace Ekpe
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kakhua@aston.ac.uk A.KAKHU
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mlawrenc@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu M. Lawrence
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namdi@wam.umd.edu .
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From ajose@ifu.net Tue Jul 16 18:40:24 1996
Path: uunet!bounce-back
From: Alfred Ajose <ajose@ifu.net>
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.nigeria,soc.culture.zimbabwe,soc.culture.sierra-leone
Subject: RFD: moderate soc.culture.nigeria
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Date: 16 Jul 1996 22:40:14 -0000
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REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
moderated group soc.culture.nigeria (moderates existing group)
Newgroup line:
soc.culture.nigeria Nigerian culture, peoples, and affairs (moderated)
RATIONALE: soc.culture.nigeria
Soc.culture.nigeria was created in 1994 as an unmoderated newsgroup to
discuss issues pertaining to Nigeria and her peoples. In recent times,
off-topic posts have started to infest it. Initially, it was thought
that contacting the posters of these articles could help control the
influx of off-topic and massively cross-posted articles. Such effort
has failed to curtail the number of these posts. The regular readers
have requested that it be moderated to remove off-topic articles.
CHARTER: soc.culture.nigeria
Soc.culture.nigeria is a moderated forum for all discussions, debates,
and information about Nigeria and her peoples. Therefore, Nigerians
within and without Nigeria and friends of Nigeria all over the world or
all persons interested in Nigeria, irrespective of nationality, race,
creed, sex, age, or language, who can follow USENET netiquette, basic
rules of polite human interaction, and any further requirements imposed
by the charter are welcome to participate. Postings can cover any topic
of choice provided it has something to do with Nigeria. This means all
social, cultural, political, musical, historical, geographical, scienti-
fic, marital, technical, legal, and other topics that are, in one way or
another, related to Nigeria or Nigerians. Postings can also include news,
opinions, observations, humor, announcements, or requests. If it has
anything to do with Nigeria, it can be discussed.
Status and Rules
----------------
Soc.culture.nigeria shall be a moderated newsgroup. All articles posted
must have something to do with Nigeria or the peoples living therein.
Insults, flames or unnecessary criticism of a group or a person will be
discouraged by the moderators. Anyone will be able to post to this news-
group. However, being free to post should be considered a privilege and
not a right. Hence, junk, hate, sexist, racial, and cross-posted articles
will be strongly discouraged by the moderators. Most importantly, everyone
is responsible for what one posts. Please, respect the secularity of
Nigeria. Neither Christianity nor Islam, in fact, no religion whatsoever,
is Nigeria's official religion. So, for peace and tranquility over relig-
ious matters, religious articles which may cause disconcord amongst
readers will be strongly discouraged by the moderators. Please, read the
netiquette rules in news.announce.newusers before posting your first
article to this newsgroup, and endeavor to stick to them whenever posting
articles.
Moderation Policy:
------------------
The role of the moderators is to ensure that the conditions of the
charter are met by any submissions. Submissions shall be evaluated
as to whether or not they (a) are on-topic, (b) meet netiquette, and
(c) meet any other standards as defined in the charter. The forwarding
of submissions to soc.culture.nigeria by moderators shall be in a
timely manner.
We believe that moderation is not equal to censorship and shall never be
allowed to degenerate to censorship. However, we also believe that a
newsgroup should be free of irrelevant articles. The following shall
be off-topic in soc.culture.nigeria:
1) Posts not related to the purposes of creating soc.culture.nigeria.
2) Posts that exceed 75 characters per line. However, there is no limit
to the length of a submission.
3) Crossposts to soc.culture.nigeria will not be allowed. Notable
exceptions here are crossposts of articles which are related to
Nigeria. RFDs and CFVs of newsgroup proposals which, in the
opinion of the moderators (e.g., African-interest RFDs and CFVs), may
interest readers of soc.culture.nigeria, will be allowed. Nevertheless,
each cross-post shall be judged on its own merit.
4) "Me too" posts; posts that contain an unreasonable amount of quoted
text. As a general rule, a post will be rejected if less than 1/3
of it is new text. Posts which, in the opinion of the moderators,
do not contribute any new discussion to an ongoing thread; intensely
repetitive posts; unguarded polemics.
5) Commercial advertisements or personal advertisements that have nothing
to do with Nigeria; "spam" articles; and robogenerated articles.
6) Obscene plagiarism and academic dishonesty, including the deliberate
misattribution of quotations from historical documents and figures.
The moderators shall interprete this rule loosely -- newsgroups are
not academic journals -- but deliberate misattributions have poisoned
the atmosphere in other newsgroups.
7) Posts containing profanity or excessive rudeness; posts that lack
appropriate civility. While well-placed heckles are acceptable,
flamewars are not. Any post full of personal abuse, slander or libel,
or unauthorized reference to private e-mail addresses or mailing lists
shall also be rejected.
8) Propagation of national, religious, racial, sexual, or ethnic
hostility or animosity -- including posts openly justifying violence
(in particular, violence against disabled people, women and children),
war crimes, or ethnic cleansing.
9) Binary files, even if they are related to Nigeria. Nigerian-related
binary files should be posted to the appropriate alt.binaries.* group
with a pointer in soc.culture.Nigeria indicating where the binary in
question may be found.
Moderators will not screen postings for spelling, grammar, syntax,
or intellectual content and accuracy beyond that allowed in the charter
or its amendment thereof.
Moderators reserve the right to terminate any thread which degenerates
into unacceptable namecalling, rudeness, vulgarity, or which they feel
has reached its end or flash point. Such threads shall be terminated
by a 2/3 supermajority of the current moderators.
Individuals who believe a particular moderator has unfairly rejected a
submission can appeal to the entire panel of moderators. The panel
will reevaluate the submission and make a majority decision as to
whether it will be posted. In the event that the moderation panel is
evenly split over whether a submission ought to be posted, the
submission shall be posted.
If traffic in the group proves heavy, the moderators may develop a
robomoderation script to assist in their duties.
Anyone may volunteer to join the moderation panel with the consent
of a two-thirds supermajority of the current moderators. Moderators
shall not be required to belong to any specific group, be it national
/ethnic/cultural/... Moderators also may be removed by a 2/3 majority
of the active members of the moderation panel. Failing this, a moder-
ator may also be removed by a 2/3 vote of the ACTIVE participants in
the group. A participant shall be deemed ACTIVE if he/she shall have
successfully posted two or more articles to soc.culture.nigeria in
the 30 days prior to a request for a vote. Of course, moderators
may resign of their own volition. If a moderator wants to resign or
retire, he/she shall make a public statement at least 14 days prior
to resignation or retirement, so that a replacement may be found.
Gateway:
--------
Soc.culture.nigeria was created in 1994 to be Nigeria's window to
the USENET community and to serve as a relief valve to Nigeria's
main mailing list, Naijanet. Since it's inception, a temporary link
has been be maintained between Naijanet and soc.culture.nigeria.
This link has been very successful in maintaining Nigeria's pres-
ence on the USENET/Internet and affording our members who have no
access to USENET the opportunity to post to soc.culture.nigeria.
The general concensus is that this linkage shall be continued for the
total benefit of Nigerians and the USENET community. Therefore,
soc.culture.nigeria shall be gated to Naijanet via a unidirectional
gateway. Moderators of soc.culture.nigeria shall also moderate the
gateway. Any other Nigeria-interest mailing list may gateway to
soc.culture.nigeria if it desires, provided the approval of the current
moderators is obtained. Approval is by a vote of simple majority of
the active moderators. In addition, the list-owner shall have accepted
to supply at least one volunteer moderator to the current moderating
panel.
Languages and Character Sets
----------------------------
Postings in any of Nigeria's native languages (more than 250) as well
as Pidgin and English shall be accepted. Postings in languages other
than these are welcome provided that the English translations of the
articles are supplied, because English is Nigeria's official language.
Nigerians are encouraged to provide, where necessary, English transla-
tions to articles written in vernacular in order to improve readership.
Articles should be sent in the standard 7 bit ASCII character set,
conform to RFC822. If accented characters are necessary one is allowed
to use the standard 8 bit ISO-8859-1 character set. Other language or
machine-specific character sets are not acceptable in this newsgroup.
END CHARTER.
MODERATOR INFO: soc.culture.nigeria
Moderator: Alfred Ajose <ajose@ifu.net>
Moderator: Njansi Uchendu <lengelstad@turbonet.com>
Moderator: Bode Olajumoke <olajumoke@mary.fordham.edu>
Moderator: Uche Ikwut-Ukwa <stoffels@psu.edu>
END MODERATOR INFO.
PROCEDURE:
This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this phase
of the process, any potential problems with the proposed newsgroup
should be raised and resolved. The discussion period will continue
for a minimum of 21 days (starting from when the first RFD for this
proposal is posted to news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For
Votes (CFV) will be posted by a neutral vote taker. Please do not
attempt to vote until this happens.
All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.
This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup creation
guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup" and "How
to Format and Submit a New Group Proposal". Please refer to these
documents (available in news.announce.newgroups) if you have any
questions about the process.
DISTRIBUTION:
This RFD has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups,
news.groups,
soc.culture.african
soc.culture.nigeria
soc.culture.zimbabwe
soc.culture.sierra-leone
and the following mailing list:
Naijanet <naijanet@mitvma.mit.edu> (Nigerian Main Mailing List)
Subcribe via: listserv@mitvma.mit.edu
Subsrciption Command: subscribe naijanet user-name
Oduduwa-net <oduduwa-net@sfu.ca> (List for Yoruba Language and Culture)
no membership required to post articles.
Igbo--net <igbo--net@mcfeeley..utexas.edu> (List for Igbo Affairs)
no membership required to post articles
Naija-Women Network <naija-women@gradient..edu> (List for Naija Women Affairs)
no membership required to post articles.
pointers to this RFD will be posted by the mentor/proponents in:
soc.culture.kenya
soc.culture.liberia
soc.culture.south-africa
soc.culture.somalia
soc.culture.malagasy
soc.culture.caribbean
soc.culture.african.american
PROPONENTS:
Proponent: Babatunde Harrison <baba@igc.apc.org>
Proponent: Alfred Ajose <ajose@ifu.net>
Proponent: Njansi Uchendu <lengelstad@turbonet.com>
Proponent: Bode Olajumoke <olajumoke@mary.fordham.edu>
MENTOR: Oguocha Ike
USENET FACT: Big-8
BIG-8 hierarchies are the 8 traditional top hierarchies of the Usenet. See the following page for more