From finjws@gsusgi2.gsu.edu Wed May 15 18:51:08 1996 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: finjws@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Jerry W.Simpson, KE4GXJ) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.liberia,soc.culture.kenya,soc.culture.african.american,soc.culture.caribbean Subject: RFD: soc.culture.ghana moderated Followup-To: news.groups Date: 15 May 1996 22:51:13 -0000 Organization: . Lines: 96 Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <832200671.23246@uunet.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Archive-Name: soc.culture.ghana Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:8685 news.groups:206561 soc.culture.liberia:1403 soc.culture.kenya:1576 soc.culture.african.american:215879 soc.culture.caribbean:27434 REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) moderated group soc.culture.ghana Newsgroups line: soc.culture.ghana Discussion group on Ghana. (Moderated) This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of a world- wide moderated Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.ghana. This is not a Call For Votes (CFV); DO NOT vote at this time. Procedural details are below. RATIONALE: soc.culture.ghana The purpose of the newsgroup "soc.culture.ghana" is to provide a forum for discussion on issues related to Ghana. Presently,subscription to okyeame and ghana_think_tank is,by and large, restricted to Ghanaians. This newsgroup should fill the void, by allowing everyone with interest in Ghana to post messages. In fact, several people confuse Ghana with Guyana in South America, and this newsgroup is here to set the record straight on this and other issues germane to Ghana,and afford non-Ghanaians the opportunity to learn more about the Republic of Ghana and her people. Non-Ghanaians can use this forum to develop life-long friendship with Ghanaians. Besides,I don't know the existence of any Ghana Usenet newsgroup, therefore, the creation of the soc.culture.ghana newsgroup should address this problem. Additionally,this soc.culture.ghana newsgroup shall serve as the platform for the distribution of the online version of several Ghanaian publications. CHARTER: soc.culture.ghana All issues related to Ghana can be discussed in this forum. Although, contributors are advised to observe decorum whenever they wish to post messages. We are determined to make soc.culture.ghana a truly global newsgroup. We, therefore, invite everybody to participate. END CHARTER. MODERATOR INFO: soc.culture.ghana Moderator: Jerry Wonderful Simpson, KE4GXJ END MODERATOR INFO. PROCEDURE: This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this phase of the the process, any potential problems with the proposed newsgroups should be raised and resolved. The discussion period shall continue for a minimum of 21 days (starting from when the first RFD for this proposal is posted to news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For Votes (CFV) may be posted by a neutral vote taker if the discussion warrants it. Please do not attempt to vote until this happens. All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups. This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup creation guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup" and "How to Format and Submit a New group proposal." Please refer to these documents which are available in news.announce.newgroups, if you have any questions about the process. DISTRIBUTION: This RFD has been posted to the following newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, soc.culture.liberia soc.culture.kenya soc.culture.african.american soc.culture.carribean and the following mailing list: ghana_think_tank@databack.com Subscribe via : Majordomo@databack.com Message: subscribe ghana_think_tank okyeame@mit.edu PROPONENT: Jerry Wonderful Simpson, KE4GXJ -- Jerry W.Simpson,KE4GXJ finjws@gsusgi2.gsu.edu Compuserve 74640,3230 (404) 651-2392 (voice) (404) 651-2403 (fax) Georgia State University,860 Franklin Road 12,Marietta,GA 30067 http://www.gsu.edu/~finjws/shrine.html From finjws@gsusgi2.gsu.edu Fri May 24 16:12:47 1996 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: finjws@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Jerry W.Simpson, KE4GXJ) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.nigeria,soc.culture.south-africa,soc.culture.zimbabwe,soc.culture.sierra-leone,soc.culture.liberia,soc.culture.kenya Subject: 2nd RFD: soc.culture.ghana moderated Followup-To: news.groups Date: 24 May 1996 20:12:56 -0000 Organization: . Lines: 205 Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <832968774.12519@uunet.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Archive-Name: soc.culture.ghana Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:8727 news.groups:207848 soc.culture.african:57040 soc.culture.nigeria:19171 soc.culture.south-africa:16611 soc.culture.zimbabwe:2764 soc.culture.sierra-leone:1820 soc.culture.liberia:1462 soc.culture.kenya:1612 REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) moderated group soc.culture.ghana This is a 2nd Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of a world-wide moderated Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.ghana. This is not a Call For Votes (CFV); DO NOT vote at this time. Procedural details are below. Newsgroups line: soc.culture.ghana Discussion group on Ghana. (Moderated) CHANGES: The charter of the newsgroup has been expanded and other unnecessary materials removed to make for easy reading. Number of moderators have been increased and moderation policy introduced. RATIONALE: soc.culture.ghana The purpose of the newsgroup "soc.culture.ghana" is to provide a forum for discussion on issues related to Ghana. Presently, subscription to okyeame and ghana_think_tank is,by and large, restricted to Ghanaians. This newsgroup should fill the void, by allowing everyone with interest in Ghana to post messages. Infact, several people confuse Ghana with Guyana in South America, and this newsgroup is here to set the record straight on this and other issues germane to Ghana, and afford non-Ghanaians the opportunity to learn more about the Republic of Ghana and her people. Non-Ghanaians can use this forum to develop life-long friendships with Ghanaians. Besides, there is no existing Ghana newsgroup on the USENET. Therefore, the creation of the soc.culture.ghana newsgroup should address this problem. The newsgroup soc.ghana.culture newsgroup is going to bridge Ghana with the rest of the world. This soc.culture.ghana newsgroup shall also serve as the platform to develop strategies, and compare "notes" for the fight ahead of us because as they say, "two heads are better than one." CHARTER: soc.culture.ghana All issues related to Ghana can be discussed in this forum in a friendly atmosphere. However, discussions shall revolve around economy, history, politics, culture, customs, religion, education, technology, health, sports, music, marital issues (including match-making), etc provided they have something to do with Ghana and Ghanaian peoples. This newsgroup shall serve those who wanted to know about Ghana and her people but have no place to ask. We are determined to make soc.culture.ghana, a truly global newsgroup. We, therefore, invite everybody to participate. Commercial advertisements are not allowed in this newsgroup. However, adverts which deal exclusively with Ghanaian matters or which are useful to Ghanaians( such as job adverts, Ghana-interest cultural/ social events in which fees are to be paid, etc) may be allowed at the discretion of the moderators. Other adverts not related to Ghana but may be of interest to Ghanaians will be placed on a website which will be set up later. There are also other companies on the World_Wide Web that offer facilities for advertisement. Contributors are advised to observe decorum whenever they wish to post messages. Moderation Policy ----------------- We believe that moderation is not equal to censorship and should never be allowed to become one. However, we also believe that a newsgroup should be free of irrelevancies and incubi. The following shall be off-topic soc.culture.ghana 1) Posts not related to the purposes of soc.culture.ghana 2) Posts that exceed 75 characters per line 3) Crossposts to three or more newsgroups other than soc.culture.ghana 4) "Me too" posts; posts that contain an unreasonable amount of quoted text; posts that do not contribute any new discussion to an ongoing thread; intensely repetitive posts; polemics. 5) Commercial advertisements or personal advertisements that have nothing to do with Ghana; "spam" articles; and robogenerated articles. 6) Excessively polemical postings; obscene plagiarism and academic dishonesty, including the deliberate misattribution of quotations from historical documents and figures. The moderators shall interpret this rule loosely -- newsgroups are not academic journals -- but deliberate misattributions have poisoned the atmosphere in other newsgroups. 7) Posts containing profanity or excessive rudeness; posts that lack appropriate civility. While well-placed heckles are acceptable, flamewars are not. Any post full of personal abuse, slander or libel, or unauthorized reference to private e-mail addresses or mailing lists shall also be rejected. 8) Propagation of national, religious, racial, sexual, or ethnic hostility or animosity -- including posts openly justifying violence (in particular, violence against disabled people, women and children), war crimes, or ethnic cleansing. 9) Binary files, even if they are related to Ghana. Ghana-related binaries should be posted to the appropriate alt.binaries.* group with a pointer in soc.culture.ghana indicating where the binary in question may be found. Moderators will neither screen postings for intellectual content nor for accuracy beyond that contained in the charter of soc.culture.ghana. Moderators reserve the right to terminate any thread which degenerates into unacceptable namecalling, rudeness, vulgarity, or which they feel has reached its end or flash point. Such threads shall be terminated by at least 2/3 supermajority of the current moderators. Individuals who believe a particular moderator has unfairly rejected a submission can appeal to the entire panel of moderators. The panel will reevaluate the submission and make a majority decision as to whether it will be posted. In the event that the moderation panel is evenly split over whether a submission ought to be posted, the submission shall be posted. Anyone may volunteer to join the moderation panel with the consent of a two-thirds supermajority of the current moderators. Moderators also may be removed by a 2/3 supermajority of the moderation panel. Of course, moderators may resign of their own volition at any time. If traffic in the group proves heavy, the moderators may develop a robomoderation script to assist in their duties. END CHARTER. MODERATOR INFO: soc.culture.ghana Moderator: Yaw Ahenkorah < Yaw.Ahenkorah@mail.hta.com > Moderator: Kwabena Dei Ofori-Attah Moderator: Mavis A.Owusu-Gyamfi Moderator: Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo Moderator: Frederick Anang Moderator: Jerry Wonderful Simpson END MODERATOR INFO. PROCEDURE: This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this phase of the the process, any potential problems with the proposed newsgroups should be raised and resolved. The discussion period shall continue for a minimum of 21 days (starting from when the first RFD for this proposal is posted to news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For Votes (CFV) may be posted by a neutral vote taker if the discussion warrants it. Please do not attempt to vote until this happens. All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups. This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup creation guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup" and "How to Format and Submit a New group proposal." Please refer to these documents which are available in news.announce.newgroups, if you have any questions about the process. DISTRIBUTION: This RFD has been posted to the following newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, soc.culture.african soc.culture.nigeria soc.culture.south-africa soc.culture.zimbabwe soc.culture.sierra-leone soc.culture.liberia soc.culture.kenya soc.culture.african.american and the following mailing list: 1. ghana_think_tank@databack.com Subscribe via : Majordomo@databack.com Message: subscribe ghana_think_tank The ghana_think_tank is both a newsletter and a discussion mailing list. Non-Ghanaians shalll be considered for membership on a case-by-case basis. 2. okyeame@mit.edu 3. naijanet@mitvma.mit.edu submission: naijanet@mitvma.mit.edu (No subscription/membership required) PROPONENT: Jerry Wonderful Simpson, KE4GXJ -- Jerry W.Simpson,KE4GXJ finjws@gsusgi2.gsu.edu Compuserve 74640,3230 (404) 651-2392 (voice) (404) 651-2403 (fax) Georgia State University,860 Franklin Road 12,Marietta,GA 30067 http://www.gsu.edu/~finjws/shrine.html From david.bostwick@chemistry.gatech.edu Wed Jul 24 22:25:12 1996 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: david.bostwick@chemistry.gatech.edu (David Bostwick) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.nigeria,soc.culture.south-africa,soc.culture.zimbabwe,soc.culture.sierra-leone,soc.culture.liberia,soc.culture.kenya Subject: CFV: soc.culture.ghana moderated Followup-To: poster Date: 25 Jul 1996 02:24:57 -0000 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers (UVV) Lines: 214 Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Expires: 16 Aug 1996 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <838261493.1350@uunet.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Archive-Name: soc.culture.ghana Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:8976 news.groups:220488 soc.culture.african:59108 soc.culture.nigeria:21742 soc.culture.south-africa:18837 soc.culture.zimbabwe:3132 soc.culture.sierra-leone:2082 soc.culture.liberia:1784 soc.culture.kenya:1944 FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2) moderated group soc.culture.ghana Newsgroups line: soc.culture.ghana Discussion group on Ghana. (Moderated) Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 15 Aug 1996. This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. Questions about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent. Questions about the vote itself should be directed to the votetaker. Proponent: Jerry Wonderful Simpson, KE4GXJ Votetaker: David Bostwick RATIONALE: soc.culture.ghana The purpose of the newsgroup "soc.culture.ghana" is to provide a forum for discussion on issues related to Ghana. Presently, subscription to okyeame and ghana_think_tank is,by and large, restricted to Ghanaians. This newsgroup should fill the void, by allowing everyone with interest in Ghana to post messages. Infact, several people confuse Ghana with Guyana in South America, and this newsgroup is here to set the record straight on this and other issues germane to Ghana, and afford non-Ghanaians the opportunity to learn more about the Republic of Ghana and her people. Non-Ghanaians can use this forum to develop life-long friendships with Ghanaians. Besides, there is no existing Ghana newsgroup on the USENET. Therefore, the creation of the soc.culture.ghana newsgroup should address this problem. The newsgroup soc.ghana.culture newsgroup is going to bridge Ghana with the rest of the world. This soc.culture.ghana newsgroup shall also serve as the platform to develop strategies, and compare "notes" for the fight ahead of us because as they say, "two heads are better than one." CHARTER: soc.culture.ghana All issues related to Ghana can be discussed in this forum in a friendly atmosphere. However, discussions shall revolve around economy, history, politics, culture, customs, religion, education, technology, health, sports, music, marital issues (including match-making), etc provided they have something to do with Ghana and Ghanaian peoples. This newsgroup shall serve those who wanted to know about Ghana and her people but have no place to ask. We are determined to make soc.culture.ghana, a truly global newsgroup. We, therefore, invite everybody to participate. Commercial advertisements are not allowed in this newsgroup. However, adverts which deal exclusively with Ghanaian matters or which are useful to Ghanaians( such as job adverts, Ghana-interest cultural/ social events in which fees are to be paid, etc) may be allowed at the discretion of the moderators. Other adverts not related to Ghana but may be of interest to Ghanaians will be placed on a website which will be set up later. There are also other companies on the World_Wide Web that offer facilities for advertisement. Contributors are advised to observe decorum whenever they wish to post messages. Moderation Policy ----------------- We believe that moderation is not equal to censorship and should never be allowed to become one. However, we also believe that a newsgroup should be free of irrelevancies and incubi. The following shall be off-topic soc.culture.ghana 1) Posts not related to the purposes of soc.culture.ghana 2) Posts that exceed 75 characters per line 3) Crossposts to three or more newsgroups other than soc.culture.ghana 4) "Me too" posts; posts that contain an unreasonable amount of quoted text; posts that do not contribute any new discussion to an ongoing thread; intensely repetitive posts; polemics. 5) Commercial advertisements or personal advertisements that have nothing to do with Ghana; "spam" articles; and robogenerated articles. 6) Excessively polemical postings; obscene plagiarism and academic dishonesty, including the deliberate misattribution of quotations from historical documents and figures. The moderators shall interpret this rule loosely -- newsgroups are not academic journals -- but deliberate misattributions have poisoned the atmosphere in other newsgroups. 7) Posts containing profanity or excessive rudeness; posts that lack appropriate civility. While well-placed heckles are acceptable, flamewars are not. Any post full of personal abuse, slander or libel, or unauthorized reference to private e-mail addresses or mailing lists shall also be rejected. 8) Propagation of national, religious, racial, sexual, or ethnic hostility or animosity -- including posts openly justifying violence (in particular, violence against disabled people, women and children), war crimes, or ethnic cleansing. 9) Binary files, even if they are related to Ghana. Ghana-related binaries should be posted to the appropriate alt.binaries.* group with a pointer in soc.culture.ghana indicating where the binary in question may be found. Moderators will neither screen postings for intellectual content nor for accuracy beyond that contained in the charter of soc.culture.ghana. Moderators reserve the right to terminate any thread which degenerates into unacceptable namecalling, rudeness, vulgarity, or which they feel has reached its end or flash point. Such threads shall be terminated by at least 2/3 supermajority of the current moderators. Individuals who believe a particular moderator has unfairly rejected a submission can appeal to the entire panel of moderators. The panel will reevaluate the submission and make a majority decision as to whether it will be posted. In the event that the moderation panel is evenly split over whether a submission ought to be posted, the submission shall be posted. Anyone may volunteer to join the moderation panel with the consent of a two-thirds supermajority of the current moderators. Moderators also may be removed by a 2/3 supermajority of the moderation panel. Of course, moderators may resign of their own volition at any time. If traffic in the group proves heavy, the moderators may develop a robomoderation script to assist in their duties. END CHARTER. MODERATOR INFO: soc.culture.ghana Moderator: Yaw Ahenkorah < Yaw.Ahenkorah@mail.hta.com > Moderator: Kwabena Dei Ofori-Attah Moderator: Mavis A.Owusu-Gyamfi Moderator: Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo Moderator: Frederick Anang Moderator: Jerry Wonderful Simpson END MODERATOR INFO. DISTRIBUTION: This CFV has been posted to the following newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, soc.culture.african, soc.culture.nigeria, soc.culture.south-africa, soc.culture.zimbabwe, soc.culture.sierra-leone, soc.culture.liberia, soc.culture.kenya, soc.culture.african.american HOW TO VOTE Delete everything above the top "-=-=-" line and delete everything below the bottom -=-=-" line. Do not change anything between these lines, except to add your name and vote. Give your name on the line that asks for it. For each group, put your vote in the brackets next to the group name. Valid entries are ABSTAIN, CANCEL, NO, and YES. Anything else may generate an invalid vote. Don't worry about changes in spacing or any quote characters (">") that your reply may insert. Mail the ballot to . Just replying to this should work, but check the "To:" line. Votes must be mailed directly from the voter to the votetaker. Distributing pre-marked or otherwise edited ballots is considered vote fraud. Only one vote is allowed per person or per account. Votes will be acknowleged by e-mail. If you have not received an acknowledgement within a few days, contact the votetaker. It is your responsibility to be certain your vote has been recorded correctly. If you want to change your vote, you may vote again, but only the latest vote will be counted. Addresses and votes of all voters will be published in the final vote ack. The purpose of a Usenet vote is to determine the genuine interest of people who would read a proposed newsgroup. Soliciting votes from disinterested parties defeats this purpose. Please do not distribute this CFV. If you must, direct people to the official CFV as posted in news.groups. When in doubt, ask the votetaker. -=-=- BEGINNING OF BALLOT: DELETE EVERYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE =-=-=-=-=-=-= This ballot is available only from | FIRST CALL FOR VOTES | postings in news.groups or by e-mail | SOC.CULTURE.GHANA | from the votetaker. It is distributed | | blank. Votes are counted by computer, ================================== and failure to use this ballot increases the possibility that the software will be unable to process your vote properly. Do not edit this ballot except to add your name and indicate your vote. These are examples of how to mark the ballot. Do not vote here. [ YES ] example.yes.vote [ NO ] example.no.vote [ ABSTAIN ] example.abstain.vote [ CANCEL ] example.cancel.vote The placement of the word within the brackets is not important, but use the complete word, not just one letter. Enter your name and indicate your vote in the spaces below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Give your real name here: If you do not give your real name, your vote may be rejected. [Your Vote] Group (Place your vote below in the brackets next to the group) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] soc.culture.ghana -=-=-=-= END OF BALLOT: DELETE EVERYTHING BELOW THIS LINE =-=-=-=-=-=-= From david.bostwick@chemistry.gatech.edu Mon Aug 5 21:07:14 1996 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: david.bostwick@chemistry.gatech.edu (David Bostwick) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.nigeria,soc.culture.south-africa,soc.culture.zimbabwe,soc.culture.sierra-leone,soc.culture.liberia,soc.culture.kenya Subject: 2nd CFV: soc.culture.ghana moderated Supersedes: <838261493.1350@uunet.uu.net> Followup-To: poster Date: 6 Aug 1996 01:07:06 -0000 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers (UVV) Lines: 214 Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Expires: 16 Aug 1996 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <839293622.26898@uunet.uu.net> References: <838261493.1350@uunet.uu.net> Reply-To: David Bostwick NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Archive-Name: soc.culture.ghana Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:9012 news.groups:224197 soc.culture.african:59522 soc.culture.nigeria:22756 soc.culture.south-africa:19272 soc.culture.zimbabwe:3226 soc.culture.sierra-leone:2161 soc.culture.liberia:1860 soc.culture.kenya:2021 LAST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2) moderated group soc.culture.ghana Newsgroups line: soc.culture.ghana Discussion group on Ghana. (Moderated) Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 15 Aug 1996. This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. Questions about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent. Questions about the vote itself should be directed to the votetaker. Proponent: Jerry Wonderful Simpson, KE4GXJ Votetaker: David Bostwick RATIONALE: soc.culture.ghana The purpose of the newsgroup "soc.culture.ghana" is to provide a forum for discussion on issues related to Ghana. Presently, subscription to okyeame and ghana_think_tank is,by and large, restricted to Ghanaians. This newsgroup should fill the void, by allowing everyone with interest in Ghana to post messages. Infact, several people confuse Ghana with Guyana in South America, and this newsgroup is here to set the record straight on this and other issues germane to Ghana, and afford non-Ghanaians the opportunity to learn more about the Republic of Ghana and her people. Non-Ghanaians can use this forum to develop life-long friendships with Ghanaians. Besides, there is no existing Ghana newsgroup on the USENET. Therefore, the creation of the soc.culture.ghana newsgroup should address this problem. The newsgroup soc.ghana.culture newsgroup is going to bridge Ghana with the rest of the world. This soc.culture.ghana newsgroup shall also serve as the platform to develop strategies, and compare "notes" for the fight ahead of us because as they say, "two heads are better than one." CHARTER: soc.culture.ghana All issues related to Ghana can be discussed in this forum in a friendly atmosphere. However, discussions shall revolve around economy, history, politics, culture, customs, religion, education, technology, health, sports, music, marital issues (including match-making), etc provided they have something to do with Ghana and Ghanaian peoples. This newsgroup shall serve those who wanted to know about Ghana and her people but have no place to ask. We are determined to make soc.culture.ghana, a truly global newsgroup. We, therefore, invite everybody to participate. Commercial advertisements are not allowed in this newsgroup. However, adverts which deal exclusively with Ghanaian matters or which are useful to Ghanaians( such as job adverts, Ghana-interest cultural/ social events in which fees are to be paid, etc) may be allowed at the discretion of the moderators. Other adverts not related to Ghana but may be of interest to Ghanaians will be placed on a website which will be set up later. There are also other companies on the World_Wide Web that offer facilities for advertisement. Contributors are advised to observe decorum whenever they wish to post messages. Moderation Policy ----------------- We believe that moderation is not equal to censorship and should never be allowed to become one. However, we also believe that a newsgroup should be free of irrelevancies and incubi. The following shall be off-topic soc.culture.ghana 1) Posts not related to the purposes of soc.culture.ghana 2) Posts that exceed 75 characters per line 3) Crossposts to three or more newsgroups other than soc.culture.ghana 4) "Me too" posts; posts that contain an unreasonable amount of quoted text; posts that do not contribute any new discussion to an ongoing thread; intensely repetitive posts; polemics. 5) Commercial advertisements or personal advertisements that have nothing to do with Ghana; "spam" articles; and robogenerated articles. 6) Excessively polemical postings; obscene plagiarism and academic dishonesty, including the deliberate misattribution of quotations from historical documents and figures. The moderators shall interpret this rule loosely -- newsgroups are not academic journals -- but deliberate misattributions have poisoned the atmosphere in other newsgroups. 7) Posts containing profanity or excessive rudeness; posts that lack appropriate civility. While well-placed heckles are acceptable, flamewars are not. Any post full of personal abuse, slander or libel, or unauthorized reference to private e-mail addresses or mailing lists shall also be rejected. 8) Propagation of national, religious, racial, sexual, or ethnic hostility or animosity -- including posts openly justifying violence (in particular, violence against disabled people, women and children), war crimes, or ethnic cleansing. 9) Binary files, even if they are related to Ghana. Ghana-related binaries should be posted to the appropriate alt.binaries.* group with a pointer in soc.culture.ghana indicating where the binary in question may be found. Moderators will neither screen postings for intellectual content nor for accuracy beyond that contained in the charter of soc.culture.ghana. Moderators reserve the right to terminate any thread which degenerates into unacceptable namecalling, rudeness, vulgarity, or which they feel has reached its end or flash point. Such threads shall be terminated by at least 2/3 supermajority of the current moderators. Individuals who believe a particular moderator has unfairly rejected a submission can appeal to the entire panel of moderators. The panel will reevaluate the submission and make a majority decision as to whether it will be posted. In the event that the moderation panel is evenly split over whether a submission ought to be posted, the submission shall be posted. Anyone may volunteer to join the moderation panel with the consent of a two-thirds supermajority of the current moderators. Moderators also may be removed by a 2/3 supermajority of the moderation panel. Of course, moderators may resign of their own volition at any time. If traffic in the group proves heavy, the moderators may develop a robomoderation script to assist in their duties. END CHARTER. MODERATOR INFO: soc.culture.ghana Moderator: Yaw Ahenkorah < Yaw.Ahenkorah@mail.hta.com > Moderator: Kwabena Dei Ofori-Attah Moderator: Mavis A.Owusu-Gyamfi Moderator: Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo Moderator: Frederick Anang Moderator: Jerry Wonderful Simpson END MODERATOR INFO. DISTRIBUTION: This CFV has been posted to the following newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, soc.culture.african, soc.culture.nigeria, soc.culture.south-africa, soc.culture.zimbabwe, soc.culture.sierra-leone, soc.culture.liberia, soc.culture.kenya, soc.culture.african.american HOW TO VOTE Delete everything above the top "-=-=-" line and delete everything below the bottom -=-=-" line. Do not change anything between these lines, except to add your name and vote. Give your name on the line that asks for it. For each group, put your vote in the brackets next to the group name. Valid entries are ABSTAIN, CANCEL, NO, and YES. Anything else may generate an invalid vote. Don't worry about changes in spacing or any quote characters (">") that your reply may insert. Mail the ballot to . Just replying to this should work, but check the "To:" line. Votes must be mailed directly from the voter to the votetaker. Distributing pre-marked or otherwise edited ballots is considered vote fraud. Only one vote is allowed per person or per account. Votes will be acknowleged by e-mail. If you have not received an acknowledgement within a few days, contact the votetaker. It is your responsibility to be certain your vote has been recorded correctly. If you want to change your vote, you may vote again, but only the latest vote will be counted. Addresses and votes of all voters will be published in the final vote ack. The purpose of a Usenet vote is to determine the genuine interest of people who would read a proposed newsgroup. Soliciting votes from disinterested parties defeats this purpose. Please do not distribute this CFV. 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Your Vote Group (Place your vote below in the brackets next to the group) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] soc.culture.ghana -=-=-=-= END OF BALLOT: DELETE EVERYTHING BELOW THIS LINE =-=-=-=-=-=-= From david.bostwick@chemistry.gatech.edu Fri Aug 16 20:12:24 1996 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: david.bostwick@chemistry.gatech.edu (David Bostwick) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.nigeria,soc.culture.south-africa,soc.culture.zimbabwe,soc.culture.sierra-leone,soc.culture.liberia,soc.culture.kenya Subject: RESULT: soc.culture.ghana moderated fails 95:29 Supersedes: <839293622.26898@uunet.uu.net> Followup-To: news.groups Date: 16 Aug 1996 20:12:18 -0400 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers (UVV) Lines: 294 Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <840240731.16698@uunet.uu.net> References: <839293622.26898@uunet.uu.net> <838261493.1350@uunet.uu.net> Reply-To: David Bostwick NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Archive-Name: soc.culture.ghana Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:9066 news.groups:226406 soc.culture.african:59965 soc.culture.nigeria:23275 soc.culture.south-africa:19744 soc.culture.zimbabwe:3297 soc.culture.sierra-leone:2215 soc.culture.liberia:1916 soc.culture.kenya:2080 RESULT moderated group soc.culture.ghana fails 95:29 There were 95 YES votes and 29 NO votes, for a total of 124 valid votes. There was 1 invalid ballot. For group passage, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all valid (YES and NO) votes. There also must be at least 100 more YES votes than NO votes. There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted. Unless serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the group may not be voted on again for six months. Newsgroups line: soc.culture.ghana Discussion group on Ghana. (Moderated) The voting period ended at 23:59:59 UTC, 15 Aug 1996. This vote was conducted by a neutral third party. Questions about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent. Questions about the vote itself should be directed to the votetaker. Proponent: Jerry Wonderful Simpson, KE4GXJ Votetaker: David Bostwick RATIONALE: soc.culture.ghana The purpose of the newsgroup "soc.culture.ghana" is to provide a forum for discussion on issues related to Ghana. Presently, subscription to okyeame and ghana_think_tank is,by and large, restricted to Ghanaians. This newsgroup should fill the void, by allowing everyone with interest in Ghana to post messages. Infact, several people confuse Ghana with Guyana in South America, and this newsgroup is here to set the record straight on this and other issues germane to Ghana, and afford non-Ghanaians the opportunity to learn more about the Republic of Ghana and her people. Non-Ghanaians can use this forum to develop life-long friendships with Ghanaians. Besides, there is no existing Ghana newsgroup on the USENET. Therefore, the creation of the soc.culture.ghana newsgroup should address this problem. The newsgroup soc.ghana.culture newsgroup is going to bridge Ghana with the rest of the world. This soc.culture.ghana newsgroup shall also serve as the platform to develop strategies, and compare "notes" for the fight ahead of us because as they say, "two heads are better than one." CHARTER: soc.culture.ghana All issues related to Ghana can be discussed in this forum in a friendly atmosphere. However, discussions shall revolve around economy, history, politics, culture, customs, religion, education, technology, health, sports, music, marital issues (including match-making), etc provided they have something to do with Ghana and Ghanaian peoples. This newsgroup shall serve those who wanted to know about Ghana and her people but have no place to ask. We are determined to make soc.culture.ghana, a truly global newsgroup. We, therefore, invite everybody to participate. Commercial advertisements are not allowed in this newsgroup. However, adverts which deal exclusively with Ghanaian matters or which are useful to Ghanaians( such as job adverts, Ghana-interest cultural/ social events in which fees are to be paid, etc) may be allowed at the discretion of the moderators. Other adverts not related to Ghana but may be of interest to Ghanaians will be placed on a website which will be set up later. There are also other companies on the World_Wide Web that offer facilities for advertisement. Contributors are advised to observe decorum whenever they wish to post messages. Moderation Policy ----------------- We believe that moderation is not equal to censorship and should never be allowed to become one. However, we also believe that a newsgroup should be free of irrelevancies and incubi. The following shall be off-topic soc.culture.ghana 1) Posts not related to the purposes of soc.culture.ghana 2) Posts that exceed 75 characters per line 3) Crossposts to three or more newsgroups other than soc.culture.ghana 4) "Me too" posts; posts that contain an unreasonable amount of quoted text; posts that do not contribute any new discussion to an ongoing thread; intensely repetitive posts; polemics. 5) Commercial advertisements or personal advertisements that have nothing to do with Ghana; "spam" articles; and robogenerated articles. 6) Excessively polemical postings; obscene plagiarism and academic dishonesty, including the deliberate misattribution of quotations from historical documents and figures. The moderators shall interpret this rule loosely -- newsgroups are not academic journals -- but deliberate misattributions have poisoned the atmosphere in other newsgroups. 7) Posts containing profanity or excessive rudeness; posts that lack appropriate civility. While well-placed heckles are acceptable, flamewars are not. Any post full of personal abuse, slander or libel, or unauthorized reference to private e-mail addresses or mailing lists shall also be rejected. 8) Propagation of national, religious, racial, sexual, or ethnic hostility or animosity -- including posts openly justifying violence (in particular, violence against disabled people, women and children), war crimes, or ethnic cleansing. 9) Binary files, even if they are related to Ghana. Ghana-related binaries should be posted to the appropriate alt.binaries.* group with a pointer in soc.culture.ghana indicating where the binary in question may be found. Moderators will neither screen postings for intellectual content nor for accuracy beyond that contained in the charter of soc.culture.ghana. Moderators reserve the right to terminate any thread which degenerates into unacceptable namecalling, rudeness, vulgarity, or which they feel has reached its end or flash point. Such threads shall be terminated by at least 2/3 supermajority of the current moderators. Individuals who believe a particular moderator has unfairly rejected a submission can appeal to the entire panel of moderators. The panel will reevaluate the submission and make a majority decision as to whether it will be posted. In the event that the moderation panel is evenly split over whether a submission ought to be posted, the submission shall be posted. Anyone may volunteer to join the moderation panel with the consent of a two-thirds supermajority of the current moderators. Moderators also may be removed by a 2/3 supermajority of the moderation panel. Of course, moderators may resign of their own volition at any time. If traffic in the group proves heavy, the moderators may develop a robomoderation script to assist in their duties. END CHARTER. MODERATOR INFO: soc.culture.ghana Moderator: Yaw Ahenkorah < Yaw.Ahenkorah@mail.hta.com > Moderator: Kwabena Dei Ofori-Attah Moderator: Mavis A.Owusu-Gyamfi Moderator: Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo Moderator: Frederick Anang Moderator: Jerry Wonderful Simpson END MODERATOR INFO. soc.culture.ghana Final Vote Ack Voted Yes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 100551.3001@CompuServe.COM Christopher David Hunt 100701.3063@CompuServe.COM Hakeem Johnson ac121@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Siaw Akwawua adelowo@cs.tu-berlin.de Adeyinka Edward Adelowo ADZANU@sask.usask.ca STEVE KWAKU ADZANU ae446@freenet.carleton.ca Nigel Allen ajose@ifu.net Alfred Ajose akindele@austin.asc.slb.com Oluwatoyin Tunde Akindele amgiwa@cnct.com Ayotunde M. Giwa amoahapb@medlib.iaims.georgetown.edu bismarck amoahapraku arielle@taronga.com Stephanie da Silva awilhelm@hvsca01.nl.lucent.com Andre' Wilhelmus banerian@scn.org Stefani Banerian birchall@email.njin.net Dan Birchall blaka@bart.nl Raf Jacobs BONDZIE@MAINE.MAINE.EDU VICTOR BONDZIE boubah@myna.com Bah Boubacar burr@ridgecrest.ca.us Burr Patterson, Jr. C.Oguibe-ie3i0851@lmu.ac.uk Chukwuma Oguibe cabbott@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu charles abbott cage@erinet.com c j buechler cd001134@interramp.com Andrea Ashtine csfraw@cs.uta.fi Francis Awuku-Akoto cstone@math.unm.edu Chris Stone csx165@coventry.ac.uk Anton Dil cvo132@mackenzie.usask.ca Chike Odigboh dj868@freenet.carleton.ca Imeh Inyang dmoore@jeffco.k12.co.us Daniel Moore doforik@cc.cumber.edu Kwabena Dei Ofori-Attah donal@brewich.com Bill W Smith Jr donver@ncn.net Donald L. Ver Meer eclst2@lis.pitt.edu Ed Lomax edrbtsn@cs.indiana.edu Edward Robertson ekoku@chass.utoronto.ca Emmanuel Koku eomari@bwc.org Evans Omari eudomah@isd.net Elijah J. Udomah femi@cnet.com Olufemi Anthony finjws@panther.Gsu.EDU Jerry W Simpson gus@plc.com Gus Amegadzie "HASM32::UKPONG"@hassi-messaoud.wireline.slb.com UWEM UKPONG haviv@execpc.com Haviv Rettig htana@ee.mcgill.ca Hazem Nasereddin hxs330@mail.usask.ca Paul Sauder IKEBUDU@sask.usask.ca Jude Ikebudu j0a2537@acs.tamu.edu JOSEPH ANSAH jbuonomo@lyonnet.dtr.fr BUONOMO Jean-Michel jfull@nni.com James M. Fullerton jgoldner52@aol.com Janet Goldner k.kwansahaidoo@student.qut.edu.au Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo kddakwa@sisna.com Kwame Dwamena Dakwa Kobena@BU.edu Kobena Bonney kojo@ak.planet.gen.nz Kojo Arthur kquagrai@smith.re.ualberta.ca Kwamena Quagrainie ktan@pacific.net.sg Kelvin Tan marc.opoku-adusei@tu-clausthal.de Marc Opoku-Adusei marrem@gs98.IAEhv.nl Marc Remijn MEmery@aol.com Michael Emery mhao@mbhs.edu Melissa Hao mhussein@osf1.gmu.edu Muhammed Hussein mya398@mail.usask.ca YAW ASIEDU naddy@mips.pfalz.de Christian Weisgerber narobins@midway.uchicago.edu Neil Robinson nas170@mail.usask.ca Neil Schemenauer nau@mail.telepac.pt Jose Lopes Moreira neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch Matthias Neeracher ng@quattro.bb.bawue.de Nicky Gilliar oanwah@mbhs.edu Olisa Anwah odunaiya@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu Frank Ocran ofobike@dax.cc.uakron.edu EMEKA OFOBIKE OGUOCHA@sask.usask.ca Oguocha Ike okrah@adtaz.sps.mot.com Peter Okrah olav@viking.mv.com Olav Nieuwejaar paris@byu.edu Robert Craig Harman paustin@astro.ocis.temple.edu Pam Austin paxil@interlog.com Trevor Tymchuk phublou@innet.be Patrick Hublou premaq@ilhawaii.net Prema Qadir quaye@ibm.net Kofi Quaye R2BKM@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU Belete Muturo rajwi@acs.bu.edu Rajwinder Singh raluko@uoguelph.ca Rotimi Aluko revmo@mtc1.mtcnet.net Richard G. Moore=0DIf you do = rmonty@aztec.co.za Richard Montgomery sbkennedy@worldnet.att.net Stephen B. Kennedy-IV simg@indigo.ie Simon Grant sl164be@e45-hrze.uni-duisburg.de Peter Beckhaus ss17@prism.gatech.edu Sarah Shealy Susan_Almy@valley.net Susan Almy sws207@mail.usask.ca swaroop sosale tchaka@worldweb.net Tchaka Owen tempest@perth.DIALix.oz.au Sue Isle Thilo.Pfennig@kiel.netsurf.de Thilo Pfennig wane@eng.usf.edu Amadou Wane zbachore@kumc.edu Zewudie Bachore zeus@jhu.edu Jeffrey M. Odom Voted No ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @chemistry.gatech.edu":rossix!davidmo@openlink.one-o.com David Moore afabbro@umich.edu Andrew Fabbro alistair_f@lin01.global.co.za Alistair Fall bjv@herbison.com B.J. Herbison booda@datasync.com Martin H. Booda cls48@columbia.edu Christopher Lodge Stamper csaamw@urc.tue.nl Michiel Wijers david@U.Arizona.EDU David W. Crawford dballard@cs.com Don Ballard dfulton169@aol.com Daniel Fulton dlv@bwalk.dm.com Dr. Dimitri Vulis elde@hurricane.net D. Lyons gopal@ecf.toronto.edu gopal g john1@world.std.com Fred Cherry john@handel.jlc.net John Leslie Karl@crl.com Karl Golub kim@shell.portal.com Kim DeVaughn knappen@vkpmzd.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE J%org Knappen lcs@zk3.dec.com Larry Smith msoysal@mistik.express.net Mustafa Soysal MS57 patl@lcs.mit.edu Patrick J. LoPresti pgoedhar@xs4all.nl Peter T. Goedhart qut@netcom.com Dave Harman rick@bcm.tmc.edu Richard Miller shrao@nyx.net Shrisha Rao stainles@bga.com Dwight Brown tlawson@amug.org Todd C. Lawson weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de Christoph Weber-Fahr zed@cjnetworks.com Ned Fleming Votes in error ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ crw@loop.com ! No name given