From [email protected] Tue Feb 18 00:16:34 1992 Flags: 000000000211 To: [email protected] Path: watserv1!mims-iris.waterloo.edu!tom From: [email protected] (Tom Haapanen) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.os.os2,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: comp.binaries.os2 : CALL FOR VOTES Date: 20 Feb 90 15:52:53 GMT Sender: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] (Tom Haapanen) Distribution: world Organization: WATMIMS Research Group, University of Waterloo Lines: 57 Keywords: posted CALL FOR VOTES: Create comp.binaries.os2 (moderated). VOTING PERIOD: Feb. 21 1990 to Mar. 14 1990. MODERATOR: Tom Haapanen ([email protected]) CHARTER: This moderated group will be used for distribution of binaries for the OS/2 operating system. The moderation will consist primarily of limiting postings to binaries only, and weeding out any discussion. The moderator will ensure that binaries are suitably packaged, but will not, in general, do any testing of the submissions. Commercial software and demos will not be posted. HOW TO VOTE: Votes must be sent VIA E-MAIL to one of the following adresses: If you wish to vote YES: Internet: [email protected] UUCP: ..!uunet!watmath!mims-iris!yes-vote If you wish to vote NO: Internet: [email protected] UUCP: ..!uunet!watmath!mims-iris!no-vote The vote taker is Tom Haapanen at University of Waterloo ([email protected]). Clearly indicate whether the vote is for (YES) or against (NO) the proposal, preferably by adding the vote to the subject line. Voting relates to comp.binaries.os2 as proposed and nothing else; if you disagree on the proposed name or charter, vote NO or abstain - conditional votes like "YES if ..." or "NO unless ..." will be considered void and invalid. The identity of the voters (E-mail & name) will be extracted from the letters containing the votes by looking at (1) the Reply-To: line if present, or (2) the From: line if it looks OK, or (3) the signature (hopefully this won't be necessary) The received votes will not be acknowledged individually; rather, mass acknowledgements will be posted in the appropriate newsgroups. ---- \tom haapanen "now, you didn't really expect [email protected] my views to have anything to do watmims research group with my employer's, did you?" university of waterloo "I don't even know what street Canada is on" -- Al Capone From [email protected] Tue Feb 18 00:18:39 1992 Flags: 000000000201 From: [email protected] (Tom Haapanen) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.os.os2,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: comp.binaries.os2 : CALL FOR VOTES Date: 27 Feb 90 03:04:45 GMT Reply-To: [email protected] (Tom Haapanen) Distribution: world Organization: WATMIMS Research Group, University of Waterloo Keywords: posted CALL FOR VOTES: Create comp.binaries.os2 (moderated). VOTING PERIOD: Feb. 27 1990 to Mar. 20 1990. MODERATOR: Tom Haapanen ([email protected]) CHARTER: This moderated group will be used for distribution of binaries for the OS/2 operating system. The moderation will consist primarily of limiting postings to binaries only, and weeding out any discussion. The moderator will ensure that binaries are suitably packaged, but will not, in general, do any testing of the submissions. Commercial software and demos will not be posted. NOTE ON THE TIMING OF THE VOTE: The discussion period has indeed exceeded well over four weeks, but I was first absent for two weeks (from Feb. 2nd though 16th), and didn't want to run a vote in absentia. Subsequently, I posted a call for votes on the 20th of February, but it appears to have been lost in the Big Bit- Bucket in the Sky. So, contrary to the letter of the guidelines, but conforming to the spirit of the same, here is the Call for Votes. HOW TO VOTE: Votes must be sent VIA E-MAIL to one of the following adresses: If you wish to vote YES: Internet: [email protected] UUCP: ..!uunet!watmath!mims-iris!yes-vote If you wish to vote NO: Internet: [email protected] UUCP: ..!uunet!watmath!mims-iris!no-vote The vote taker is Tom Haapanen at University of Waterloo ([email protected]). Clearly indicate whether the vote is for (YES) or against (NO) the proposal, preferably by adding the vote to the subject line. Voting relates to comp.binaries.os2 as proposed and nothing else; if you disagree on the proposed name or charter, vote NO or abstain - conditional votes like "YES if ..." or "NO unless ..." will be considered void and invalid. The identity of the voters (E-mail & name) will be extracted from the letters containing the votes by looking at (1) the Reply-To: line if present, or (2) the From: line if it looks OK, or (3) the signature (hopefully this won't be necessary) The received votes will not be acknowledged individually; rather, mass acknowledgements will be posted in the appropriate newsgroups. ---- \tom haapanen "now, you didn't really expect [email protected] my views to have anything to do watmims research group with my employer's, did you?" university of waterloo "I don't even know what street Canada is on" -- Al Capone From [email protected] Tue Feb 18 00:36:59 1992 Flags: 000000000201 From: [email protected] (Tom Haapanen) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups Subject: comp.binaries.os2 PASSES Date: 21 Mar 90 06:02:19 GMT Reply-To: [email protected] (Tom Haapanen) Distribution: world Organization: WATMIMS Research Group, University of Waterloo Keywords: posted 234 valid votes were received by the end of the voting period (until midnight March 20). There were 203 YES votes, and 31 NO votes (86.8% YES). Thus, the group passes according to the Usenet guidelines. I will await five days for a huge influx of unrecorded NO votes, and if none such appears, the group will be created on March 26. Russ Nelson of Clarkson University will archive the postings (thanks, Russ!); any other archive sites would be welcome as well. Please let me know! OS/2 sources should be posted in comp.sources.misc; Brandon Allbery will welcome them there. Out of interest, I classified the voters by domain: here they are: 170 .uucp 75 .edu 34 .com 11 .bitnet 15 .uk (United Kingdom) 11 .fi (Finland) 9 .ca (Canada) 4 .nl (Netherlands) 3 .au (Australia) 2 .se (Sweden) 1 .be (Belgium) 1 .de (Germany) 1 .dk (Denmark) 1 .nz (New Zealand) Thanks for your interest! (This was the easy part; now for moderating...) A list of voters is attached. [ \tom haapanen -- university of waterloo -- [email protected] ] [ "i say what i say, but i say it for myself and myself only" -- me ] [ "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NO votes (31) ------------- Andreas LuikAndrew F. Covie Andy Toy Arthur David Olson Bill Sommerfeld Bill Wisner Bob Weissman Carl Rigney Chip Rosenthal Cliff Tuel Curtis Popoff David Hayes Evan Leibovitch gnf3e Greg A. Woods Greg Davis Ian Dickinson Jeff Anton Jeffrey Carpenter John F. Haugh II Leonard Peirce Pekka Riiali Ron Heiby Ronald S H Khoo Ronnie Kon Russ Nelson ssbell Admin Systems Staff tanner Todd L. Masco Wilber ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YES votes (203) --------------- Aaron Wallace Akira Hatakeyama Alan Ballard Albert Ho Alex Jenkins Alfred Kayser Alfredo Delgado Garza Alistair Alok C. Nigam Andrea Morris Andy Field Andy Greenshaw Aron Roberts B. Scott Henderson Barry Jaspan Bengt Larsson Bill Davidsen Brad Turner Brady Orand Brian Irvine Brian Kaisner Brian Moore Brian Onn Brian Vanlandingham Bruce Kitchin C. Titus Brown C.J.Adie Carlos Rimola Cave Newt Charlie Turner Chip Salzenberg Chris Lang Chris Pikus Conrad Craig Bennett Craig Bosworth Craig Jackson <#[email protected]> D G Booth Dan Veditz Daniel Lee Thompson Darrell Shively Dave Gobran David Brown David Cornell David Edgerton David Morandi david nugent David Rees David Tholen Dennis R. Spexet II Derek Baum Devin E. Ben-Hur Dick Spellman dkb Don Meyer Don Pelton Dwaine VanBibber E. Heinonen Ed A.F. Edmund Reinhardt fff Frederick F. Freeland Frederick K. Ho Geoff Arnold George Browning George Harvey Gerolamo Segetti Gil Pilz Gilmore Greg H. Greg J. Greg Miller Greg Philmon Gregory Bollella Hannu Kulokari Harish Pillay Ian Farquhar Ian Stewartson Irwin M. Fargo Ivan James Wanderer Jan van Oorschot Jeff M. Jerry Porter Jim Held Jim Kunzman John B. "JB" LaRue John Keys John Popp Jon Marinello jonka Joseph D. Shapiro JP Koivisto Judge Dredd Juha I. Seppala Kai Herbing karel Van der Haegen Kari Likovuori Kasey S. Osborn kathryn m sloan Keith Ericson Keith Weir Kennedy David Kevin Lowey Kevin R. Kevin Tomasek Kurt Olender Kyle Peltonen Larry Enos Lee F. Leif Olsen Leila Burrell-Davis Lenox H. Brassell Lewis Bruck Manfred Kremer Mark Johns Mark Lewin Mark Z. Smith Martin Marshall Martyn Legge Massimo Carnevali Matt Harding Maurice Thaler Michael B. Williams Michael Vartanian Michel Biedermann Mike McCann Mike O'Carroll Mike O'Reilly mke Moderator OS/2 Forum Morten Larsen Nick Paizis Nigel Aylott Nigel Sharples notes administrator O Morgan Olli Blackburn Pasi 'PJo' Jokela Patrik Skottsborg Paul Downing Paul Grous Paul H. Wong Paul Verket Pean Lim Peter Jaspers-Fayer Peter Rauch Prof. Alberto Gambi R. Dru Henke Ralph Yozzo Randall Atkinson Randall McCaskill Randy D. Randy N. Ray Dunn Rene Baart Richard A. Schafer Richard B. Edelman Richard H. Miller Richard Oppenheimer Robert Kennewick Robertson John MAJ rocks Roland Schock Roland Wroblewski Samuel Lam Sandy Sang Shin Scott Heyano Sean Fitts Sebastian Rahtz Shijong Kuo Sigurd Andersen Simon A Reap smeans Srinivasan Seshan Stephane Desmarais Steve Ackerman Steve H. Steve Hoole Steve Schonberger Steven Mackey Tapani Tarvainen Teemu Mottonen Terence Davis Tim Forsyth Tim Henrion Timo T Hakulinen Timothy Smith Todd Fincannon Todd Greenwald Tom Dinger Tom Haapanen Tony Olejnik W Christopher Martin Wayne Chin Wayne Davison Wayne Johnson Wayne Nichols WHP_vHulzen Wilf William C. Marsh Wolfgang Strobl