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From [email protected] Mon Jul 24 18:08:55 1995 Path: uunet!in1.uu.net!bounce-back From: Vibhu Mittal <[email protected]> Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,misc.consumers,misc.consumers.house Subject: RFD: misc.consumers.spas-and-pools Followup-To: news.groups Date: 20 Jul 1995 18:10:44 -0400 Organization: cs.pitt.edu Lines: 51 Sender: [email protected] Approved: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:7186 news.groups:160284 misc.consumers:126018 misc.consumers.house:107916                       REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)            unmoderated group misc.consumers.spas-and-pools  Summary         Discussion of all aspects of maintaining spas and pools Proponent       Vibhu O. Mittal <[email protected]> Status		unmoderated  This is a formal request for discussion on the creation of an unmoderated newsgroup, misc.consumers.spas-and-pools.  It is also proposed that misc.consumers be renamed misc.consumers.misc, in accordance with usenet tradition.  It is possible to vote down the rename while creating the new group.                                RATIONALE                               ---------  A number of spa and pool related questions frequently show up on misc.consumers.house. The group misc.consumers.house has sufficient traffic (100+ messages/day) that it would be good to move discussion on spas and pools to its own newsgroup.                                    CHARTER                                 -------  The scope of the proposed newsgroup misc.consumers.spas-and-pools should include but not be limitied to:         - the construction and maintenance of pools and spas         - equipment (filters, heaters, vacuums, covers)         - alternative technologies to chlorine for water disinfection            - bromine            - ionic devices, etc         - repairs         - materials, chemicals and pool/spa accessories         - safety         - landscaping issues related to pools         - business issues  The discussions will be held in English. FAQs should be developed for specific areas of interest and will be posted to the group on a periodic basis. Reasonable commercial announcements will be permitted as long as they are clearly marked as such in the subject of the message. This newsgroup is not intended to be a marketplace.                                 ARCHIVE                                -------  The content of the postings to misc.consumers.spas-and-pools will be archived and made researchable via FTP, URL, or other such means.  From [email protected] Mon Aug 21 17:04:01 1995 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Bill Aten) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,misc.consumers.house,rec.sport.swimming Subject: CFV: misc.consumers.spas-and-pools Followup-To: poster Date: 21 Aug 1995 21:03:56 -0000 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Lines: 157 Sender: [email protected] Approved: [email protected] Expires: 12 Sep 1995 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Archive-Name: misc.consumers.spas-and-pools Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:7378 news.groups:165338 misc.consumers.house:111209 rec.sport.swimming:14978                       FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)            unmoderated group misc.consumers.spas-and-pools  Newsgroups line: misc.consumers.spas-and-pools	Spas and swimming pools.  Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 11 Sep 1995.  This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  For voting questions only, contact the votetaker, Bill Aten <[email protected]>.  For questions about the proposed group, contact the proponent, Vibhu Mittal <[email protected]>.  RATIONALE:  A large number of spa and pool related questions frequently show up on misc.consumers.house.  The group misc.consumers.house has sufficient traffic (100+ messages/day) that it would be good to move discussion on spas and pools to its own newsgroup.  Furthermore, the lack of a group devoted to pools inhibits many people from posting specific questions about water treatment, pool chemistry instruments, etc. to misc.consumers.house.  A newsgroup on pools and spas will be able to generate FAQs and facilitate discussions on all aspects of pools and spas.  CHARTER: misc.consumers.spas-and-pools  The scope of the proposed newsgroup misc.consumers.spas-and-pools will include, but not be limited to:        - the construction and maintenance of pools and spas        - equipment (filters, heaters, vacuums, covers)        - alternative technologies to chlorine for water disinfection           - bromine           - ionic devices, etc.        - repairs        - materials, chemicals and pool/spa accessories        - safety        - landscaping issues related to pools        - business issues  The discussions will be held in English.  FAQs will be developed for specific areas of interest and will be posted to the group on a periodic basis.  Reasonable commercial announcements will be permitted as long as they are clearly marked as such in the subject of the message. This newsgroup is not intended to be a marketplace.  END CHARTER.  HOW TO VOTE  Erase everything above the "BEGINNING OF BALLOT" line and erase everything below the "END OF BALLOT" line.  Do not erase anything between these lines, and do not change the group name.  In other words, remove everything except the ballot.  It will be greatly appreciated by the votetaker if you do NOT forward the entire CFV back to me--this mail is archived.  Give your name on the line that asks for it.  To vote, place a YES in the brackets to vote for it, or place a NO in the brackets to vote against it. If you don't want to vote on the group, place an ABSTAIN in the brackets. If you leave the bracket blank, your vote will be rejected for failure to cast a vote.  Don't worry about the spacing of the columns or any quote characters (">") that your reply inserts.  Then MAIL the ballot to:  <[email protected]> Just Replying to this message should work, but check the "To:" line.  Quick voting checklist: 1) Fill in the ballot form below.  Don't forget to include your Real Name. 2) Delete everything but the ballot in your reply to this CFV. 3) Make sure your reply goes to <[email protected]>.  ===== BEGINNING OF BALLOT: Delete everything BEFORE this line =============  *** PLEASE ***     DO NOT alter, modify, or delete any of the information in this ballot!  misc.consumers.spas-and-pools Ballot  (Do not remove this marker!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Examples showing how to indicate your vote (DO NOT vote in this section):  [     YES ]  example.yes.vote [      NO ]  example.no.vote [ ABSTAIN ]  example.abstention ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  In order to properly record your vote, please provide your REAL NAME and indicate your desired vote in the following sections: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  Give your Real Name here (on this line) --> (If you do not give your real name, your vote may be rejected.)  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  Insert your vote inside the brackets for each newsgroup listed below:   Your Vote   Group  ---------   ----- [         ]  misc.consumers.spas-and-pools ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  ===== END OF BALLOT: Delete everything AFTER this line ====================  IMPORTANT VOTING PROCEDURE NOTES  Anything other than the official ballot may be rejected by the automatic vote counting program.  The votetaker will respond to your received ballots with an automated acknowledgement by e-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.  If you later change your mind, you may vote again.  To erase your vote and eliminate your address and vote from the final results listing, vote again using the CANCEL example shown above.  Just be aware that duplicate votes will be resolved in favor of the most recent valid vote.  Anonymous votes will not be accepted.  Votes mailed by WWW/HTML/CGI forms are considered anonymous votes (the vote must be mailed directly from the voter to the votetaker).  Neither ABSTAIN nor CANCEL messages are counted as votes; they serve only to cancel any previous vote.  Abstentions are noted in the final vote list, whereas CANCEL removes your vote from that list entirely (this is the only difference between the two).  In cases where voting fraud is determined to have occurred, it is standard operating procedure to delete ALL votes submitted by the violator.  There will be a five-day period following the voting period during which the published vote list may be corrected and any irregularities addressed. The requirements for group creation are 100 more YES votes than NO votes, and 2/3 of all counted votes must be YES.  When in doubt, ask the votetaker.  OFFICIAL SOURCES OF THE CFV  IMPORTANT:  If anyone gave you a pre-completed ballot which did not leave the voting choice up to you, you should modify the vote to reflect your choice of YES, NO or ABSTAIN next to the item in the ballot.  If you give anyone copies of the CFV, the copies must be whole and unmodified.  Distributing pre-filled in ballots or modified copies of this CFV is considered voting fraud.  The only official sources for copies of this CFV are the UseNet newsgroups to which it is posted including news.announce.newgroups, and the e-mail server at    <[email protected]> The CFV server will return a copy of the CFV to the sender.  Your message may be left empty because any contents will be ignored.  DISTRIBUTION  This CFV has been cross-posted to:   news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, misc.consumers.house,   rec.sport.swimming  From [email protected] Tue Sep  5 15:36:01 1995 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Bill Aten) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,misc.consumers.house,rec.sport.swimming Subject: 2nd CFV: misc.consumers.spas-and-pools Followup-To: poster Date: 5 Sep 1995 19:35:57 -0000 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Lines: 158 Sender: [email protected] Approved: [email protected] Expires: 12 Sep 1995 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Archive-Name: misc.consumers.spas-and-pools Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:7452 news.groups:166854 misc.consumers.house:112775 rec.sport.swimming:15433                  2nd & FINAL CALL FOR VOTES (2nd of 2)            unmoderated group misc.consumers.spas-and-pools  Newsgroups line: misc.consumers.spas-and-pools	Spas and swimming pools.  Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 11 Sep 1995.  This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  For voting questions only, contact the votetaker, Bill Aten <[email protected]>.  For questions about the proposed group, contact the proponent, Vibhu Mittal <[email protected]>.  RATIONALE:  A large number of spa and pool related questions frequently show up on misc.consumers.house.  The group misc.consumers.house has sufficient traffic (100+ messages/day) that it would be good to move discussion on spas and pools to its own newsgroup.  Furthermore, the lack of a group devoted to pools inhibits many people from posting specific questions about water treatment, pool chemistry instruments, etc. to misc.consumers.house.  A newsgroup on pools and spas will be able to generate FAQs and facilitate discussions on all aspects of pools and spas.  CHARTER: misc.consumers.spas-and-pools  The scope of the proposed newsgroup misc.consumers.spas-and-pools will include, but not be limited to:        - the construction and maintenance of pools and spas        - equipment (filters, heaters, vacuums, covers)        - alternative technologies to chlorine for water disinfection           - bromine           - ionic devices, etc.        - repairs        - materials, chemicals and pool/spa accessories        - safety        - landscaping issues related to pools        - business issues  The discussions will be held in English.  FAQs will be developed for specific areas of interest and will be posted to the group on a periodic basis.  Reasonable commercial announcements will be permitted as long as they are clearly marked as such in the subject of the message. This newsgroup is not intended to be a marketplace.  END CHARTER.  HOW TO VOTE  Erase everything above the "BEGINNING OF BALLOT" line and erase everything below the "END OF BALLOT" line.  Do not erase anything between these lines, and do not change the group name.  In other words, remove everything except the ballot.  It will be greatly appreciated by the votetaker if you do NOT forward the entire CFV back to me--this mail is archived.  Give your name on the line that asks for it.  To vote, place a YES in the brackets to vote for it, or place a NO in the brackets to vote against it. If you don't want to vote on the group, place an ABSTAIN in the brackets. If you leave the bracket blank, your vote will be rejected for failure to cast a vote.  Don't worry about the spacing of the columns or any quote characters (">") that your reply inserts.  Then MAIL the ballot to:  <[email protected]> Just Replying to this message should work, but check the "To:" line.  Quick voting checklist: 1) Fill in the ballot form below.  Don't forget to include your Real Name. 2) Delete everything but the ballot in your reply to this CFV. 3) Make sure your reply goes to <[email protected]>.  ===== BEGINNING OF BALLOT: Delete everything BEFORE this line =============  *** PLEASE ***     DO NOT alter, modify, or delete any of the information in this ballot!  misc.consumers.spas-and-pools Ballot  (Do not remove this marker!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Examples showing how to indicate your vote (DO NOT vote in this section):  [     YES ]  example.yes.vote [      NO ]  example.no.vote [ ABSTAIN ]  example.abstention ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  In order to properly record your vote, please provide your REAL NAME and indicate your desired vote in the following sections: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  Give your Real Name here (on this line) --> (If you do not give your real name, your vote may be rejected.)  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  Insert your vote inside the brackets for each newsgroup listed below:   Your Vote   Group  ---------   ----- [         ]  misc.consumers.spas-and-pools ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  ===== END OF BALLOT: Delete everything AFTER this line ====================  IMPORTANT VOTING PROCEDURE NOTES  Anything other than the official ballot may be rejected by the automatic vote counting program.  The votetaker will respond to your received ballots with an automated acknowledgement by e-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.  If you later change your mind, you may vote again.  To erase your vote and eliminate your address and vote from the final results listing, vote again using the CANCEL example shown above.  Just be aware that duplicate votes will be resolved in favor of the most recent valid vote.  Anonymous votes will not be accepted.  Votes mailed by WWW/HTML/CGI forms are considered anonymous votes (the vote must be mailed directly from the voter to the votetaker).  Neither ABSTAIN nor CANCEL messages are counted as votes; they serve only to cancel any previous vote.  Abstentions are noted in the final vote list, whereas CANCEL removes your vote from that list entirely (this is the only difference between the two).  In cases where voting fraud is determined to have occurred, it is standard operating procedure to delete ALL votes submitted by the violator.  There will be a five-day period following the voting period during which the published vote list may be corrected and any irregularities addressed. The requirements for group creation are 100 more YES votes than NO votes, and 2/3 of all counted votes must be YES.  When in doubt, ask the votetaker.  OFFICIAL SOURCES OF THE CFV  IMPORTANT:  If anyone gave you a pre-completed ballot which did not leave the voting choice up to you, you should modify the vote to reflect your choice of YES, NO or ABSTAIN next to the item in the ballot.  If you give anyone copies of the CFV, the copies must be whole and unmodified.  Distributing pre-filled in ballots or modified copies of this CFV is considered voting fraud.  The only official sources for copies of this CFV are the UseNet newsgroups to which it is posted including news.announce.newgroups, and the e-mail server at    <[email protected]> The CFV server will return a copy of the CFV to the sender.  Your message may be left empty because any contents will be ignored.  DISTRIBUTION  This CFV has been cross-posted to:   news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, misc.consumers.house,   rec.sport.swimming ==============================================================================  From [email protected] Tue Sep 12 16:17:10 1995 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Bill Aten) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,misc.consumers.house,rec.sport.swimming Subject: RESULT: misc.consumers.spas-and-pools fails 77:22 Followup-To: news.groups Date: 12 Sep 1995 20:17:02 -0000 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Lines: 171 Sender: [email protected] Approved: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Archive-Name: misc.consumers.spas-and-pools Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:7508 news.groups:167324 misc.consumers.house:113460 rec.sport.swimming:15646                                  RESULT      unmoderated group misc.consumers.spas-and-pools fails 77:22  Voting for the misc.consumers.spas-and-pools newsgroup ended 23:59:59 UTC, 11 Sep 1995.  This vote was conducted by a neutral third party.  For voting questions only, contact the votetaker, Bill Aten <[email protected]>. For questions about the proposed group, contact the proponent, Vibhu Mittal <[email protected]>.  There were 99 valid votes submitted during the voting period.  The proposed newsgroup, in order to pass, must have at least 2/3 YES votes and at least 100 more YES than NO votes.  The result is as follows:  misc.consumers.spas-and-pools results - 99 valid votes   Yes   No : 2/3? >100? : Pass? : Group ---- ---- : ---- ----- : ----- : -------------------------------------------   77   22 :  Yes    No :    No : misc.consumers.spas-and-pools    1 abstaining vote  and 1 invalid vote  The proposal failed.  There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted. Unless serious and significant allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the proposal may not be voted on again for six months.  The remainder of the results contains    Newsgroups Line    Charter    Final Voting Acknowledgements  NEWSGROUPS LINE  misc.consumers.spas-and-pools	Spas and swimming pools.  CHARTER: misc.consumers.spas-and-pools  The scope of the proposed newsgroup misc.consumers.spas-and-pools will include, but not be limited to:        - the construction and maintenance of pools and spas        - equipment (filters, heaters, vacuums, covers)        - alternative technologies to chlorine for water disinfection           - bromine           - ionic devices, etc.        - repairs        - materials, chemicals and pool/spa accessories        - safety        - landscaping issues related to pools        - business issues  The discussions will be held in English.  FAQs will be developed for specific areas of interest and will be posted to the group on a periodic basis.  Reasonable commercial announcements will be permitted as long as they are clearly marked as such in the subject of the message. This newsgroup is not intended to be a marketplace.  END CHARTER.  FINAL VOTING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  misc.consumers.spas-and-pools Final Vote Ack                                               misc.consumers.spas-and-pools ---+                                                                              | [email protected]                                                         Aahz Y [email protected]                                         Jonathan Adair Y [email protected]                                          Andrew Dennie Y [email protected]                                        Andrew Mossberg Y [email protected]                                      Andrew H. Marrinson N [email protected]                                           Ananda M. Kar N [email protected]                                       Stephanie da Silva N [email protected]                                                 Balaji N [email protected]                                                   Pete Bellas Y [email protected]                                           Blake Brewer Y [email protected]                                       Brian Bebeau Y [email protected]                                                  Brus Wasson Y [email protected]                                            Barbara Ling Y [email protected]                                          Cathy Kearns Y [email protected]                                            Cathy Vitale Y [email protected]                                               J R Celoni Y [email protected]                                        Claire S. Y [email protected]                                       Chris Stamper Y [email protected]                                   K. Crouch - [email protected]                                             Michiel Wijers N [email protected]                                               Kevin Sullivan Y [email protected]                                            Don Harris Y [email protected]                                                Danny Chan Y [email protected]                                      Jay Dettmer Y [email protected]                            Diane Peterson Y [email protected]                                                       Ryan Y [email protected]                                             Topher Eliot Y [email protected]                                                  Rick Ellis Y [email protected]                                            Mark Stevens Y [email protected]                                           Fred Schenkelberg Y [email protected]                                       glen diener Y [email protected]                                     George Kimble Y [email protected]                                      Matthew Hepp Y [email protected]                                                 Steve Hillman Y [email protected]                                       Cynthia Sellers Y [email protected]                                                Ian R. Gould Y [email protected]                                    Jan Coekelberghs N [email protected]                                               Jerry Ennis N [email protected]                                                     Jip de Y [email protected]                                     John L. Letsche Y [email protected]                                                 Trevor Tymchuk Y [email protected]                                     J. Porter Clark Y [email protected]                                             Jan Penovich Y [email protected]                                      Jerry Reeves Y [email protected]                                   John R. MacWilliamson N [email protected]                                             Ken Diliberto Y [email protected]                                               G. K. Khalsa Y [email protected]                                               Larry Smith Y [email protected]                                Martin Schr"oder Y [email protected]                                          Roy Hellinga Y [email protected]                                                Y [email protected]                                          Mark Armstrong Y [email protected]                                         Marc Moorcroft N [email protected]                                          Matt Nieberger Y [email protected]                                                  Mark Atwood Y [email protected]                                    Robert George Mayer Y [email protected]                                               Mike Northam Y [email protected]                                              Mary Firenze Y [email protected]                                           Vibhu O. Mittal Y [email protected]                                        M Mike Taksar KC6ZPS N [email protected]                                          bob nedbal N [email protected]                                         Domingo Garcia Y [email protected]                                                Rob Nix Y [email protected]                                                   Ole Vik Y [email protected]                                          David Coe Y [email protected]                                                  Bob Page Y [email protected]                                 Patrick J. LoPresti N [email protected]                                          Philip Decker Y [email protected]                                             Peter Berger N [email protected]                                   Joseph S. Polvino Y [email protected]                                           Bob Hansen Y [email protected]                                              Richard Miller Y [email protected]                                                   Rick Cell Y [email protected]                                           Robert Marvin N [email protected]                                    Ollivier Robert N [email protected]                                         Robert B Macdonald Y [email protected]                              Dave Moore N [email protected]                                          J. Rufinus Y [email protected]                                                       Bob Virzi Y [email protected]                                                   Scott Kenney N [email protected]                                      Sandra Bushnell Y [email protected]                               Korella Selzler Y [email protected]                                               Shapard Wolf Y [email protected]                                           Shawn M. Herzinger Y [email protected]                                Erick Singley Y sjf%[email protected]                                  Steve Fenster Y [email protected]                                                Dwight Brown N [email protected]                                           Stan Jaffe Y [email protected]                                   Eric B. Stauffer Y [email protected]                                          Sujata Banerjee Y [email protected]                                                Nancy Tucker Y [email protected]                                           Peter Tang Y [email protected]                                                 Tony Basoglu N [email protected]                                            David L. Collard Y [email protected]                            Todd C. Lawson N [email protected]                        Harold F. Vandercook Y [email protected]                                       Risto Widenius N [email protected]                                            David L. Hanson Y [email protected]                                               P. Tufts N [email protected]                                                     Zot O'Connor Y   Votes in error ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [email protected]                                                     pete lurie    ! No vote statement in message