*** 20000205.txt Sat Feb 16 10:35:05 2002 --- 20001127.txt Sat Feb 16 10:35:12 2002 *************** *** 1,14 **** From: Russ Allbery Subject: Guidelines for Big Eight Newsgroup Creation ! Date: 2000/03/01 ! Message-ID: ! Expires: 5 Apr 2000 09:00:13 -0000 ! Supersedes: Organization: The Eyrie ! Newsgroups: news.groups ! Last-modified: February 5, 2000 (revision 0.32) Posted-by: postfaq 0.4 (Perl 5.00503) Archive-name: usenet/creating-newsgroups/big-eight URL: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/big-eight.html --- 1,16 ---- From: Russ Allbery + Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Guidelines for Big Eight Newsgroup Creation ! Supersedes: ! Date: 1 Dec 2000 08:00:02 GMT Organization: The Eyrie ! Lines: 227 ! Expires: 5 Jan 2001 08:00:02 -0000 ! Message-ID: ! NNTP-Posting-Host: windlord.stanford.edu ! Last-modified: November 27, 2000 (revision 0.33) Posted-by: postfaq 0.4 (Perl 5.00503) Archive-name: usenet/creating-newsgroups/big-eight URL: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/big-eight.html *************** *** 170,194 **** the judgement of the votetaker, attempts to bypass these restrictions may all be rejected. ! 19. Anonymous, forwarded, or proxy votes are not valid. Votes from ! nonexistent accounts are not valid. Votes mailed by WWW/HTML/CGI ! forms are considered proxy votes and are not valid. The precise ! definition of anonymous is at the discretion of the votetaker but ! should not be interpreted as requiring all voters to use their real ! name; votes from well-established pseudonyms should be accepted. ! 20. The explicit voting instructions in the CFV may not be distributed, in whole or in part, to any forum, by anyone except the votetaker. People wishing to vote should be referred to the CFV posted in news.announce.newgroups or told to contact the votetaker for a copy. Violations may result in invalidation of votes by the votetaker or long-term suspension of the proposal by the n.a.n moderator. ! 21. Whether or not the CFV may be sent to mailing lists is at the discretion of the votetaker, and if done should only be done by the votetaker directly. ! 22. The validity of any given vote is determined by the votetaker. Votes may be disqualified for violation of the above points or for any other actions seriously detrimental to the integrity of the vote, at the discretion of the votetaker. The decision of the votetaker may be --- 172,202 ---- the judgement of the votetaker, attempts to bypass these restrictions may all be rejected. ! 19. Votes from undeliverable addresses (including transformations of valid ! addresses intended to avoid spam) are not valid. The votetaker will ! e-mail an acknowledgment of the vote in response to each vote, and if ! this acknowledgment bounces, the corresponding vote will not count ! towards the total. Voters are responsible for investigating what ! happened if their votes are not acknowledged. ! ! 20. Anonymous, forwarded, or proxy votes are not valid. Votes mailed by ! WWW/HTML/CGI forms are considered proxy votes and are not valid. The ! precise definition of anonymous is at the discretion of the votetaker ! but should not be interpreted as requiring all voters to use their ! real name; votes from well-established pseudonyms should be accepted. ! 21. The explicit voting instructions in the CFV may not be distributed, in whole or in part, to any forum, by anyone except the votetaker. People wishing to vote should be referred to the CFV posted in news.announce.newgroups or told to contact the votetaker for a copy. Violations may result in invalidation of votes by the votetaker or long-term suspension of the proposal by the n.a.n moderator. ! 22. Whether or not the CFV may be sent to mailing lists is at the discretion of the votetaker, and if done should only be done by the votetaker directly. ! 23. The validity of any given vote is determined by the votetaker. Votes may be disqualified for violation of the above points or for any other actions seriously detrimental to the integrity of the vote, at the discretion of the votetaker. The decision of the votetaker may be *************** *** 197,225 **** THE RESULT ! 23. After the completion of the vote, the votetaker will tally the result and post it to the same newsgroups to which the votetaker posted the CFV. The posted result will contain the name, a form of the e-mail address, and the vote of everyone who voted except for those people who subsequently cancelled their vote. ! 24. Each separate proposed change will be considered to have passed if and only if it received at least 100 more YES than NO votes and received at least twice as many YES as NO votes. ! 25. After the result posting, there will be a five day period when any objections to the vote may be raised in news.groups. The n.a.n moderator should also be informed (at newgroups-request@isc.org) of any objections or inaccuracies that could change the outcome. ! 26. At the conclusion of this waiting period, the n.a.n moderator will either validate the results or will put the proposal on hold while objections are considered. The final determination of whether a vote has passed or failed will be made by the n.a.n moderator; the n.a.n moderator may also call for a revote or take other appropriate action to deal with severely flawed votes. ! 27. All portions of the proposal that passed will be implemented by control messages issued by the n.a.n moderator. Control messages are sent at 10:30am US Eastern time, Monday through Thursday. Ordinarily, control messages implementing the portions of a proposal which passed --- 205,233 ---- THE RESULT ! 24. After the completion of the vote, the votetaker will tally the result and post it to the same newsgroups to which the votetaker posted the CFV. The posted result will contain the name, a form of the e-mail address, and the vote of everyone who voted except for those people who subsequently cancelled their vote. ! 25. Each separate proposed change will be considered to have passed if and only if it received at least 100 more YES than NO votes and received at least twice as many YES as NO votes. ! 26. After the result posting, there will be a five day period when any objections to the vote may be raised in news.groups. The n.a.n moderator should also be informed (at newgroups-request@isc.org) of any objections or inaccuracies that could change the outcome. ! 27. At the conclusion of this waiting period, the n.a.n moderator will either validate the results or will put the proposal on hold while objections are considered. The final determination of whether a vote has passed or failed will be made by the n.a.n moderator; the n.a.n moderator may also call for a revote or take other appropriate action to deal with severely flawed votes. ! 28. All portions of the proposal that passed will be implemented by control messages issued by the n.a.n moderator. Control messages are sent at 10:30am US Eastern time, Monday through Thursday. Ordinarily, control messages implementing the portions of a proposal which passed *************** *** 229,234 **** moderation, or for transition periods (for example, removal of an existing group may be delayed until creation of its replacement has had time to propagate). - --- 237,241 ----