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From [email protected] Tue Nov 16 16:40:57 1993 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Brian Beker) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.config,soc.culture.thai Subject: RFD: soc.culture.burma Followup-To: news.groups Date: 16 Nov 1993 14:16:36 -0500 Organization: Oasis Pictures Lines: 33 Sender: [email protected] Approved: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:4276 news.groups:87870 alt.config:22219 soc.culture.thai:13767  This is a Request for Discussion for the creation of a new group,  soc.culture.burma.  WHY?  Burma is the largest nation of southeast Asia, and has been in the throes of a civil war for decades.  Burma is one of the most isolated countries in the world, and a place where political discussion is forbidden by law.  Currently, netnews discussion of Burma is relegated to soc.culture.thai and bit.listserv.seasia-l.  As for the former, posting to the Thai group is inappropriate, because not only is it a group concerned with another nation, but also a nation whose industrial and political activities vis-a-vis Burma are often called into question.  Some people feel that having to discuss Burma on the Thai group is like having to discuss Tibet on a China group -- only sometimes appropriate.  As for bit.listserv.seasia-l, open discussion is discouraged by the listowner, because of its primary purpose as a distribution point of non-opinion based news.    CHARTER  soc.culture.burma will be an unmoderated forum for the posting of any and  all news relating to Burma, as well as opinion and discussion about any  aspect of Burmese politics, ethnicity, life, culture, society or war.  It will serve to hasten the end of the informationally-repressive  circumstances affecting the Burmese people and land and anyone interested  in them.  Thanks for your time and consideration.  Brian Beker  From [email protected] Tue Dec  7 18:06:21 1993 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Ed Bailey) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.thai,bit.listserv.seasia-l,soc.culture.afghanistan,soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.rights.human,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.indonesia,alt.india.progressive Subject: CFV: soc.culture.burma Followup-To: poster Date: 7 Dec 1993 15:51:01 -0500 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Lines: 101 Sender: [email protected] Approved: [email protected] Expires: 3 Jan 1994 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:4370 news.groups:89554 soc.culture.thai:14408 bit.listserv.seasia-l:8302 soc.culture.afghanistan:3391 soc.culture.bangladesh:17499 soc.culture.europe:25547 soc.culture.japan:44329 soc.culture.pakistan:51402 soc.rights.human:16304 soc.culture.malaysia:10757 soc.culture.indonesia:4897 alt.india.progressive:309                  FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (1st of 2)  Unmoderated group soc.culture.burma  Newsgroups line: soc.culture.burma       Politics, culture, news, discussion about Burma  Votes must be recieved by 23:59 GMT, 2 January 1994.  This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  Voting questions should be directed to Ed Bailey <[email protected]>.  For questions about the proposed group, please contact the proposer, Brian Beker  <[email protected]>.  CHARTER  soc.culture.burma will be an unmoderated forum for the posting of any and all news, opinion, discussion and information relating to any aspect of Burmese politics, ethnicity, life, culture, religion, travel, society or  war.   It will be a forum in which diverse opinions and unfettered debate will be encouraged, without regard to political, philosophical, religious or personal bias.   It will serve to hasten the end of the informationally-repressive  circumstances affecting the Burmese people and land and anyone interested  in them.  No commercial offers of any kind will be permitted on soc.culture.burma, though information of the nature of money-saving travel tips will be allowed as long as they do not constitute any direct offers to sell any services or merchandise.   OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION  Burma is the largest nation of mainland southeast Asia, and has been in the throes of a civil war for decades.  Burma is one of the most isolated countries in the world, and a place where political discussion or, for that matter, any gathering of more than four people, is forbidden by law.  The people of Burma have exerted a major influence on several areas including religion, music, literature and art and philosophy. The difficulty of accessing information about any of these subjects warrants the birth of this new group.   Currently, netnews discussion of Burma is relegated to soc.culture.thai and bit.listserv.seasia-l.  Posting to the Thai group is inappropriate, because it is concerned with another nation, and often burdened with Burma topics that would be better relegated to a news group of its own.  Creation of soc.culture.burma will enable other netnews users to locate Burma topics without difficulty.  And as for bit.listserv.seasia-l, the intention of the group is to provide news about Southeast Asia without the considerable traffic that ensuing discussion may cause. In this way, soc.culture.burma will augment these groups, not detract from them.   The questions raised during the discussion period had to do with the use of the name .burma as opposed to .myanmar.  The decision to go with .burma was based on three factors: first, every Burmese respondent to the RFD supported the group as soc.culture.burma; second, as another poster pointed out, .burma is much more familiar and therefore practical to netnews users; and, third, because no one voiced solid objections to  .burma.  A few posters asked about the proper use of name, but did not  object to .burma.  soc.culture.burma, in the finest tradition of the Internet, would contribute to the free flow of information about this richly fascinating nation and its people.    STANDARD VOTING INFO  You should send MAIL (posts to a group are invalid) to       [email protected] (just replying by MAIL to this message should work).  Your mail message should contain one and only one of the following statements:        I vote YES on soc.culture.burma or       I vote NO on soc.culture.burma  You may add a comment, but anything other than a definite statement involving the group name and "yes", "no", "for", or "against" on a single line may be rejected by the automatic vote counting program. If you later change your mind you may also use send in an "abstain" vote in the same manner, using "abstain" in place of "yes" or "no".  You should receive an acknowledgement (via email) of your vote within one to three days.  Additional CFVs will NOT include mass ACKs, only ACKs for undeliverable mail.  Standard Guidelines for voting apply:  One vote per person (regardless of how many accounts you have) and one vote per account (regardless of how many people use that account).  Votes from system accounts, e.g. root, postmaster, et al., and votes from anonymous accounts will be rejected.  100 more YES votes than NO votes and 2/3 of all votes being YES are the requirements for group creation. --  Ed Bailey                | Voice: (512) 471-4198   Fax: (512) 471-6715 Inst. for Fusion Studies | Internet: [email protected]{hagar,ziggy}.ph.utexas.edu, Univ. of Texas at Austin |   [email protected], or [email protected] Austin TX  78712         | "No pithy quotes.  Just email addresses."  From [email protected] Thu Dec 16 15:49:10 1993 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Ed Bailey) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.thai,bit.listserv.seasia-l,soc.culture.afghanistan,soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.rights.human,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.indonesia,alt.india.progressive Subject: 2nd CFV: soc.culture.burma Supersedes: <[email protected]> Followup-To: news.groups Date: 15 Dec 1993 14:53:16 -0500 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Lines: 123 Sender: [email protected] Approved: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:4412 news.groups:90291 soc.culture.thai:14687 bit.listserv.seasia-l:8466 soc.culture.afghanistan:3440 soc.culture.bangladesh:17642 soc.culture.europe:25803 soc.culture.japan:44994 soc.culture.pakistan:51951 soc.rights.human:16375 soc.culture.malaysia:11114 soc.culture.indonesia:5124 alt.india.progressive:321                  SECOND AND FINAL CALL FOR VOTES (2nd of 2)  Unmoderated group soc.culture.burma  Newsgroups line: soc.culture.burma       Politics, culture, news, discussion about Burma  Votes must be recieved by 23:59 GMT, 2 January 1994.  This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  Voting questions should be directed to Ed Bailey <[email protected]>.  For questions about the proposed group, please contact the proposer, Brian Beker  <[email protected]>.  CHARTER  soc.culture.burma will be an unmoderated forum for the posting of any and all news, opinion, discussion and information relating to any aspect of Burmese politics, ethnicity, life, culture, religion, travel, society or  war.   It will be a forum in which diverse opinions and unfettered debate will be encouraged, without regard to political, philosophical, religious or personal bias.   It will serve to hasten the end of the informationally-repressive  circumstances affecting the Burmese people and land and anyone interested  in them.  No commercial offers of any kind will be permitted on soc.culture.burma, though information of the nature of money-saving travel tips will be allowed as long as they do not constitute any direct offers to sell any services or merchandise.   OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION  Burma is the largest nation of mainland southeast Asia, and has been in the throes of a civil war for decades.  Burma is one of the most isolated countries in the world, and a place where political discussion or, for that matter, any gathering of more than four people, is forbidden by law.  The people of Burma have exerted a major influence on several areas including religion, music, literature and art and philosophy. The difficulty of accessing information about any of these subjects warrants the birth of this new group.   Currently, netnews discussion of Burma is relegated to soc.culture.thai and bit.listserv.seasia-l.  Posting to the Thai group is inappropriate, because it is concerned with another nation, and often burdened with Burma topics that would be better relegated to a news group of its own.  Creation of soc.culture.burma will enable other netnews users to locate Burma topics without difficulty.  And as for bit.listserv.seasia-l, the intention of the group is to provide news about Southeast Asia without the considerable traffic that ensuing discussion may cause. In this way, soc.culture.burma will augment these groups, not detract from them.   The questions raised during the discussion period had to do with the use of the name .burma as opposed to .myanmar.  The decision to go with .burma was based on three factors: first, every Burmese respondent to the RFD supported the group as soc.culture.burma; second, as another poster pointed out, .burma is much more familiar and therefore practical to netnews users; and, third, because no one voiced solid objections to  .burma.  A few posters asked about the proper use of name, but did not  object to .burma.  soc.culture.burma, in the finest tradition of the Internet, would contribute to the free flow of information about this richly fascinating nation and its people.    STANDARD VOTING INFO  You should send MAIL (posts to a group are invalid) to       [email protected] (just replying by MAIL to this message should work).  Your mail message should contain one and only one of the following statements:        I vote YES on soc.culture.burma or       I vote NO on soc.culture.burma  You may add a comment, but anything other than a definite statement involving the group name and "yes", "no", "for", or "against" on a single line may be rejected by the automatic vote counting program. If you later change your mind you may also use send in an "abstain" vote in the same manner, using "abstain" in place of "yes" or "no".  You should receive an acknowledgement (via email) of your vote within one to three days.  Additional CFVs will NOT include mass ACKs, only ACKs for undeliverable mail.  Standard Guidelines for voting apply:  One vote per person (regardless of how many accounts you have) and one vote per account (regardless of how many people use that account).  Votes from system accounts, e.g. root, postmaster, et al., and votes from anonymous accounts will be rejected.  100 more YES votes than NO votes and 2/3 of all votes being YES are the requirements for group creation.  BOUNCED VOTE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  All votes received by December 13th, 23:59 GMT have been counted and ACKed. Vote acknowledgements sent to the following addresses have bounced.  These votes *have* been counted, but I have been unable to reply to their mail. If you voted, but you have NOT received an ACK *and* your name is NOT listed below, then your vote was probably lost somewhere in the ether.  Please send another vote to [email protected]  Voter: [email protected] Voter: [email protected] Voter: [email protected]  The following people have sent malformed ballots which have not been superceded by a Yes, No, or Abstain vote.  These people should revote.  [email protected] [email protected]  Ed Bailey Votetaker for soc.culture.burma --  Ed Bailey                | Voice: (512) 471-4198   Fax: (512) 471-6715 Inst. for Fusion Studies | Internet: [email protected]{hagar,ziggy}.ph.utexas.edu, Univ. of Texas at Austin |   [email protected], or [email protected] Austin TX  78712         | "No pithy quotes.  Just email addresses."  From [email protected] Mon Jan  3 17:50:45 1994 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Ed Bailey) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.thai,bit.listserv.seasia-l,soc.culture.afghanistan,soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.rights.human,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.indonesia,alt.india.progressive Subject: RESULT: soc.culture.burma passes 227:11 Followup-To: news.groups Date: 3 Jan 1994 16:59:09 -0500 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Lines: 322 Sender: [email protected] Approved: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:4439 news.groups:91322 soc.culture.thai:15444 bit.listserv.seasia-l:8640 soc.culture.afghanistan:3517 soc.culture.bangladesh:17881 soc.culture.europe:26350 soc.culture.japan:46122 soc.culture.pakistan:52794 soc.rights.human:16493 soc.culture.malaysia:11690 soc.culture.indonesia:5530 alt.india.progressive:337                          VOTE RESULT  Unmoderated group soc.culture.burma  UseVote 2.0a Vote Count - (c) 1993 Ron Dippold soc.culture.burma group vote results - 238 valid votes   Yes   No : 2/3? >100? : Pass? : Group ---- ---- : ---- ----- : ----- : -------------------------------------------  227   11 :  Yes   Yes :   Yes : soc.culture.burma  Voting closed 23:59 GMT, 2 January 1994.  253 votes were received. 11 votes were discarded as duplicates or superceded.  4 invalid ballots were not corrected.  This margin is adequate for newgroup creation.  There will now be a five-day period during which corrections to the vote count may be made.  Barring massive controversy about the vote, the group will  be created at the end of this period.  Newsgroups line: soc.culture.burma	Politics, culture, news, discussion about Burma  This vote was conducted by a neutral third party. Votetaker: Ed Bailey ([email protected]) Proponent: Brian Beker ([email protected])  CHARTER  soc.culture.burma will be an unmoderated forum for the posting of any and all news, opinion, discussion and information relating to any aspect of Burmese politics, ethnicity, life, culture, religion, travel, society or  war.   It will be a forum in which diverse opinions and unfettered debate will be encouraged, without regard to political, philosophical, religious or personal bias.   It will serve to hasten the end of the informationally-repressive  circumstances affecting the Burmese people and land and anyone interested  in them.  No commercial offers of any kind will be permitted on soc.culture.burma, though information of the nature of money-saving travel tips will be allowed as long as they do not constitute any direct offers to sell any services or merchandise.   OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION  Burma is the largest nation of mainland southeast Asia, and has been in the throes of a civil war for decades.  Burma is one of the most isolated countries in the world, and a place where political discussion or, for that matter, any gathering of more than four people, is forbidden by law.  The people of Burma have exerted a major influence on several areas including religion, music, literature and art and philosophy. The difficulty of accessing information about any of these subjects warrants the birth of this new group.    soc.culture.burma group vote Final Vote Ack   Yes Votes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [email protected]                                    Richard Nicolella [email protected]                                    Michael J. Wilson [email protected]                                                               [email protected]                                               Angappa Gunasekaran [email protected]                                           Noel Evans [email protected]                                     Danine Geronazzo [email protected]                                  Alan Steiner (ADAMS) [email protected]                                                       Al Day [email protected]                                                              [email protected]                                                         [email protected]                                               Aung Thein [email protected]                                                      aye naing [email protected]                                                        [email protected]                                       Asia--the 1st. [email protected]                                                       [email protected]                                                    [email protected]                                                 Sara Sutcliffe [email protected]                           Berkeley Borneo Big Home Project [email protected]                                                   Brian Beker [email protected]                                                Gardner Cohen [email protected]                                                            [email protected]                             R. F. Benningfield [email protected]                                                    [email protected]                                                Naren B. [email protected]                                      Buddhist Peace Fellowship [email protected]                                                       Paul Lin [email protected]                                                       [email protected]                                    ANTHONY LEE, SEQEB [email protected]                                           Brian K Tanaka [email protected]                                        burma [email protected]                                            Cameron Beatty [email protected]                              Craig William BURLEY [email protected]                                    Sagun Karmacharya [email protected]                                                  Cynthia Foo [email protected]                                  Maneesawarng Chaiwat [email protected]                                               Hong Chen [email protected]                                             CHERRY [email protected]                                         Charles Scheiner [email protected]                                                      [email protected]                                           David Chu [email protected]                                        William Galloway [email protected]                                                Jim deGeus [email protected]                                   Robert D. Hoffman [email protected]                                                             [email protected]                                    Dianne Murray [email protected]                                         Doug Kaufman [email protected]                                     Rebecca Drayer [email protected]                                              Paul Durham [email protected]                                       Erik B. Pedersen [email protected]                                             Ejaz Ahmad [email protected]                                             Robert Estes [email protected]                                          Foreign Bases Project [email protected]                                           David Finley [email protected]                                                  [email protected]                                    Steve Frampton [email protected]                                Gregory C Franklin [email protected]                                      Ganesh Pandey [email protected]                                           [email protected]                                                   Gil Neiger [email protected]                                                                [email protected]                                            Bob Goudreau [email protected]                                        Stephen Graham [email protected]                                  Greg Musiela [email protected]                           Gunnar Dalseth [email protected]                                                Haskia Hasson [email protected]                                       hassan monu alam [email protected]                                                               [email protected]                                      Hitendra Desai [email protected]                                Maung Htun. (216) 672-3146 [email protected]                                           Ibnu Purwana [email protected]                                                       [email protected]                                           Arief Suharko [email protected]                       Itthi Trisirisatayawong [email protected]                                               Ivan Yeung [email protected]                                                 Mark James [email protected]                                           Jeroen Hellingman [email protected]                                     Joyce Lin Costello [email protected]                                          John MacArthur [email protected]                                  Jeanne Michelle Ryan [email protected]                                                                  [email protected]                                             Jonas Skeppstedt [email protected]                                       [email protected]                                                     [email protected]                                            Kanhaiya Vaidya [email protected]                                           Sher Karki [email protected]                                     Keshab Bhattarai [email protected]                                          Robert Taylor [email protected]                                     Salmaan Keshavjee [email protected]                                                   Mike Khaw [email protected]                                 Evan Kirshenbaum [email protected]                                        Kung, James [email protected]                                            Kirk Wattles [email protected]                                             Ken Murray [email protected]                            Leonard Aye [email protected]                                        Martin Schroeder [email protected]                                                         [email protected]                                                craig lant [email protected]                                              Larry K. Smith [email protected]                                           Loo Tatt King [email protected]                                          E. LeAnn Copas [email protected]                                                Richard Lee [email protected]                                                Lionel Tun [email protected]                                               Lisa M Cole [email protected]                                      Luciano Mannucci [email protected]                                              Loring Wirbel [email protected]                                                              [email protected]                                     [email protected]                                     Monica Manandhar [email protected]                                                              [email protected]                                     Mathias Koerber [email protected]                                                Michael Beer [email protected]                                                M Crouch [email protected]                                         Michael Richardson MDRAI2::"[email protected]"                                        [email protected]                                                  Yan Lwin [email protected]                                         C.Sinadinovski [email protected]                                             D.Suanburi [email protected]                                            K.L.Malpas [email protected]                                               K.M.Wai [email protected]                                               mike (m.i.h.) king [email protected]                                         manish khettry [email protected]                                                         [email protected]                                                    Maung T. Nyeu [email protected]                                           A.S.Kayaalp [email protected]                                           E.A.Donnell [email protected]                                               [email protected]                                              J.Francis [email protected]                                        Scott Chambers [email protected]                                              The STDs [email protected]                                                 T.Aung [email protected]                                     Tid Group Account [email protected]                                                Matthew Mow [email protected]                                                [email protected]                                                 Thant Zin [email protected]                                Nabin Acharya NAING%[email protected]                                             [email protected]                                                                [email protected]                                     Randy Finder [email protected]                                                                 [email protected]                                     Nick Fitzpatrick [email protected]                                        Nathan J. Mehl [email protected]                                        Ricardo Roberts [email protected]                                    Teerakiat Kerdchaoren [email protected]                                           NICOLA B. TANNENBAUM [email protected]                                  Debora Offer [email protected]                                                              [email protected]                                          Nobuyuki Okamoto [email protected]                                                             [email protected]                                          Arnico Panday [email protected]                                                 Putnam Barber [email protected]                                                Paul Coladonato [email protected]                             Peter Chan - [email protected] [email protected]                                  Peerasak SUTTIYOTIN [email protected]                                         Philip Thorne [email protected]                                            Paul E. Hoffman [email protected]                                            PHILIP HTOON [email protected]                                  Pinkaew Laungaramsri [email protected]                                      Pipat Pichestapong [email protected]                                                           [email protected]                                      Bhanu Niraula [email protected]                                            Pati Mastan [email protected]                                             g raviprakash [email protected]                                   Roger Clayton Smith [email protected]                                         Rajeev Dharmapurikar [email protected]                                        Reid Cooper [email protected]                                      Sendhil Revuluri rimal%[email protected]                                          [email protected]                                              Robert Lee [email protected]                              Robert Borkent [email protected]                                  RaJesh  B. Shrestha [email protected]                                                Rebecca Ng [email protected]                            Simon Frederick Ross [email protected]                                                    [email protected]                                                 [email protected]                                   Stephen R Denney [email protected]                                         Sebastian Hoffmann [email protected]                                                    [email protected]                                            Annoying Man [email protected]                                        IRA SMAILER [email protected]                                                  [email protected]                                                                  [email protected]                                                           [email protected]                                            Alex Soohoo [email protected]                                               SPARTHA%[email protected]ga.cc.uga.edu                                           [email protected]                                                      Ian Chai [email protected]                                          Sunil Shakya [email protected]                               Asuran-Amatuto-senin [email protected]                                  R/DH Stefan Jansson [email protected]                                                                 [email protected]                                                         tahar [email protected]                                                   Tak Khoo [email protected]     Douglas E. Steele - Student at Georgetown Univers [email protected]                                     Than Aung [email protected]                           Theresa Hemingway [email protected]                                          Thomas E Taylor [email protected]                                                   Timo Rinne [email protected]                                        Ashutosh Tiwari [email protected]                                         Tim Lindquist [email protected]                                                   Ko Ko [email protected]                                                Tuck H. Leong [email protected]                                      Tin Maung M. Zaw [email protected]                               Vorav Suwanvanichkij [email protected]                                                Tom Moore [email protected]                                          Trin Tantsetthi [email protected]                                                Samson Tu [email protected]                                                             [email protected]                                                   Coban Tun [email protected]                                          U Ne Oo [email protected]                     Narin Nuttavut           3405047 [email protected]                                               Ekkehard Uthke [email protected]                                           Victor Leong [email protected]                                  Jon and Julie Walkup [email protected]                                                  OPIRG [email protected]                                           Jan Weisman [email protected]                                              Werner Uhrig [email protected]                              Christopher Lynn Wilson [email protected]                                                       Wing Ng [email protected]                                        Chatman Wong [email protected]                                   Chance Briggs [email protected]                                           William Tong XLU%[email protected]                                               [email protected]                                    s. christopher brown [email protected]                     Dave Shariff Yadallee [email protected]                                                Yasmin Vanya [email protected]                                                  eric yee [email protected]                                             Masum Hasan  No Votes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [email protected]                                          dave archer [email protected]                                                     Edward Bertsch [email protected]                                                   [email protected]                                         Thomas Chung [email protected]                                  Sean P. Ryan [email protected]                                                   John De Armond [email protected]                                     John R. MacWilliamson [email protected]                                          Julian Macassey [email protected]                                          Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS [email protected]                                             Richard H. Miller [email protected]                                                     Votes in error ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [email protected]                                                     ! No votes [email protected]                                                           ! No votes [email protected]                                                    mail    ! No votes [email protected]                                           Raoul Haynes    ! No votes --  Ed Bailey                | Voice: (512) 471-4198   Fax: (512) 471-6715 Inst. for Fusion Studies | Internet: [email protected]{hagar,ziggy}.ph.utexas.edu, Univ. of Texas at Austin |   [email protected], or [email protected] Austin TX  78712         | "No pithy quotes.  Just email addresses."  From [email protected] Mon Sep 11 22:11:59 1995 Xref: rpi news.announce.newgroups:1504 news.groups:33768 soc.culture.misc:2174 soc.culture.asean:6804 soc.culture.asian.american:6954 soc.culture.thai:715 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.misc,soc.culture.asean,soc.culture.asian.american,soc.culture.thai Path: rpi!bounce-back From: [email protected] (Lilian Piang) Subject: RFD:  soc.culture.burma Followup-To: news.groups Sender: [email protected] Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette Date: 21 Oct 91 04:48:05 GMT Approved: [email protected] Lines: 28 Status: RO X-Status:   I am submitting a request for discussion to create a new newsgroup  Name:    soc.culture.burma  Status:  Unmoderated  Charter: To promote exchange of information and ideas on all aspects of          Burmese culture and society, and DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT.  Why:     The country and its people are struggling for democracy and to          join the international community.           The newsgroup would serve an important role as a medium to carry          information exchange for people who are related to Burma one way          or another as well as for those who are interested in Burmese          culture and current developments in politics (meaning democracy          movement).     **** Currently there's NO newsgroup that is directly related to Burma.          (soc.culture.asean is the closest one but Burma is NOT a member of          ASEAN)  Thanks to netters and newsadmins.  --Piang [email protected]  PS.  I beg you to support the newsgroup creation.