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From: [email protected] (Michael Nolan)
Subject: RFD: rec.humor.oracle moderated and rec.humor.oracle.d
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This was initially discussed in October, but because of a mailer problem with
the site which was going to collect the votes it was not brought to a vote
at that time. Steve Kinzler has requested that we reissue the RFD. Most
of this was originally written by Steve, but I have made some modifications.
Request for Discussion Reissued 01/11/92
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GROUP: rec.humor.oracle, replacing alt.humor.oracle
STATUS: moderated
INITIAL MODERATOR: Steve Kinzler ([email protected])
PURPOSE:
For postings of the Usenet Oracularities Digest at a maximum
frequency of one every two days, periodic information postings, and
announcements from the moderator.
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GROUP: rec.humor.oracle.d
STATUS: unmoderated
PURPOSE:
For discussion of the Usenet Oracle among its participants.
---------------------------
What's the Usenet Oracle?
Briefly and primarily, it's a means to support a cooperative effort for
creative, original humor. Software currently on iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
accepts e-mail containing "questions for the all-knowing Oracle". The
software sends out these questions to other questioners to be answered,
and then forwards the answer to the original questioners, all
anonymously. Copies of the resulting questions/answers are forwarded to
volunteers for review and selection for publication in the Usenet
Oracularities. Readers are invited to rate the published Oracularities,
and the results are included in a later issue. The persons who wrote
the question and answer are notified by e-mail of the score that their
joint efforts produced. Every couple of months, the very best
questions/answers are submitted to rec.humor.funny.
The Usenet Oracle has been running steadily for over two years. Over 380
issues of the Usenet Oracularities Digest have been sent out. In its
earliest months, issues of the digest were published more frequently and
contained material of more varying quality. They are now limited to at
most one issue every two days and their content is chosen by a diverse
group of volunteers.
For a more complete explanation of the Usenet Oracle and details about
accessing its archives, we refer you to the "Intro to the Usenet Oracle"
article posted to alt.humor.oracle and news.answers. This may also be
obtained by sending mail to [email protected] with the word
"help" in the subject line.
Why rec.humor.oracle?
The Usenet Oracularities were originally posted to rec.humor. A call by
Oracularities readers who weren't interested in the rest of rec.humor
and by rec.humor readers who weren't interested in the Oracularities led
me to create a separate newsgroup, alt.humor.oracle. alt.humor.oracle
has proved itself as a viable newsgroup with 18,000 readers reported in
recent statistics (#501, 58% propagation). However, as an alt group, its
availability is limited and my mailing list for the Oracularities digests
contains hundreds of people who are there because they cannot receive
alt.humor.oracle.
What happens to rec.humor.oracle if [email protected] goes out
of business?
Steve doesn't expect this to happen. If for any reason (none of which we can
now forsee), they would be no longer able to support the Usenet Oracle at
indiana.edu, there would be capable volunteers at other sites to take
over.
What does the moderator do?
The Oracle doesn't take much to keep it running. The software is developed
to a point where it pretty much runs itself. For the most part, the
moderator needs to keep an eye on it, manage the group of volunteer reviewers,
and edit the Oracularities.
Why is this being brought up again?
Steve Kinzler is going on a six month sabbatical starting in March. He
would like to see the Oracle through the creation of rec.humor.oracle, and
then turn it over to someone else, at least for the period of time when he
will be off the net. (Steve does not expect finding a new moderator to
be much of a problem.)
Why does rec.humor.oracle need to be moderated and why do we need
rec.humor.oracle.d?
At present alt.humor.oracle contains both the Oracle Digest and comments and
other questions or discussions about the Digest or the Oracle. There are
not at present a large number of non-Digest postings, but the volume will
likely increase once it moves to the rec hierarchy. Many of the non-Digest
posts which appear more correctly should have been sent to the Oracle as a
question.
Having rec.humor.oracle moderated will simplify this, and those people who
would prefer only to read the Oracularities will not have the other traffic
to deal with. Replies and followups to rec.humor.oracle could be treated as
votes, which is how followups are currently treated in the Oracularity
Digest. However, if rec.humor.oracle.d fails discussion would have to take
place in rec.humor.d.
When will voting begin?
Because this was discussed for some time last fall, with some changes made
in the original proposal based on discussion at that time, we hope that we can
begin the voting in just a few weeks, so that it can be concluded before
Steve takes off. Therefore, we feel that voting may begin as early as
January 25th. Michael Nolan will serve as vote collector and tabulator,
the exact address and voting procedures will be contained in the Call For
Votes when it is issued. This will be a two part vote, one for the creation
of rec.humor.oracle (moderated) and one for the creation of rec.humor.oracle.d
(unmoderated). The usual requirements (2/3 of the votes in favor, and at least
100 more YES votes than NO votes) will apply.
---
Michael Nolan, [email protected]
Tailored Software Services, Inc.
From [email protected] Sat Apr 4 02:48:52 1992
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From: [email protected] (Michael Nolan)
Subject: CFV: rec.humor.oracle moderated and rec.humor.oracle.d
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First Call for Votes Issued 01/23/92 Voting ends 2/16/92
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NOTE: This is a two part vote. Please use the sample ballot provided below.
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PROPOSAL 1: to create the group rec.humor.oracle, replacing alt.humor.oracle
STATUS: moderated
INITIAL MODERATOR: Steve Kinzler ([email protected])
CHARTER:
For postings of the Usenet Oracularities Digest at a maximum
frequency of one every two days, periodic information postings, and
announcements from the moderator. (See below for a description of the
Usenet Oracle.)
--------------------------
PROPOSAL 2: to create the group rec.humor.oracle.d
STATUS: unmoderated
CHARTER:
For discussion of the Usenet Oracle among its participants.
---------------------------
What's the Usenet Oracle?
Briefly and primarily, it's a means to support a cooperative effort for
creative, original humor. Software currently on iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
accepts e-mail containing "questions for the all-knowing Oracle". The
software sends out these questions to other questioners to be answered,
and then forwards the answer to the original questioners, all
anonymously. Copies of the resulting questions/answers are forwarded to
volunteers for review and selection for publication in the Usenet
Oracularities. Readers are invited to rate the published Oracularities,
and the results are included in a later issue. The persons who wrote
the question and answer are notified by e-mail of the score that their
joint efforts produced. Every couple of months, the very best
questions/answers are submitted to rec.humor.funny.
The Usenet Oracle has been running steadily for over two years. Over 380
issues of the Usenet Oracularities Digest have been sent out. In its
earliest months, issues of the digest were published more frequently and
contained material of more varying quality. They are now limited to at
most one issue every two days and their content is chosen by a diverse
group of volunteers.
For a more complete explanation of the Usenet Oracle and details about
accessing its archives, we refer you to the "Intro to the Usenet Oracle"
article posted to alt.humor.oracle and news.answers. This may also be
obtained by sending mail to [email protected] with the word
"help" in the subject line.
----------------
VOTING PROCEDURE:
IMPORTANT--This is a two part vote, please use the ballot form below to
simplify the tabulating procedure.
Votes should be sent to [email protected].
(Those experiencing problems with this address may wish to try either
tssi!vote-oracle or vote-oracle%[email protected].)
Votes will not be individually acknowledged, but one or more mass
acknowledgements will be posted during the voting period. Only ballots
received by e-mail during the voting period will be counted. Ballots posted
to any newsgroup will not be counted.
VOTING PERIOD: Now (1/23/92) through 23:59 CST on 2/16/92.
TABULATION PROCEDURE:
Votes will be tabulated by Michael Nolan ([email protected]). The criteria
for approval shall be a 2/3 majority vote in favor with 100 more 'FOR'
votes that 'AGAINST' votes. The two proposals will be tabulated separately.
(Although if proposal 1 fails, proposal 2 is somewhat moot.)
SAMPLE BALLOT FORM
Edit to eliminate the unwanted words and mail to [email protected]
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Proposal 1: I vote for/against the creation of rec.humor.oracle
Proposal 2: I vote for/against the creation of rec.humor.oracle.d
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Michael Nolan, [email protected] "Software means never having
Tailored Software Services, Inc. to say you're finished."
Lincoln, Nebraska (402) 423-1490 --J. D. Hildebrand in UNIX REVIEW
From [email protected] Sat Apr 4 02:51:54 1992
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From: [email protected] (Michael Nolan)
Subject: 2nd CFV and VOTE ACK: rec.humor.oracle moderated & rec.humor.oracle.d
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This is the 2nd call for votes for the proposed creation of:
rec.humor.oracle moderated
rec.humor.oracle.d
A 3rd and final CFV will go out in 10 days, the voting period ends Feb 16th.
The charter and first mass acknowledgement of votes follows:
Second Call for Votes Voting began 1/23/92, ends 2/16/92
====== ==== === =====
NOTE: This is a two part vote. Please use the sample ballot provided below.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
PROPOSAL 1: to create the group rec.humor.oracle, replacing alt.humor.oracle
STATUS: moderated
INITIAL MODERATOR: Steve Kinzler ([email protected])
CHARTER:
For postings of the Usenet Oracularities Digest at a maximum
frequency of one every two days, periodic information postings, and
announcements from the moderator. (See below for a description of the
Usenet Oracle.)
--------------------------
PROPOSAL 2: to create the group rec.humor.oracle.d
STATUS: unmoderated
CHARTER:
For discussion of the Usenet Oracle among its participants.
---------------------------
What's the Usenet Oracle?
Briefly and primarily, it's a means to support a cooperative effort for
creative, original humor. Software currently on iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
accepts e-mail containing "questions for the all-knowing Oracle". The
software sends out these questions to other questioners to be answered,
and then forwards the answer to the original questioners, all
anonymously. Copies of the resulting questions/answers are forwarded to
volunteers for review and selection for publication in the Usenet
Oracularities. Readers are invited to rate the published Oracularities,
and the results are included in a later issue. The persons who wrote
the question and answer are notified by e-mail of the score that their
joint efforts produced. Every couple of months, the very best
questions/answers are submitted to rec.humor.funny.
The Usenet Oracle has been running steadily for over two years. Over 380
issues of the Usenet Oracularities Digest have been sent out. In its
earliest months, issues of the digest were published more frequently and
contained material of more varying quality. They are now limited to at
most one issue every two days and their content is chosen by a diverse
group of volunteers.
For a more complete explanation of the Usenet Oracle and details about
accessing its archives, we refer you to the "Intro to the Usenet Oracle"
article posted to alt.humor.oracle and news.answers. This may also be
obtained by sending mail to [email protected] with the word
"help" in the subject line.
----------------
VOTING PROCEDURE:
IMPORTANT--This is a two part vote, please use the ballot form below to
simplify the tabulating procedure.
Votes should be sent to [email protected].
(Those experiencing problems with this address may wish to try either
tssi!vote-oracle or vote-oracle%[email protected].)
Votes will not be individually acknowledged, but one or more mass
acknowledgements will be posted during the voting period. Only ballots
received by e-mail during the voting period will be counted.
VOTING PERIOD: Now (1/22/92) through 23:59 CST on 2/16/92.
TABULATION PROCEDURE:
Votes will be tabulated by Michael Nolan ([email protected]). The criteria
for approval shall be a 2/3 majority vote in favor with 100 more 'FOR'
votes that 'AGAINST' votes. The two proposals will be tabulated separately.
(Although if proposal 1 fails, proposal 2 is moot.)
SAMPLE BALLOT FORM
Edit to eliminate the unwanted words and mail to [email protected]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Proposal 1: I vote for/against the creation of rec.humor.oracle
Proposal 2: I vote for/against the creation of rec.humor.oracle.d
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Mass acknowledgement of votes received as of 9:00 am CST on 1/28/92:
Multiple messages were received from the following three individuals:
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Votes were received from the following individuals:
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prism.gatech.edu!vaps0de (Dustin Emhart)
pttrnl.nl!M_Kuunders (Martien Kuunders)
puck.mport.com!lee
qualcomm.com!wwalker (Bill Walker)
r140.tased.edu.au!jim (Jim Palfreyman)
reed.edu!chaffee (Alex Chaffee)
relay.nluug.nl!ptt-iat!news ( Pete )
remus.rutgers.edu!gaynor (Silver)
rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!ib09
sage.cc.purdue.edu!kingd (Daniel King without the 8)
sage.cc.purdue.edu!tgf (Trever Furnish)
sci34hub.sci.com!felton (Ed Felton)
shindo.asd.sgi.com!davemc (David McAllister)
sj.ate.slb.com!jaws (John Willmore)
sjameson (Stephen M Jameson)
skcla.monsanto.com!mmhami (Mike (708)982-8188 A-BSMT)
software.org!osborne (Skip Osborne)
spss.com!adams
spss.com!werner
stolaf.edu!rayd (Daniel W Ray)
tandem.com!TRIMBORN_GEORG
taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil!shimeall (timothy shimeall)
tcg.com!doc (Dan Cummings)
teak.cray.com!jot (Otto Tennant)
tekig6.pen.tek.com!rayv (Raymond L Veith)
thelake.mn.org!steve (Steve Yelvington)
titan.ucc.umass.edu!a0s7116 (Steve Morin)
trwrb.dsd.trw.com!suhre (Maurice E. Suhre)
twink.acuson.com!thomas (Chris Thomas)
uhasun.hartford.edu!kecooney (Kenneth Cooney)
ultb.isc.rit.edu!pjb4288 (P.J. Boulay )
unx.sas.com!dma
unx.sas.com!sasmjw
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zen.cac.stratus.com!williams (Eric Williams)
zeus.ocs.com!tscott (T. Scott)
zip.eecs.umich.edu!huggins
--
Michael Nolan, vote tabulator
[email protected]
From [email protected] Sat Apr 4 02:59:30 1992
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Path: rpi!bounce-back
From: [email protected] (Mike Nolan)
Subject: 3rd CFV and VOTE ACK: rec.humor.oracle moderated & rec.humor.oracle.d
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This is the 3rd and final call for votes for the proposed creation of:
rec.humor.oracle moderated
rec.humor.oracle.d
The voting period ends Feb 16th.
The charter and first mass acknowledgement of votes follows:
Third Call for Votes Voting began 1/23/92, ends 2/16/92
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NOTE: This is a two part vote. Please use the sample ballot provided below.
Please note the additional address for voting. A problem has developed
with e-mail to tssi.com last Thursday that has not yet been resolved.
Sorry about that, it has been inconvenient for this vote and even more so
for any other e-mail bound for us.
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PROPOSAL 1: to create the group rec.humor.oracle, replacing alt.humor.oracle
STATUS: moderated
INITIAL MODERATOR: Steve Kinzler ([email protected])
CHARTER:
For postings of the Usenet Oracularities Digest at a maximum
frequency of one every two days, periodic information postings, and
announcements from the moderator. (See below for a description of the
Usenet Oracle.)
--------------------------
PROPOSAL 2: to create the group rec.humor.oracle.d
STATUS: unmoderated
CHARTER:
For discussion of the Usenet Oracle among its participants.
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What's the Usenet Oracle?
Briefly and primarily, it's a means to support a cooperative effort for
creative, original humor. Software currently on iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
accepts e-mail containing "questions for the all-knowing Oracle". The
software sends out these questions to other questioners to be answered,
and then forwards the answer to the original questioners, all
anonymously. Copies of the resulting questions/answers are forwarded to
volunteers for review and selection for publication in the Usenet
Oracularities. Readers are invited to rate the published Oracularities,
and the results are included in a later issue. The persons who wrote
the question and answer are notified by e-mail of the score that their
joint efforts produced. Every couple of months, the very best
questions/answers are submitted to rec.humor.funny.
The Usenet Oracle has been running steadily for over two years. Over 380
issues of the Usenet Oracularities Digest have been sent out. In its
earliest months, issues of the digest were published more frequently and
contained material of more varying quality. They are now limited to at
most one issue every two days and their content is chosen by a diverse
group of volunteers.
For a more complete explanation of the Usenet Oracle and details about
accessing its archives, we refer you to the "Intro to the Usenet Oracle"
article posted to alt.humor.oracle and news.answers. This may also be
obtained by sending mail to [email protected] with the word
"help" in the subject line.
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VOTING PROCEDURE:
IMPORTANT--This is a two part vote, please use the ballot form below to
simplify the tabulating procedure.
Votes should be sent to [email protected].
PLEASE SEND A CC OF YOUR VOTE TO: [email protected], because e-mail
delivery to tssi.com was interrupted last Thursday and has not yet been
restored. (To make matters worse, most users are not getting bounce
messages.)
Votes will not be individually acknowledged, but one or more mass
acknowledgements will be posted during the voting period. Only ballots
received by e-mail during the voting period will be counted.
VOTING PERIOD: Now (1/22/92) through 23:59 CST on 2/16/92.
TABULATION PROCEDURE:
Votes will be tabulated by Michael Nolan ([email protected]). The criteria
for approval shall be a 2/3 majority vote in favor with 100 more 'FOR'
votes that 'AGAINST' votes. The two proposals will be tabulated separately.
(Although if proposal 1 fails, proposal 2 is moot.)
SAMPLE BALLOT FORM
Edit to eliminate the unwanted words and mail to [email protected]
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Proposal 1: I vote for/against the creation of rec.humor.oracle
Proposal 2: I vote for/against the creation of rec.humor.oracle.d
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Mass acknowledgement of votes received between 9:00 AM CST 1/28/92 and
4 PM CST on 2/5/92. Votes received prior to that were in the first Mass
Acknowledgement and are not repeated here. I have NOT cross-checked the
two list for duplicates yet.
Multiple messages received from:
Alan Ralph
Dewey Henize
Justin Clark
ucscb.UCSC.EDU!pippin (lorei)
Votes received from:
"Clifton Royston HNL (808)625-3234 : 1991, tQeUaAmLwIoTrYk"
"D.Langford"
"David J. Fiander"
"Robert J. Stratton III"
ASC.SLB.COM!guthery
Andy Malis
Anthony Frost
Ashish Jain
Brett B. Doehr
Brian Switzer
CUIP/ASG Technical Senior Writer -- DTN 297-9884 30-Jan-1992 1010
Chuck Bauer
Dan McCrackin
Dave Barr
EBay.Sun.COM!John.McCartney ( The Lion of Symmetry )
EDESIO COSTA E SILVA
Eoin P. O'Coindealbhain
Gehri Grimaud
Gentleman Adventurer
Gwyn Evans 29-Jan-1992 1812
ICNUCEVM.CNUCE.CNR.IT!CALLARI%VLSIPA.CRES.IT
Ian Holland <@nmpd.oz.au:[email protected]>
Jason Zions
Jesus built my Hotrod
Joe Casciari
Jon Anderson
Jonathan M Lennox
Kari Hurtta
Kelly Derek Deyoe
Kenneth Jamieson
Kevin Tipple
LIVE FROM THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Mike Ainsworth
Mitchell Marks
Niels Ull Jacobsen
PORTLAND.maine.edu!IP15175 (Matthew Rodgers)
Peter H. Hellmonds
RICH MCGEE
ROBERT LEE COLLINS
Roland Kaltefleiter
Shih-ping Spencer Sun
The Accursed
Tim Ihde
Todd Radel
Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
UCSD.EDU!comtec!matt (Matt Hoffman)
armltd.co.uk!amerritt (Andy Merritt)
bangate.compaq.com!Don=Symes%CPU=Test%Mfg=Hou
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bird!gilesm (Giles Morris)
brazos.cray.com!emm (Mike McConnell)
cats.UCSC.EDU!shandon (Tim Kolar)
cbnewsl.att.com!mingus
channelz.GUN.de!swildner (Sascha Wildner)
china.intel.com!sstrazdu (Stephen Strazdus)
cleveland.Freenet.Edu!bl549 (Jason Vary)
cpsc.ucalgary.ca!grued (Deanna Grue)
crdos1.crd.ge.com!davidsen
cs.UMD.EDU!tms (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!))
cs.brown.edu!cs141065 (Mark Prince)
cs.cornell.edu!bard (Bard Bloom)
cs.uoregon.edu!bart
darmstadt.gmd.de!dilley (Stefan Dilley)
dino.DinoCo.de!colonius (Stephan Muhs)
dsd.es.com!rjones (Ray Jones)
dseg.ti.com!hoenig%aa5zc
dxlaa.cern.ch!xexeo (Geraldo Xexeo)
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furry.lonestar.org!tam (Todd A. Murray)
galt.sim.es.com!jmckell (John McKell)
gnu.ai.mit.edu!whatis (Lupus Yonderboy)
gpark.pub.uu.oz.au!ianr (Ian Rowlands)
halcyon.com!ralphs (Ralph Sims)
hertz.njit.edu!dic5340 (David Charlap)
iastate.edu!geff
icarus.tti.com!alter (Steve Alter)
indetech.com!rec (Rick Cobb)
inmet.camb.inmet.com!justin (Justin du Coeur MKA Mark Waks)
is.rice.edu!sbyrnes (Steven Patrick Byrnes)
ivory.rtsg.mot.com!peed (Andrew Peed)
jerry cullingford
jezebel.wustl.edu!mccarthy (John McCarthy)
leland.stanford.edu!parana
ll.mit.edu!eaustin (Eric J. Austin)
m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us!jvary (Jason Vary)
m2.dseg.ti.com!mmeyer (Mark Meyer)
mayo.EDU!ksh (Kerrie Holton)
menolly!barbara (Barbara Winters)
menolly!sarah (Sarah L. Winters)
mhsgw.harvard.edu!JAP.LASPAU (JAP)
microsoft.COM!erichs
microsoft.COM!johnha
moeng2.minc.umd.edu!justice (Joseph R. Justice)
moore.com!paul (Paul Maclauchlan)
ncar.UCAR.EDU!asuvax!anasaz!qip.morris (Bob Morris)
netex.netx.com!hudson (Hudson Hendren)
nic.CSU.net!BEEMAN
panix.com!jhawk (John Hawkinson)
panix.com!jsblau (Jonathan Blau)
philabs.Philips.Com!nrh (Nikolaus R. Haus)
prism.gatech.edu!gt7950b (Charles Edward Patisaul)
psl.nmsu.edu!jdean
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sage.cc.purdue.edu!tgf (Trever Furnish)
sewer.att.com!psrc (Paul S R Chisholm)
sherpa.com!danf ("Dan Ford")
sidus.ocunix.on.ca!phill (Phil Linttell)
silver.lcs.mit.edu!buglady (Aliza R. Panitz)
silver.lcs.mit.edu!buglady (Aliza R. Panitz)
sj.ate.slb.com!engel (Mike Engelhardt)
srv.PacBell.COM!jmcarli (Jerry M. Carlin)
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ssc-bee.boeing.com!celia
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tc.fluke.com!moriarty (Jeff Meyer)
tcg.com!rj (Richard Jones)
teds%pro-palmtree.cts.com (Teddy Slottow)
tintin.rivm.nl!a3 (Adri Verhoef)
titan.kingston.ac.uk!SJ_A107
ucscb.UCSC.EDU!drache (60114633+)
um.cc.umich.edu!Peter.Riley
uunet.UU.NET!88opensi!denver!dave (Dave Cline)
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--
Michael Nolan, [email protected] "Software means never having
Tailored Software Services, Inc. to say you're finished."
Lincoln, Nebraska (402) 423-1490 --J. D. Hildebrand in UNIX REVIEW
Temporarily, please use [email protected] as tssi.com is off the air.
From [email protected] Sat Apr 4 03:10:11 1992
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Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.humor.oracle,rec.humor.d
Path: rpi!bounce-back
From: [email protected] (Michael Nolan)
Subject: RESULT: rec.humor.oracle{,.d} pass {530:26,487:67}
Followup-To: news.groups
Sender: [email protected]
Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu
Organization: Tailored Software Services, Inc.
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1992 04:28:35 GMT
Approved: [email protected]
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Voting concluded at 23:59 CST on 2/16/92, a total of 556 votes were received.
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PROPOSAL 1: to create the group rec.humor.oracle moderated
PASSES 530-26
INITIAL MODERATOR: Steve Kinzler
CHARTER:
For postings of the Usenet Oracularities Digest at a maximum
frequency of one every two days, periodic information postings, and
announcements from the moderator.
--------------------------
PROPOSAL 2: to create the group rec.humor.oracle.d
PASSES 487-67
CHARTER:
For discussion of the Usenet Oracle among its participants.
---------------------------
In both cases, the usual criteria for a successful vote were easily met.
(100 more YES votes than NO votes, 2/3 majority)
After a five day waiting period for comments, the control messages to
add the new groups will be sent by [email protected]. Comments should be sent to
the vote tabulator, Michael Nolan, [email protected]
(Alternate addresses: [email protected], [email protected])
========================
NO votes received on rec.humor.oracle:
Chuck Carroll
Hannu Visti
Helge Hauglin
Ishai Ben-Aroya
Kari Hurtta
Rodent (Phil Weiss)
Roland Kaltefleiter
Sven Heinicke
Tom Fitzgerald
aachen.ericsson.se!eedwpz (Walter P. Zaehl)
camelot.bradley.edu!dragon (Matthew Korth)
crdos1.crd.ge.com!davidsen
cs.UMD.EDU!nulspace (Michael Chang)
[email protected] (David Greenebaum)
hubcap.clemson.edu!elauren (Addison Laurent)
isis.cs.du.edu!cpolishe (Chuck Polisher)
mr.med.ge.com!scafati (Victor-charles Scafati 4-6784)
ohm.berkeley.edu!jbuck (Joe Buck)
[email protected] (Patti Beadles)
remus.rutgers.edu!gaynor (Silver)
[email protected] (Dick Smith)
sparky!moore.com!paul (Paul Maclauchlan)
sparky!tc.fluke.com!moriarty (Jeff Meyer)
tintin.rivm.nl!a3 (Adri Verhoef)
uunet.UU.NET!88opensi!denver!dave (Dave Cline)
==================================
YES votes received on rec.humor.oracle:
""
"&runtil&&"
"/usr/users2/wombat/.signature"
"A Knight in White Satin"
"Andreas Schuch [CIP]"
"Brett Lang"
"C.R. Harding"
"Carl Makin"
"Charles Geyer"
"Clifton Royston HNL (808)625-3234 : 1991, tQeUaAmLwIoTrYk"
"D.Langford"
"Daniel R. Jeuch"
"Dave Schaumann"
"David J. Fiander"
"Diane J. Donaldson"
"Donald W. Brinker"
"Gary L. Hewitt"
"Hell's Snack Bar, Where ALL the food is hot!"
"ISHKATE"
"John B. Matthews"
"John Schulien "
"Jonathan R. Ferro"
"Joshua R. Poulson"
"Kurt W. Miles (405) 329-7303"
"Laurie Kristinat, ext. 597"
"Life, God is gracious."
"Mark Day"
"Mark Kinney, Attorney at Chaos"
"Norman St. John Polevaulter"
"Patrick T. Lessard"
"Renegade"
"Richard G. Larson"
"Robert Halonen"
"Robert J. Stratton III"
"Scotti Z. Whitmire"
"Sherrianne M. Johnson"
"Terry Maton, U of Saskatchewan"
"Todd L. Masco"
"Tomas A. Perez"
"sendhil revuluri"
#6
*** BudMan ***
714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu!cedman (Carl Edman)
ANAPL
ASC.SLB.COM!guthery
Alan Coopersmith
Alan Ralph
Andy Malis
Anthony Frost
Arne Henrik Juul
Arthur Bernard Byrne
Ashish Jain
Atex.Kodak.COM!mailman (Paul Mailman)
Athena.MIT.EDU!edzimmer
Athena.MIT.EDU!rlcarr
Athena.MIT.EDU!solman
Augustana news manager
Aus.Sun.COM!peterb (Peter Boothby - Sun Melbourne SE)
[email protected]
Bill Reeves
Bob Bowerman
Bob Cadman
Brett B. Doehr
Brian Greenberg
Brian Switzer
Brian Wyld