From ross@spam.ua.oz.au Mon Sep 27 10:42:17 1993 Flags: 000000000201 Path: lear From: ross@spam.ua.oz.au (Ross Williams) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups Subject: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: Create sci.compression? Keywords: data_compression_sci.compression_new_newsgroup_call_for_discussion, posted Date: Mon, 11 Feb 91 11:37:00 PST Followup-to: news.groups Organization: Statistics, Pure & Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide CALL FOR DISCUSSION about the possible creation of a new newsgroup sci.compression which would be used to carry discussions on DATA COMPRESSION Proposal:"That a newsgroup be created as follows: Name : sci.compression Charter : Discussions about data compression. Unmoderated." In accordance with the guidelines for newgroup creation which I have included below, discussion about the creation of such a newsgroup will take place in news.groups. I have posted this to a selection of newsgroups, readers of whom I suspect might be interested. Apologies to those groups whose charter I have misjudged. If you think of a group that you think I have missed, roll a pair of dice and if after that many days, someone else hasn't reposted this there, please do it yourself. Ross Williams ross@spam.ua.oz.au PS: My opinion: As far as I can tell, a newsgroup on data compression is warranted. The field of data compression and its followers seems to be growing quite fast. At present, compressor heads hang out in comp.theory, sci.crypt, and other tangential newsgroups. So let's create a special newsgroup for data compression and give the compressor heads (such as myself) a happy home. My main concern is what the new group should be called. I orginally thought that comp.compression would be best, but as crypt which is closely related, is sci.crypt and not comp.crypt I thought it would be best as sci.compression. Maybe even better would be sci.data.compression, but then you might as well have sci.data.crypt. So sci.compression is the best I can think of and don't anyone even dare suggesting sci.comp - that would be far too confusing for everyone. I know I'm a compressor head, but I draw the line at names! As for the unmoderation of my proposal, I say see how it goes. If the group becomes cluttered with people asking where they can get a copy of Huffman coding in BASIC, we can slam in a moderator at a later date. Below is "the rules" for group creation which you might like to read if you want to get involved with all this. If you don't want to get involved, but you want the newsgroup to exist, at least keep your eyes open for the call for votes and vote when the time comes. Ross. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Original-from: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) [Most recent change: 06 Sep 1990 by lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot Lear)] GUIDELINES FOR USENET GROUP CREATION REQUIREMENTS FOR GROUP CREATION: These are guidelines that have been generally agreed upon across USENET as appropriate for following in the creating of new newsgroups in the "standard" USENET newsgroup hierarchy. They are NOT intended as guidelines for setting USENET policy other than group creations, and they are not intended to apply to "alternate" or local news hierarchies. The part of the namespace affected is comp, news, sci, misc, soc, talk, rec, which are the most widely-distributed areas of the USENET hierarchy. Any group creation request which follows these guidelines to a successful result should be honored, and any request which fails to follow these procedures or to obtain a successful result from doing so should be dropped, except under extraordinary circumstances. The reason these are called guidelines and not absolute rules is that it is not possible to predict in advance what "extraordinary circumstances" are or how they might arise. It should be pointed out here that, as always, the decision whether or not to create a newsgroup on a given machine rests with the administrator of that machine. These guidelines are intended merely as an aid in making those decisions. The Discussion 1) A call for discussion on creation of a new newsgroup should be posted to news.announce.newgroups, and also to any other groups or mailing lists at all related to the proposed topic if desired. This group is moderated, and The Followup-to: header will be set so that the actual discussion takes place only in news.groups. Users on sites which have difficulty posting to moderated groups may mail submissions intended for news.announce.newgroups to "announce-newgroups@turbo.bio.net". 2) The name and charter of the proposed group and whether it will be moderated or unmoderated (and if the former, who the moderator(s) will be) should be determined during the discussion period. If there is no general agreement on these points among the proponents of a new group at the end of 30 days of discussion, the discussion should be taken offline (into mail instead of news.groups) and the proponents should iron out the details among themselves. Once that is done, a new, more specific proposal may be made, going back to step 1) above. The Vote 1) AFTER the discussion period, if it has been determined that a new group is really desired, a name and charter are agreed upon, and it has been determined whether the group will be moderated and if so who will moderate it, a call for votes may be posted to news.announce.newgroups and any other groups or mailing lists that the original call for discussion might have been posted to. There should be minimal delay between the end of the discussion period and the issuing of a call for votes. The call for votes should include clear instructions for how to cast a vote. It must be as clearly explained and as easy to do to cast a vote for creation as against it, and vice versa. It is explicitly permitted to set up two separate addresses to mail yes and no votes to provided that they are on the same machine, to set up an address different than that the article was posted from to mail votes to, or to just accept replies to the call for votes article, as long as it is clearly and explicitly stated in the call for votes article how to cast a vote. If two addresses are used for a vote, the reply address must process and accept both yes and no votes OR reject them both. 2) The voting period should last for at least 21 days and no more than 31 days, no matter what the preliminary results of the vote are. The exact date that the voting period will end should be stated in the call for votes. Only votes that arrive on the vote-taker's machine prior to this date may be counted. 3) A couple of repeats of the call for votes may be posted during the vote, provided that they contain similar clear, unbiased instructions for casting a vote as the original, and provided that it is really a repeat of the call for votes on the SAME proposal (see #5 below). Partial vote results should NOT be included; only a statement of the specific new group proposal, that a vote is in progress on it, and how to cast a vote. It is permitted to post a "mass acknowledgement" in which all the names of those from whom votes have been received are posted, as long as no indication is made of which way anybody voted until the voting period is officially over. 4) ONLY votes MAILED to the vote-taker will count. Votes posted to the net for any reason (including inability to get mail to the vote-taker) and proxy votes (such as having a mailing list maintainer claim a vote for each member of the list) may not be counted. 5) Votes may not be transferred to other, similar proposals. A vote shall count only for the EXACT proposal that it is a response to. In particular, a vote for or against a newsgroup under one name shall NOT be counted as a vote for or against a newsgroup with a different name or charter, a different moderated/unmoderated status or (if moderated) a different moderator or set of moderators. 6) Votes MUST be explicit; they should be of the form "I vote for the group foo.bar as proposed" or "I vote against the group foo.bar as proposed". The wording doesn't have to be exact, it just needs to be unambiguous. In particular, statements of the form "I would vote for this group if..." should be considered comments only and not counted as votes. The Result 1) At the completion of the voting period, the vote taker must post the vote tally and the E-mail addresses and (if available) names of the votes received to news.announce.newgroups and any other groups or mailing lists to which the original call for votes was posted. The tally should include a statement of which way each voter voted so that the results can be verified. 2) AFTER the vote result is posted, there will be a 5 day waiting period, beginning when the voting results actually appear in news.announce.newgroups, during which the net will have a chance to correct any errors in the voter list or the voting procedure. 3) AFTER the waiting period, and if there were no serious objections that might invalidate the vote, and if 100 more valid YES/create votes are received than NO/don't create AND at least 2/3 of the total number of valid votes received are in favor of creation, a newgroup control message may be sent out. If the 100 vote margin or 2/3 percentage is not met, the group should not be created. The newgroup message may be sent by the vote-taker (if able to do so) or by the system administrator on the vote-taker's machine. If this option is not available, then the vote-taker should send mail to "newgroup@ncar.ucar.edu" saying that a successful vote has been run and requesting that a newgroup message be sent. DO NOT send the vote results; we can look those up in news.announce.newgroups if we haven't seen them there already. In any case, please send mail to Gene Spafford (spaf@purdue.edu) informing him of a successful vote, so he can add the new group to the official list of groups which he maintains. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From ross@spam.ua.oz.au Mon Sep 27 10:49:49 1993 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups Path: rpi!tale From: ross@spam.ua.oz.au (Ross Williams) Subject: CFV: comp.compression Followup-To: news.groups Summary: Call for votes for proposal to create comp.compression. Keywords: comp.compression new newsgroup news group data compression Sender: tale@cs.rpi.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu Organization: Statistics, Pure & Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide Date: 21 Feb 91 02:55:19 GMT Approved: tale@rpi.edu Lines: 37 [ This call for votes was posted earlier today to aus.comms,comp.dsp, comp.theory,gnu.misc.discuss,sci.crypt,sci.misc,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm, comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.fax. The text is identical. -- tale ] CALL FOR VOTES FOR COMP.COMPRESSION =================================== The proposal is to create a newsgroup as follows: Newsgroup : comp.compression Charter : Discussions about data compression. Status : Unmoderated. How to Vote ----------- 1. Votes must be posted to "ross@spam.ua.oz.au". 2. Votes must arrive before 16-Mar-1991 (Boston USA time). 3. Votes must contain exactly one of the following two strings: "I vote FOR comp.compression." "I vote AGAINST comp.compression." The exact string is not critical - I will tally votes manually. Note: The newsgroup creation guidelines state that votes POSTED to a newsgroup do not count. Votes must be sent to me! Timetable --------- 20-Feb-1991 Call for votes. 15-MAR-1991 VOTES ARRIVING LATER THAN THIS DATE WILL NOT BE COUNTED. 16-Mar-1991 Posting of vote tally. 5 day waiting period. 21-Mar-1991 Creation of comp.compression. Ross Williams ross@spam.ua.oz.au -- (setq mail '("tale@rpi.edu" "uupsi!rpi!tale" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet")) From ross@spam.ua.oz.au Wed Apr 5 19:21:17 1995 Xref: rpi news.announce.newgroups:955 news.groups:23122 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups Path: rpi!tale From: ross@spam.ua.oz.au (Ross Williams) Subject: RESULT: comp.compression passes 406:20 Followup-To: news.groups Sender: tale@cs.rpi.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu Organization: Statistics, Pure & Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide Date: 17 Mar 91 04:20:26 GMT Approved: tale@rpi.edu Lines: 477 Newsgroup : comp.compression Charter : Discussions about data compression. Status : Unmoderated. The voting period for the comp.compression proposal went from 20-Feb-1991 to 15-Mar-1991. A list of everyone that voted and how they voted is given below. The votes were counted using: #!/bin/csh wc votes_normalized grep FOR votes_normalized | wc grep AGAINST votes_normalized | wc which yielded 426 votes received, 406 FOR and 20 AGAINST. This means that the vote satisfies the two criteria for a successful vote, namely that there must be at least 100 YES votes and that at least 2/3 of the vote be in favour of creation. The process will now enter a five day waiting period during which "the net will have a chance to correct any errors in the voter list or the voting procedure". If the result still stands, the group will be created on about 22-Mar-1991. Thanks to everyone who voted, Ross Williams ross@spam.ua.oz.au Notes: 1. The votes were compiled manually. I may have made some mistakes. 2. Some people sent in votes for sci.compression. I ignored them. (I suppose I should have replied to them but I didn't - sorry). 3. I couldn't think of the unix command to eliminate duplicate lines so I scanned the list myself. I may have missed a duplicate. 4. So many FOR votes came in that when compiling them into the list below, I got into an editing rhythm. If your AGAINST vote has magically changed into a FOR vote, post a note to the net to correct it, but please don't get on your high horse as it was all done manually (I would have automated it if, at the start, I thought I was going to get this many votes). 5. I am unsure of what voters are actually supposed to do if they find that their vote is wrong - the rules don't say. Presumably, mailing complaints to me (the vote taker) would be silly as, if I have rigged the votes, I would ignore your message and the net would never know. So, I suppose, if you have a problem, post it to news.groups for everyone to see. I will watch news.groups. 6. If your vote is correct but your email address or name has an error in it, mail the correction to me (ross@spam.ua.oz.au). 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