From [email protected] Fri Feb  4 16:17:17 1994
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From: [email protected] (Elin Danien)
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Subject: RFD: sci.archaeology.mesoamerican
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Request for Discussion (RFD) of sci.archaeology.mesoamerican (unmoderated)

sci.archaeology.mesoamerican  The field of mesoamerican archaeology.

Proposer(s):- Elin Danien       ([email protected]) and
              Lachlan Cranswick ([email protected])

Please note that this proposed newsgroup is intended to be an open forum
for discussion of archaeology.  Thus relevant topics for this newsgroup
should only be limited to what the participants in this proposed newsgroup
regard as relevant.
------------------------------------------------

We propose a new unmoderated newsgroup called
sci.archaeology.mesoamerican.  The main aim of
sci.archaeology.mesoamerican is to provide an open forum for the
discussion of mesoamerican archaeology and related fields on the internet.

Following a discussion and positive email response on sci.archaeology,
there seems to be the support for this proposed newsgroup.

(Could people reading this post mention it to colleagues who might be
interested and benefit from a mesoamerican archaeology newsgroup but not
normally use the internet newsgroups.)

	Proposed Name of Group
---------------------------------------
	sci.archaeology.mesoamerican (unmoderated)
	
	Purpose of New Newsgroup
_______________________________--

The purpose of sci.archaeology.mesoamerican is to provide an open
discussion forum for the mesoamerican archaeology community on the
internet.  The newsgroups allow the rapid and timely discussion of
opinions and information that would take months or years (or not at all)
on conventional paper journals.

	Topics for discussion would include :-
-------------------------------------------------

Announcements of new excavations/discoveries/interpretations
Cultures covered include, but are not limited to:
	Maya
	Aztec
	Toltec
	Zapotec
	Mixtec
	Olmec
	Teotihuacan
	Gulf Coast
	
	Also North American and South American cultures, including Inca,
Moche, Inuit, etc., etc.

Software
Databases
Hardware/Equipment - specs, opinions, etc
Applications
Techniques
Announcements/reviews of papers/conferences
General Discussion/opinions/questions
Positions vacant

Anything else that is relevant.

-----------------------------------------------------

What is the Process of Creating a Newsgroup
-----------------------------------------------------

>(a) RFD: Discussion, i.e., public hearing to take place in the newsgroup
     news.groups for approximately one month 
 (b) CFV: Call for votes (the voting period will be about 25 days)
 (c) Counting of votes and public display of votes
 (d) Announcement of new newsgroup

(a)-->(b) assumes no major disagreements about this newsgroup during
discussion.  (c)-->(d) assumes that the vote is favorable, i.e., Y> N+100
and Y> (2/3)(Y+N).
Y being the number of YES votes, N being the number of NO votes for the
creation of the proposed newsgroup.
==============================================================

Please comment/criticise/suggest by followons to this  post or email to:-
Elin Danien		([email protected])
Lachlan Cranswick	([email protected])

From [email protected] Thu Mar 31 12:01:05 1994
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From: [email protected] (Andrew Solovay)
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Subject: CFV: sci.archaeology.mesoamerican
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		     FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
	    unmoderated group sci.archaeology.mesoamerican

Newsgroups line:
sci.archaeology.mesoamerican  The field of mesoamerican archaeology.

Votes must be received by 23:59:59 GMT, 21 April 1994.

This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  For voting
questions only contact [email protected].  For questions about the
proposed group contact Lachlan Cranswick .

CHARTER

The aim of sci.archaeology.mesoamerican is to provide an
open discussion forum for the mesoamerican archaeology community 
on the internet.  This newsgroup would allow rapid, timely 
and focussed discussions of opinions and information that 
would take months or years (or not at all) on conventional 
paper journals.

   Topics for discussion would include :-
---------------------------------------

Announcements of new excavations/discoveries/interpretations
Cultures covered include, but are not limited to:
    Maya,
    Aztec,
    Toltec,
    Zapotec,
    Mixtec,
    Olmec,
    Teotihuacan,
    Gulf Coast.

   Also North American and South American Cultures
       Inca, etc.

Software
Databases
Hardware/Equipment - specs, opinions, etc.
Applications
Techniques
Announcements/reviews of papers/conferences.
General Discussion/opinions/questions.
Positions vacant

HOW TO VOTE

Send MAIL to:   [email protected]
Just Replying should work if you are not reading this on a mailing
list, and if your newsreader honors the "reply-to" line. Double-check
the address before sending your ballot.

Your mail message should contain one of the following statements:
      I vote YES on sci.archaeology.mesoamerican
      I vote NO on sci.archaeology.mesoamerican

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.

Each person may vote only once, no matter how many accounts he or she
may have. Also, only one ballot will be accepted from any account, no
matter how many people may share it. If more than one vote is received
>from any person or any account, only the last vote received will be
counted.

Addresses and votes of all voters will be published in the final
voting results list. All ballots received are kept in the UVV archives
(including "cancelled" and invalid ballots). The vote files are made
available to the moderator of news.announce.newgroups on request. They
may also, at the discretion of the UVV, be made more widely available
if there is a controversy concerning the vote.

From [email protected] Tue Apr 19 17:48:53 1994
Path: uunet!bounce-back
From: [email protected] (Andrew Solovay)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,sci.archaeology,sci.anthropology,sci.environment,sci.geo.geology,sci.chem,sci.bio,sci.lang,sci.research
Subject: 2nd CFV: sci.archaeology.mesoamerican
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                     LAST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
            unmoderated group sci.archaeology.mesoamerican

Newsgroups line:
sci.archaeology.mesoamerican  The field of mesoamerican archaeology.

Votes must be received by 23:59:59 GMT, 21 April 1994.

This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  For voting
questions only contact [email protected].  For questions about the
proposed group contact Lachlan Cranswick .

CHARTER

The aim of sci.archaeology.mesoamerican is to provide an
open discussion forum for the mesoamerican archaeology community 
on the internet.  This newsgroup would allow rapid, timely 
and focussed discussions of opinions and information that 
would take months or years (or not at all) on conventional 
paper journals.

   Topics for discussion would include :-
---------------------------------------

Announcements of new excavations/discoveries/interpretations
Cultures covered include, but are not limited to:
    Maya,
    Aztec,
    Toltec,
    Zapotec,
    Mixtec,
    Olmec,
    Teotihuacan,
    Gulf Coast.

   Also North American and South American Cultures
       Inca, etc.

Software
Databases
Hardware/Equipment - specs, opinions, etc.
Applications
Techniques
Announcements/reviews of papers/conferences.
General Discussion/opinions/questions.
Positions vacant

HOW TO VOTE

Send MAIL to:   [email protected]

Just Replying should work if you are not reading this on a mailing
list, and if your newsreader honors the "reply-to" line. Double-check
the address before sending your ballot.

Your mail message should contain one of the following statements:
      I vote YES on sci.archaeology.mesoamerican
      I vote NO on sci.archaeology.mesoamerican

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.

Each person may vote only once, no matter how many accounts he or she
may have. Also, only one ballot will be accepted from any account, no
matter how many people may share it. If more than one vote is received
>from any person or any account, only the last vote received will be
counted.

Addresses and votes of all voters will be published in the final
voting results list. All ballots received are kept in the UVV archives
(including "cancelled" and invalid ballots). The vote files are made
available to the moderator of news.announce.newgroups on request. They
may also, at the discretion of the UVV, be made more widely available
if there is a controversy concerning the vote.


BOUNCES

The following people have submitted valid ballots, but my
acknowledgement EMail to them bounced. They need not revote.

sci.archaeology.mesoamerican Bounce List
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[email protected]                                   Charles Hattendorf
[email protected]                                                   
[email protected]                              Mark E. Esposito


INVALID VOTES

The following people sent invalid ballots, and have not superseded
them with valid ones. They must revote if they want their votes to be
counted.

Votes in error
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[email protected]                                                 Art Goodtimes
   ! No vote statement in message
[email protected]                                            Harmon Seaver
   ! No vote statement in message
[email protected]                                                     Mark Cain
   ! No vote statement in message
[email protected]                                              [email protected]
   ! No vote statement in message
[email protected]                                         Stuart Pocknee
   ! No vote statement in message

From [email protected] Mon Apr 25 14:16:25 1994
Path: uunet!bounce-back
From: [email protected] (Andrew Solovay)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,sci.archaeology,sci.anthropology,sci.environment,sci.geo.geology,sci.chem,sci.bio,sci.lang,sci.research
Subject: RESULT: sci.archaeology.mesoamerican passes 141:15
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				RESULT
     unmoderated group sci.archaeology.mesoamerican passes 141:15

There were 141 YES votes and 15 NO votes, for a total of 156 valid votes. 
There was 1 abstain and 6 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.


Voting closed at 23:59:59 GMT, 21 April 1994.

This vote was conducted by a neutral third party.

Vote-taker's address:		[email protected] (Andrew Solovay)
Group proponent's address:	[email protected] (Lachlan Cranswick)

Newsgroups line:
sci.archaeology.mesoamerican  The field of mesoamerican archaeology.

CHARTER (culled from the Call for Votes):

The aim of sci.archaeology.mesoamerican is to provide an
open discussion forum for the mesoamerican archaeology community 
on the internet.  This newsgroup would allow rapid, timely 
and focussed discussions of opinions and information that 
would take months or years (or not at all) on conventional 
paper journals.

   Topics for discussion would include :-
---------------------------------------

Announcements of new excavations/discoveries/interpretations
Cultures covered include, but are not limited to:
    Maya,
    Aztec,
    Toltec,
    Zapotec,
    Mixtec,
    Olmec,
    Teotihuacan,
    Gulf Coast.

   Also North American and South American Cultures
       Inca, etc.

Software
Databases
Hardware/Equipment - specs, opinions, etc.
Applications
Techniques
Announcements/reviews of papers/conferences.
General Discussion/opinions/questions.
Positions vacant

sci.archaeology.mesoamerican Final Vote Ack

Voted Yes
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[email protected]                                   Michael J. Dollard
[email protected]                      JESUS EUGENIO SANCHEZ PENA
[email protected]                                     M. Alan Overstreet
[email protected]                                          Al Wahrhaftig
[email protected]                                           K A Sturrock
[email protected]                                           Jason Lucas
[email protected]                                                    Jim Ault
[email protected]                                            MA WAI KWAN
[email protected]                               Ralf Baumeister
[email protected]                                 Brian Ampolsk
[email protected]                                         Bruce d. Scott
[email protected]                                  Soaring Bear
[email protected]                                         Bill Bereza
[email protected]                              Bernard Casgrain
[email protected]                                Broken Hill Proprietary
[email protected]                                            Bill Touchstone
[email protected]                                                 NRB
[email protected]                                 Douglas P. Shannon
[email protected]                                          Beast of Eden
[email protected]                                                   Brent Smith
[email protected]                                   19922-B.T.LING(HOJ507)NONE
[email protected]                                     Aliza R. Panitz
[email protected]                                   Thomas Burglin
[email protected]                                               Russell Butek
[email protected]                                       David L. Carlson
[email protected]                                          Dr. Richard Cassin
[email protected]                                             CYNTHIA BENNETT AWE
[email protected]                                            Clarissa G Hoover
[email protected]                                            Claia Bryja
[email protected]                                                      Chicca
[email protected]                                   Cindy Cooperider
[email protected]                                   Charles Hattendorf
[email protected]                                             
[email protected]                               David Darryl Bibb
[email protected]                                                  Dean Edwards
[email protected]                           Dennis Wadsworth
[email protected]                                 Douglas John Mitchell
[email protected]                                               marc (m.) donovan
[email protected]                                    Doug Scofield
[email protected]                                                Daniel Rahman
[email protected]                                     Rebecca Drayer
[email protected]                                              David Rodgers
[email protected]                                        Doug Weller
[email protected]                                          Dr. Erica Golemis
[email protected]                                              Elin Danien
[email protected]                                          Eric Brunner
[email protected]                                                       
[email protected]                                             Espen Kristensen
[email protected]                                                 Faust
[email protected]                                                      
[email protected]                                               Gene Blishen
[email protected]                                      Barbara Gifford
[email protected]                                                               
[email protected]                                                              
[email protected]                                       Hernan Astudillo R.
[email protected]                                            Harmon Seaver
[email protected]                              Jennifer D Alexander
[email protected]                                        Jamison Graff
[email protected]                             James Alexander Chokey
[email protected]                                            John D\UAmato
[email protected]                                                               
[email protected]                                                       
[email protected]                                              J. Eric Townsend
[email protected]                                          Joseph Fortt
[email protected]                                                   
[email protected]                               James R McCown
[email protected]                                     Julia Carolyn Miller
[email protected]                                                            
[email protected]                                      Joni J Rathbun
[email protected]                                                 Hal Broome
[email protected]                                                     Jason Ur
[email protected]                                    Jon Brinkmann
[email protected]                                                
[email protected]                                                 Lawrence A Coon
[email protected]                                         Lachlan Cranswick
[email protected]                                                   
[email protected]                                 Karen Lofstrom
[email protected]                                     Lou Sanchez-Chopitea
lsvedin%[email protected]                                        Svedin
[email protected]                                            Luke Higgins
[email protected]                                        Wilson Luther
[email protected]                         Marcio Migueletto de Andrade
[email protected]                                                     Mark Cain
[email protected]                              Mark E. Esposito
[email protected]                              Matthew Howard Robb
[email protected]                                     Hugh B. Maynard
[email protected]                                              Mark Beck
[email protected]                                             Brian McMillin
[email protected]                                       Mark Davies
[email protected]                                                  Mark Hodges
[email protected]                                              Mike Jay
[email protected]                                   Bryan Miller
[email protected]                                          Michael J Kovacs
[email protected]                                       Michael Kalen Smith
[email protected]                                         Matt Smith
[email protected]                                                      Mary Pax
[email protected]                           Melissa Rhoads Warden
[email protected]                                            David Murray
[email protected]                                                              
[email protected]                                                     Nigel Allen
[email protected]                  Patric M. McGuire 575-6899 msgid PMM
[email protected]                                            Christopher Pound
[email protected]                                      P. K. Powell   
[email protected]                                            Pat Helton
[email protected]                                      Phil Scarr
[email protected]                                     Peter Selverstone
[email protected]                                   Michael J. Quinn
[email protected]                                     Gordon F. M. Rakita
[email protected]                                            Rachel Gaspers
[email protected]                               Robert J. Older
[email protected]                                                         Rick Owen
[email protected]                                           Robert Mark
[email protected]                                                         
[email protected]                                                          
[email protected]                                                 Ronnie B. Kon
[email protected]                                                          
[email protected]                                            Saul Tannenbaum
[email protected]                                                    
[email protected]                                                   
[email protected]                                        Stephen Joseph Smith
[email protected]                                                    sks
[email protected]                                    Marc D. Sorensen
[email protected]                                      Susan B. Peinado
[email protected]                                         Stuart Pocknee
[email protected]                                                Fazia Rizvi
[email protected]                             JESUS THE SEA MONSTER
[email protected]                                     Noel S. McFerran
[email protected]                           Steve Chrostowski
[email protected]                                    Lucille A Stiffler
[email protected]                                        Sascha Wildner
[email protected]                                                   Todd D. Taft
[email protected]                                       Todd Fitzgibbon
[email protected]                                       Greg Trimper
[email protected]                                       Thomas Taggart
[email protected]                                    Vitoria Pablo n-2260
[email protected]                                       Victor Paul Sparks
[email protected]                               Christopher M. Conway
wps%[email protected]                         W. P. Schaefer
[email protected]                                                         
[email protected]                     Dave Shariff Yadallee
[email protected]                                                      Jim Yeats

Voted No
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[email protected]                                                       
[email protected]                                              
[email protected]                                          Paulo da Costa
[email protected]                                  Sean P. Ryan
HD0022%[email protected]                           Chip Dunham
[email protected]                                    george m jacobs
[email protected]                                     John R. MacWilliamson
[email protected]                                        Falk Koenemann
[email protected]                                                  
[email protected]                                           Miguel Farah F.
[email protected]                                         A. M. Mughal
[email protected]                                             Richard H. Miller
[email protected]                                       Marc Moorcroft
[email protected]                                                  Dwight Brown
[email protected]                                        Ward F. Bush

Abstained
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[email protected]                                          Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS


Votes in error
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[email protected]                                                 
   ! No vote statement in message
[email protected]                               Chambers, Richard W.
   ! No vote statement in message
[email protected]                                                 Art Goodtimes
   ! No vote statement in message
[email protected]                                      Joe Sneed
   ! Conflicting votes
[email protected]                                              [email protected]
   ! No vote statement in message
[email protected]                                                      JELIKO
   ! No vote statement in message

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