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FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (OF 2)
Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.rec.gardening.allotments
Votes must be received by 23:59:59 GMT, 16th Mar 2004.
Please note that, in the CFV only, all email addresses other than
the ballot request address are spamtrapped or munged. Addresses
on the ballot paper are unaltered, in accordance with standard
practice. Please take extreme care, therefore, with the ballot
paper that you receive and ensure that it is not stored in the
mail spool of a virus-infected PC.
For voting questions *only*, contact
Votetaker: Pedt Scragg xurga-query (at) dontspame.com
For questions about the proposed new newsgroup please contact the
proponent.
Proponent : Gary Poston gary (at) torbay.eclipse.co.uk
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Distribution:
This CFV has been posted to the following newsgroups:
uk.net.news.announce
uk.net.news.config
uk.rec.gardening
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This CFV contains the following sections.
1. Rationale from the last RFD
2. Summary of Discussion from the Proponent
3. Changes from the last RFD from the Proponent
4. Newsgroups line
5. Charter
6. Standard Voting Instructions
7. Instructions on how to obtain a ballot paper and template
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RATIONALE from the last RFD
I have searched to find many allotment web sites and found that if
this group was opened it would allow all allotment (and would be)
allotment holders to to exchange views in one convenient place.
This in turn would give valued exchange of views by every visitor.
To also pick up tips and sometimes tricks into allotment gardening.
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PROPONENT's Summary of Discussion
I've not taken part in the discussion but monitored it and think I
can win. On monitoring the threads for the last 10 days and come to
a conclusion that I expect to have at least 12 more yes votes than
no votes.
"Some" people are still against the formation of
uk.rec.gardening.allotments. "Most" believe that "Allotments" are a
total different issue to "Gardening" for example; Allotments are
"plots of land" not your common house "garden".
People with Allotments are more likely to use uk.rec.gardening.allotments
because this will be more common to them and would cut bandwidth with
regards to uk.rec.gardening general gardening threads. A lot of people
are in favour of an uk.rec.gardening.allotments newsgroup, a select
few "beg to differ" or are in two minds which way to vote.
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CHANGES from the last RFD
None
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NEWSGROUPS LINE
uk.rec.gardening.allotments Allotments holders group
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CHARTER: uk.rec.gardening.allotments
To discuss allotment issues, planting times, tips on gardening, pest
controls and general allotment posts.
Advertising
Advertising is forbidden
Binaries & Formatting
Encoded binaries (e.g. pictures, compressed files, etc.) are
forbidden. Such material belongs on a web or FTP site to which
a pointer may be posted. Cryptographic signatures (e.g. PGP)
may be used where authentication is important and should be as
short as possible.
Posts must be readable as plain text. HTML, RTF and similarly
formatted messages are prohibited. To see how to make some
common newsreaders comply with this, read
http://www.usenet.org.uk/ukpost.html.
Warning. Anyone posting contrary to this charter may be reported to
their "postmaster" and/or Service Provider.
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VOTING INSTRUCTIONS
If you fail to follow the instructions below your ballot paper may
be ruled invalid. This means your vote will not be counted.
1) One person, one vote.
2) No two voters may vote from the same email address.
In the event that only one address is available to two persons
who both wish to vote, both these persons should contact the
votetaker prior to voting.
3) Votes must be emailed directly from the voter to the address
specified by the votetaker.
4) There may be technical reasons, such as breaks in the email
headers of your ballot, which may mean that the votetaker is
unable to confirm the validity of your vote. The votetaker
will contact you if there are any irregularities.
If you have followed the voting instructions correctly, you will
receive an acknowledgement of your vote within five days from the
votetaker.
This does not always mean that your vote is valid. The votetaker
will contact you if there is a problem with your vote.
If you do not receive an acknowledgement of receipt of your ballot
paper within five days you should contact the votetaker.
If the acknowledgement "bounces" back to the votetaker (the mail
containing the acknowledgment is returned as undeliverable by a
mailserver), your vote will not be counted.
It is your responsibility to ensure that your ballot paper has been
received by checking that the acknowledgement arrives. You should
also check that your vote is recorded correctly in the
acknowledgement. If there are any problems with your
acknowledgement, you should contact the votetaker.
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HOW TO VOTE
This vote is being run with a voting system which was introduced
in January 2003, so if you haven't voted since then this is going
to be new to you.
Please read the instructions carefully.
Under this new system, the email address that will be published in
the results is the one that the ballot paper was sent to. So for
example if a ballot paper was sent to
,
this would be the address shown in the result. This address has to
be valid, otherwise you will not receive a ballot paper.
To receive a ballot paper, you must send an email to the Ballot
Request Address, which is xurga at request.ukvoting.org.uk.
For most news-reading software, just replying by email to this post
will address your email correctly, but *please check* that the
address above is actually in the To field before you send the mail.
We recognise that sometimes people submit their votes from
different addresses for varying reasons, especially when more than
one email address is available to a voter. If you want the results
to record your vote as coming from a different address to that
from which you post your request, you can do this by putting the
address you want recorded in the Reply-To field in your ballot
request. If you do not know how to do this, or if you are unable
for whatever reason, then put the address you want recorded in the
Subject line of your ballot request instead.
Note: Please remember that you must be able to read email sent to
the address you choose to use as your voting address, otherwise you
will be unable to retrieve your ballot paper and you will be unable
to vote.
If you change the Subject field in your email to contain the
address you want to use, it doesn't matter whether you also include
your name or not, and it doesn't matter whether you enclose your
voting address in angle brackets or not.
It also doesn't matter whether you quote this entire post or
delete everything when making your ballot request.
THE REPLY TO YOUR REQUEST
If the autoresponder understands your voting address in the Subject
or other fields, it will send a ballot paper immediately to that
address. This ballot paper will be personalised and unique to the
voting address used.
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CASTING YOUR VOTE
Your personalised ballot paper will contain a ballot ID and will
have your voting address prefilled for your convenience.
Do not change either of these or your vote will not be valid. If
you want to use a different voting address you must request
another ballot paper for the new address.
1) Enter the name under which you want your vote recorded in the
results. This must be either your real name or the pseudonym
("handle") which you normally use to post to usenet.
2) Enter the email address which you normally use to post to
Usenet, including the spamblock if applicable. If you use a
number of different email addresses, please give the most
recent, a typical or the most commonly used address. If, and
only if, you do not post to Usenet, enter the word "none".
Please do not enter any text in this field other than your
posting address or the word "none". If you have any doubt as
to how to complete this section, please contact the votetaker.
This section is recommended but optional and is to help the
votetaker verify your vote. If you do not answer this question,
and the votetaker cannot verify your identity from the other
information on the ballot, then the votetaker will need to
carry out further investigations which may include contacting
you for additional information. If you are unable or unwilling
to provide such information if requested, your vote might not
be counted.
3) Mark your voting preferences, as indicated on the ballot
according to the instructions below.
4) Send your vote.
This vote is being conducted under the Yes/No procedure.
This vote requires a simple 'yes', 'no' response as you wish
The letters Y/N may be used if you prefer.
You may abstain, and have your abstention recorded in the results,
by filling in one or more of the voting boxes [ ] with A or
ABSTAIN. Similarly if you wish to Cancel a vote and have no record
in the results, use C or CANCEL on your ballot paper, and resubmit
it.
You may resubmit your ballot, with different choices, at any time
up to the close of the vote. Your identification details on the
resubmitted ballot paper must be the same as earlier ones.
Repeat votes will be resolved in favour of the last valid ballot
paper.
The purpose of this vote is to determine the genuine interest of
persons who would read the proposed newsgroup.
Soliciting votes from disinterested parties defeats this purpose.
Under no circumstances should you post your completed ballot paper
to any Usenet/Net News newsgroup or other forum.
If you ignore any of these instructions, your vote may be rejected
as invalid. This includes, but is not limited to, any false answers
given on the ballot paper or any attempt to circumvent the "one
person, one vote" rule or to conceal your identity.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RECEIPT OF YOUR BALLOT PAPER
The votetaker will send you an acknowledgement so that you know
that your ballot paper has been received. This may take up to five
days.
If you have not received such an acknowledgement after five days,
then contact the votetaker directly at the following address:
xurga-query at dontspame.com
An acknowledgement does not necessarily mean that your vote will be
counted.
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VOTE VALIDATION AND CONFIDENTIALITY
The acknowledgement which you receive (see above) will contain
details of how you voted. Check this acknowledgement carefully. If
there are any problems, or you did not vote, then contact the
votetaker straight away.
During or at the end of the vote, the votetaker will validate every
vote submitted, and the votetaker may need to contact you
concerning any problem or query. You must assist the votetaker's
reasonable efforts to clarify any problem or query with regard to
your vote otherwise your vote may not be counted. Any communication
between the votetaker and yourself must not be considered to be
confidential and the votetaker reserves the right to publish any
information that the votetaker deems relevant to the vote
within the results post.
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RESULTS
The names, addresses and vote preferences of all valid and invalid
votes will be published in the results, which are posted to
uk.net.news.announce.
All published email addresses will be scrambled to prevent them
being harvested by spammers.
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The ballot paper will contain the following question(s).
The question(s) are shown below so that you know what you will
be asked on the ballot paper. You cannot use this to vote,
you must request a ballot paper.
Create unmoderated newsgroup uk.rec.gardening.allotments?
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TROUBLESHOOTING
If you have any problems whatsoever with this process, contact the
votetaker directly at xurga-query at dontspame.com
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VOTING AND APPEAL GUIDELINES
This vote was conducted by neutral third party members of UKVoting.
UKVoting is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on
CFVs in the uk hierarchy. The rules under which this vote is taken
are posted regularly to uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the
following URL:
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/ne...wers/uk/voting
The UKVoting web pages can be found at
http://www.ukvoting.org.uk/
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