From perimath@sn.no Wed Feb 26 11:49:13 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: perimath@sn.no (Per I. Mathisen) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.politics.radical-left,misc.activism.progressive,alt.politics.socialism.trotsky,soc.politics.marxism,alt.anarchism Subject: RFD: misc.activism.radical-left moderated Followup-To: news.groups Message-ID: <856985642.10927@isc.org> Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Archive-Name: misc.activism.radical-left Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:34:02 GMT Lines: 124 Xref: news.isc.org news.announce.newgroups:118 REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) moderated group misc.activism.radical-left This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of a world-wide unmoderated Usenet newsgroup group.name. This is not a Call for Votes (CFV); you cannot vote at this time. Procedural details are below. Newsgroup line: misc.activism.radical-left Discussion of radical left issues. (Moderated) RATIONALE: misc.activism.radical-left There is currently a high-volume newsgroup by the name "alt.politics.radical-left". This proposal intends to move that newsgroup into the "big 8" hierachy in order to increase propagation -- the number of sites the newsgroup is available at -- and make it automoderated to stop the excessive crossposting that is now threatening to strangle the newsgroup. A simple Dejanews search reveals that 18095 articles have been posted or crossposted to alt.politics.radical-left since 4. January 1997. (By comparison similiarily misc.activism.progressive received 6153 articles, alt.politics.socialism 2205 and soc.politics.marxism 168.) The newsgroup "alt.politics.radical-left" will not technically be affected in any way -- it will NOT be removed by this proposal. The new newsgroup will not be content-moderated. Moderation will be applied mechanically and automatically by the moderation software according to the rules of the charter below. CHARTER: misc.activism.radical-left The "radical left" includes quite a lot of different political categories, groups and traditions. Common to all is that our political views collide with those of mainstream politics and originate from a left-wing perspective. This newsgroup is for the discussion of issues that are of concern and interest to the radical left in general and internationally, either from or against a left-wing perspective. Articles may not be posted here if they are more appropriate in another newsgroup. Press-articles or other kinds of mass posts are not appropriate (these can be sent to misc.activism.progressive or alt.politics.radical-left). Commercials are not allowed. Posts to the newsgroup will be automatically accepted as long as they do not violate any of the following rules: - The post is not sent to any more than two newsgroups - The Subject: line does not contain a "$" or any words in all caps (this to eliminate $$MAKE MONEY FAST$$ varieties) - An identical post has not already been sent to the newsgroup - The poster is not on the auto-rejection list (see below) - Poster's address requires valid PGP signature (see below) Newsgroup policy can be changed by vote with 2/3 majority. Such a vote can also place an email address, several email addresses or an entire domain on the auto-rejection list. To initiate a vote, raise the problem in the newsgroup, then send a formal request to the moderators a week later. Votes are started at the moderators' discretion, and run by the moderators. No new criterias for approval of postings will be added to the moderation software without a vote. Franchise may be restricted to those who have posted to the newsgroup in the last few months if it is feared that extensive campaigning will take place outside of the newsgroup itself in order to affect the outcome of the vote. The moderators reserve the right to place addresses or domains on the auto-rejection list immediately if this is necessary to stop somebody from filling the newsgroup with junk, and to issue cancel messages against any such articles afterwards. The newsgroup software will support PGP encryption and signing. Posters may register their public PGP key and demand that no posts from their accounts are approved unless signed with their private PGP key. END CHARTER. MODERATOR INFO: misc.activism.radical-left Moderator: Per I. Mathisen Moderator: Chris A. Williams Moderator: Annette Dexter END MODERATOR INFO. PROCEDURE: This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this phase of the process, any potential problems with the proposed newsgroups should be raised and resolved. The discussion period will 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 (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, alt.politics.radical-left, misc.activism.progressive, alt.politics.socialism.trotsky, soc.politics.marxism, alt.anarchism and the following mailing list: left-unity@lists.village.virginia.edu Subscribe via: majordomo@lists.village.virginia.edu Proponent: Per I. Mathisen Proponent: Chris A. Williams Proponent: Annette Dexter From perimath@sn.no Wed Mar 19 09:15:20 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: perimath@sn.no (Per I. Mathisen) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.politics.radical-left,misc.activism.progressive,alt.politics.socialism.trotsky,soc.politics.marxism,alt.anarchism Subject: 2nd RFD: misc.activism.radical-left moderated Followup-To: news.groups Message-ID: <858790838.21340@isc.org> Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Archive-Name: misc.activism.radical-left Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 17:00:38 GMT Lines: 133 Xref: news.isc.org news.announce.newgroups:213 REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) moderated group misc.activism.radical-left This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of a world-wide moderated Usenet newsgroup misc.activism.radical-left. This is not a Call for Votes (CFV); you cannot vote at this time. Procedural details are below. CHANGES from previous RFD: Charter and rationale slightly rewritten to define the moderators' role more clearly -- nothing substantial added, but robomoderator no longer tries to reject chain letters. New moderator added. Newsgroup line: misc.activism.radical-left Discussion of radical left issues. (Moderated) RATIONALE: misc.activism.radical-left There is currently a high-volume newsgroup by the name "alt.politics.radical-left". This proposal intends to move that newsgroup into the "big 8" hierachy in order to increase propagation -- the number of sites the newsgroup is available at -- and make it automoderated to stop the excessive crossposting that is now threatening to strangle the newsgroup. A simple Dejanews search reveals that 15389 articles have been posted or crossposted to alt.politics.radical-left from 4. January to 19. March 1997. (By comparison misc.activism.progressive received 4566 articles, soc.politics.marxism 200 and news.groups 11287 in the same period.) The newsgroup "alt.politics.radical-left" will not technically be affected in any way -- it will NOT be removed by this proposal. The new newsgroup will NOT be content-moderated. Moderation will be applied mechanically and automatically by the moderation software according to the rules of the charter below. The moderators will be maintainers of the robomoderation software, and not pass subjective judgement on any articles. CHARTER: misc.activism.radical-left The "radical left" includes quite a lot of different political categories, groups and traditions. Common to all is that our political views collide with those of mainstream politics and originate from a left-wing perspective. This newsgroup is for the discussion of issues that are of concern and interest to the radical left in general and internationally, either from or against a left-wing perspective. Articles may not be posted here if they are more appropriate in another newsgroup. Press-articles or other kinds of mass posts are not appropriate (these can be sent to misc.activism.progressive or alt.politics.radical-left). Commercials and chain-letters are not allowed. A post to the newsgroup will be automatically accepted as long as... 1) ...its newsgroups line includes no more than two newsgroups 2) ...it has not already been submitted to the newsgroup 3) ...the poster's address does not require a valid PGP signature (these will be treated differently, see below) 4) ... the poster is not on the auto-rejection list (see below) Newsgroup policy can be changed by vote with 2/3 majority. Such a vote can also place an email address, several email addresses or an entire domain on the auto-rejection list. To initiate a vote, raise the problem in the newsgroup, then send a formal request to the moderators a week later. Votes are started at the moderators' discretion, and run by the moderators. No new criterias for approval of postings will be added to the moderation software without a vote. Franchise may be restricted to those who have posted to the newsgroup in the last few months if it is feared that extensive campaigning will take place outside of the newsgroup itself in order to affect the outcome of the vote. In the event of denial of service attacks (massively filling the newsgroup with junk), several fake approvals, spam or other serious forms of net abuse, the moderators will contact the violator's ISP, report the incident to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet, put the address on the auto-rejection list and cancel the offending articles. The newsgroup software will support PGP encryption and signing. Posters may register their public PGP key and demand that no posts from their accounts are approved unless signed with their private PGP key. END CHARTER. MODERATOR INFO: misc.activism.radical-left Moderator: Per I. Mathisen Moderator: Chris A. Williams Moderator: Annette Dexter Moderator: Luciano Dondero END MODERATOR INFO. PROCEDURE: This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this phase of the process, any potential problems with the proposed newsgroups should be raised and resolved. The discussion period will 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 (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, alt.politics.radical-left, misc.activism.progressive, alt.politics.socialism.trotsky, soc.politics.marxism, alt.anarchism and the following mailing list: left-unity@lists.village.virginia.edu Subscribe via: majordomo@lists.village.virginia.edu Proponent: Per I. Mathisen Proponent: Chris A. Williams Proponent: Annette Dexter From jjd@primenet.com Thu May 8 07:23:04 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: Jim Davis Reply-To: jjd@primenet.com Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.anarchism,alt.politics.radical-left,alt.politics.socialism.trotsky,misc.activism.progressive,soc.politics.marxism Subject: CFV: misc.activism.radical-left moderated Followup-To: poster Message-ID: <863078147.7094@isc.org> Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Expires: 30 May 1997 00:00:00 GMT Archive-Name: misc.activism.radical-left Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 07:55:48 GMT Lines: 151 Xref: news.isc.org news.announce.newgroups:400 FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2) moderated group misc.activism.radical-left Newsgroups line: misc.activism.radical-left Discussion of radical-left issues. (Moderated) Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 29 May 1997. This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. Questions about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent. Proponent: Per I. Mathisen Proponent: Chris A. Williams Proponent: Annette Dexter Votetaker: Jim Davis RATIONALE: misc.activism.radical-left There is currently a high-volume newsgroup by the name "alt.politics.radical-left". This proposal intends to move that newsgroup into the "big 8" hierachy in order to increase propagation -- the number of sites the newsgroup is available at -- and make it automoderated to stop the excessive crossposting that is now threatening to strangle the newsgroup. A simple Dejanews search reveals that 15389 articles have been posted or crossposted to alt.politics.radical-left from 4. January to 19. March 1997. (By comparison misc.activism.progressive received 4566 articles, soc.politics.marxism 200 and news.groups 11287 in the same period.) The newsgroup "alt.politics.radical-left" will not technically be affected in any way -- it will NOT be removed by this proposal. The new newsgroup will NOT be content-moderated. Moderation will be applied mechanically and automatically by the moderation software according to the rules of the charter below. The moderators will be maintainers of the robomoderation software, and not pass subjective judgement on any articles. CHARTER: misc.activism.radical-left The "radical left" includes quite a lot of different political categories, groups and traditions. Common to all is that our political views collide with those of mainstream politics and originate from a left-wing perspective. This newsgroup is for the discussion of issues that are of concern and interest to the radical left in general and internationally, either from or against a left-wing perspective. Articles may not be posted here if they are more appropriate in another newsgroup. Press-articles or other kinds of mass posts are not appropriate (these can be sent to misc.activism.progressive or alt.politics.radical-left). Commercials and chain-letters are not allowed. A post to the newsgroup will be automatically accepted as long as... 1) ...its newsgroups line includes no more than two newsgroups 2) ...it has not already been submitted to the newsgroup 3) ...the poster's address does not require a valid PGP signature (these will be treated differently, see below) 4) ...the poster is not on the auto-rejection list (see below) Newsgroup policy can be changed by vote with 2/3 majority. Such a vote can also place an email address, several email addresses or an entire domain on the auto-rejection list. To initiate a vote, raise the problem in the newsgroup, then send a formal request to the moderators a week later. Votes are started at the moderators' discretion, and run by the moderators. No new criterias for approval of postings will be added to the moderation software without a vote. Franchise may be restricted to those who have posted to the newsgroup in the last few months if it is feared that extensive campaigning will take place outside of the newsgroup itself in order to affect the outcome of the vote. In the event of denial of service attacks (massively filling the newsgroup with junk), several fake approvals, spam or other serious forms of net abuse, the moderators will contact the violator's ISP, report the incident to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet, put the address on the auto-rejection list and cancel the offending articles. The newsgroup software will support PGP encryption and signing. Posters may register their public PGP key and demand that no posts from their accounts are approved unless signed with their private PGP key. END CHARTER. MODERATOR INFO: misc.activism.radical-left Moderator: "Per I. Mathisen" Moderator: "Chris A. Williams" Moderator: "Annette Dexter" Moderator: "Luciano Dondero" Administrative contact address: marl-admin@nvg.ntnu.no Article submission address: marl-submit@nvg.ntnu.no END MODERATOR INFO. HOW TO VOTE: Follow these instructions *exactly*! Votes are counted by computer. You should send E-MAIL (posts to a newsgroup are invalid) to: jjd@primenet.com Please do not assume that just replying to this message will work. Check the address before you mail your vote. Your mail message should contain one and only one of the following vote statements: I vote YES on misc.activism.radical-left I vote NO on misc.activism.radical-left You may also vote ABSTAIN (which records an empty vote) or CANCEL (which removes any earlier votes). ABSTAIN does not affect the final vote count in any way but is listed, whereas CANCEL is not. If these instructions are unclear, please consult the Introduction to Usenet Voting or the Usenet Voting FAQ at http://www.hut.fi/~jpatokal/uvv/. IMPORTANT VOTING PROCEDURE NOTES: Standard Guidelines for voting apply. One vote per person, one account per voter. Votes must be mailed directly from the voter to the votetaker. Anonymous, forwarded or proxy votes are not valid. Votes mailed by WWW/HTML/CGI forms are considered to be anonymous votes. Standard Guidelines for voting apply. One person, one vote. Votes must be mailed directly from the voter to the votetaker. Anonymous, forwarded or proxy votes are not valid. Votes mailed by WWW/HTML/CGI forms are considered to be anonymous votes. Vote counting is automated. Failure to follow these directions may mean that your vote does not get counted. If you do not receive an acknowledgment of your vote within three days contact the votetaker about the problem. It's your responsibility to make sure your vote is registered correctly. Duplicate votes are resolved in favor of the most recent valid vote. Addresses and votes of all voters will be published in the final voting results post. The purpose of a Usenet vote is to determine the genuine interest of persons 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 to news.announce.newgroups. Distributing pre-marked or otherwise edited copies of this CFV is generally considered to be vote fraud. When in doubt, ask the votetaker. This CFV was created with uvpq 1.0zeta (May 7 1997). PQ datestamp: 970221 From jjd@primenet.com Wed May 21 10:45:06 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: Jim Davis Reply-To: jjd@primenet.com Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.anarchism,alt.politics.radical-left,alt.politics.socialism.trotsky,misc.activism.progressive,soc.politics.marxism Subject: 2nd CFV: misc.activism.radical-left moderated Followup-To: poster Message-ID: <864236644.13825@isc.org> Supersedes: <863078147.7094@isc.org> Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Expires: 30 May 1997 00:00:00 GMT Archive-Name: misc.activism.radical-left Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 17:44:05 GMT Lines: 156 Xref: news.isc.org news.announce.newgroups:436 LAST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2) moderated group misc.activism.radical-left Newsgroups line: misc.activism.radical-left Discussion of radical-left issues. (Moderated) Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 29 May 1997. This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. Questions about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent. Proponent: Per I. Mathisen Proponent: Chris A. Williams Proponent: Annette Dexter Votetaker: Jim Davis RATIONALE: misc.activism.radical-left There is currently a high-volume newsgroup by the name "alt.politics.radical-left". This proposal intends to move that newsgroup into the "big 8" hierachy in order to increase propagation -- the number of sites the newsgroup is available at -- and make it automoderated to stop the excessive crossposting that is now threatening to strangle the newsgroup. A simple Dejanews search reveals that 15389 articles have been posted or crossposted to alt.politics.radical-left from 4. January to 19. March 1997. (By comparison misc.activism.progressive received 4566 articles, soc.politics.marxism 200 and news.groups 11287 in the same period.) The newsgroup "alt.politics.radical-left" will not technically be affected in any way -- it will NOT be removed by this proposal. The new newsgroup will NOT be content-moderated. Moderation will be applied mechanically and automatically by the moderation software according to the rules of the charter below. The moderators will be maintainers of the robomoderation software, and not pass subjective judgement on any articles. CHARTER: misc.activism.radical-left The "radical left" includes quite a lot of different political categories, groups and traditions. Common to all is that our political views collide with those of mainstream politics and originate from a left-wing perspective. This newsgroup is for the discussion of issues that are of concern and interest to the radical left in general and internationally, either from or against a left-wing perspective. Articles may not be posted here if they are more appropriate in another newsgroup. Press-articles or other kinds of mass posts are not appropriate (these can be sent to misc.activism.progressive or alt.politics.radical-left). Commercials and chain-letters are not allowed. A post to the newsgroup will be automatically accepted as long as... 1) ...its newsgroups line includes no more than two newsgroups 2) ...it has not already been submitted to the newsgroup 3) ...the poster's address does not require a valid PGP signature (these will be treated differently, see below) 4) ...the poster is not on the auto-rejection list (see below) Newsgroup policy can be changed by vote with 2/3 majority. Such a vote can also place an email address, several email addresses or an entire domain on the auto-rejection list. To initiate a vote, raise the problem in the newsgroup, then send a formal request to the moderators a week later. Votes are started at the moderators' discretion, and run by the moderators. No new criterias for approval of postings will be added to the moderation software without a vote. Franchise may be restricted to those who have posted to the newsgroup in the last few months if it is feared that extensive campaigning will take place outside of the newsgroup itself in order to affect the outcome of the vote. In the event of denial of service attacks (massively filling the newsgroup with junk), several fake approvals, spam or other serious forms of net abuse, the moderators will contact the violator's ISP, report the incident to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet, put the address on the auto-rejection list and cancel the offending articles. The newsgroup software will support PGP encryption and signing. Posters may register their public PGP key and demand that no posts from their accounts are approved unless signed with their private PGP key. END CHARTER. MODERATOR INFO: misc.activism.radical-left Moderator: "Per I. Mathisen" Moderator: "Chris A. Williams" Moderator: "Annette Dexter" Moderator: "Luciano Dondero" Administrative contact address: marl-admin@nvg.ntnu.no Article submission address: marl-submit@nvg.ntnu.no END MODERATOR INFO. HOW TO VOTE: Follow these instructions *exactly*! Votes are counted by computer. You should send E-MAIL (posts to a newsgroup are invalid) to: jjd@primenet.com Please do not assume that just replying to this message will work. Check the address before you mail your vote. Your mail message should contain one and only one of the following vote statements: I vote YES on misc.activism.radical-left I vote NO on misc.activism.radical-left You may also vote ABSTAIN (which records an empty vote) or CANCEL (which removes any earlier votes). ABSTAIN does not affect the final vote count in any way but is listed, whereas CANCEL is not. If these instructions are unclear, please consult the Introduction to Usenet Voting or the Usenet Voting FAQ at http://www.hut.fi/~jpatokal/uvv/. IMPORTANT VOTING PROCEDURE NOTES: Standard Guidelines for voting apply. One vote per person, one account per voter. Votes must be mailed directly from the voter to the votetaker. Anonymous, forwarded or proxy votes are not valid. Votes mailed by WWW/HTML/CGI forms are considered to be anonymous votes. Standard Guidelines for voting apply.. One person, one vote. Votes must be mailed directly from the voter to the votetaker. Anonymous, forwarded or proxy votes are not valid. Votes mailed by WWW/HTML/CGI forms are considered to be anonymous votes. Vote counting is automated. Failure to follow these directions may mean that your vote does not get counted. If you do not receive an acknowledgment of your vote within three days contact the votetaker about the problem. It's your responsibility to make sure your vote is registered correctly. Duplicate votes are resolved in favor of the most recent valid vote. Addresses and votes of all voters will be published in the final voting results post. The purpose of a Usenet vote is to determine the genuine interest of persons 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 to news.announce.newgroups. Distributing pre-marked or otherwise edited copies of this CFV is generally considered to be vote fraud. When in doubt, ask the votetaker. This CFV was created with uvpq 1.0zeta (May 7 1997). PQ datestamp: 970221 misc.activism.radical-left Bounce List - No need to revote ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ mgillman@nospam.halcyon.com Michael Gillman From jjd@primenet.com Thu May 29 21:00:09 1997 Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back From: Jim Davis Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,alt.anarchism,alt.politics.radical-left,alt.politics.socialism.trotsky,misc.activism.progressive,soc.politics.marxism Subject: RESULT: misc.activism.radical-left moderated fails 115:90 Followup-To: news.groups Message-ID: <864964243.10607@isc.org> Supersedes: <864236644.13825@isc.org> Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org Archive-Name: misc.activism.radical-left Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 03:50:45 GMT Lines: 323 Xref: news.isc.org news.announce.newgroups:462 RESULT moderated group misc.activism.radical-left fails 115:90 There were 115 YES votes and 90 NO votes, for a total of 205 valid votes. There was 1 abstain. 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: misc.activism.radical-left Discussion of radical-left issues. (Moderated) This vote was conducted by a neutral third party. Questions about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent. Proponent: Per I. Mathisen Proponent: Chris A. Williams Proponent: Annette Dexter Votetaker: Jim Davis RATIONALE: misc.activism.radical-left There is currently a high-volume newsgroup by the name "alt.politics.radical-left". This proposal intends to move that newsgroup into the "big 8" hierachy in order to increase propagation -- the number of sites the newsgroup is available at -- and make it automoderated to stop the excessive crossposting that is now threatening to strangle the newsgroup. A simple Dejanews search reveals that 15389 articles have been posted or crossposted to alt.politics.radical-left from 4. January to 19. March 1997. (By comparison misc.activism.progressive received 4566 articles, soc.politics.marxism 200 and news.groups 11287 in the same period.) The newsgroup "alt.politics.radical-left" will not technically be affected in any way -- it will NOT be removed by this proposal. The new newsgroup will NOT be content-moderated. Moderation will be applied mechanically and automatically by the moderation software according to the rules of the charter below. The moderators will be maintainers of the robomoderation software, and not pass subjective judgement on any articles. CHARTER: misc.activism.radical-left The "radical left" includes quite a lot of different political categories, groups and traditions. Common to all is that our political views collide with those of mainstream politics and originate from a left-wing perspective. This newsgroup is for the discussion of issues that are of concern and interest to the radical left in general and internationally, either from or against a left-wing perspective. Articles may not be posted here if they are more appropriate in another newsgroup. Press-articles or other kinds of mass posts are not appropriate (these can be sent to misc.activism.progressive or alt.politics.radical-left). Commercials and chain-letters are not allowed. A post to the newsgroup will be automatically accepted as long as... 1) ...its newsgroups line includes no more than two newsgroups 2) ...it has not already been submitted to the newsgroup 3) ...the poster's address does not require a valid PGP signature (these will be treated differently, see below) 4) ...the poster is not on the auto-rejection list (see below) Newsgroup policy can be changed by vote with 2/3 majority. Such a vote can also place an email address, several email addresses or an entire domain on the auto-rejection list. To initiate a vote, raise the problem in the newsgroup, then send a formal request to the moderators a week later. Votes are started at the moderators' discretion, and run by the moderators. No new criterias for approval of postings will be added to the moderation software without a vote. Franchise may be restricted to those who have posted to the newsgroup in the last few months if it is feared that extensive campaigning will take place outside of the newsgroup itself in order to affect the outcome of the vote. In the event of denial of service attacks (massively filling the newsgroup with junk), several fake approvals, spam or other serious forms of net abuse, the moderators will contact the violator's ISP, report the incident to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet, put the address on the auto-rejection list and cancel the offending articles. The newsgroup software will support PGP encryption and signing. Posters may register their public PGP key and demand that no posts from their accounts are approved unless signed with their private PGP key. END CHARTER. MODERATOR INFO: misc.activism.radical-left Moderator: "Per I. Mathisen" Moderator: "Chris A. Williams" Moderator: "Annette Dexter" Moderator: "Luciano Dondero" Administrative contact address: marl-admin@nvg.ntnu.no Article submission address: marl-submit@nvg.ntnu.no END MODERATOR INFO. misc.activism.radical-left Final Vote Ack Voted Yes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ abarhydt@teleport.com ac119@torfree.net Tom Patterson al715@yfn.ysu.edu Tina M. Wood alan@alansden.demon.co.uk Alan Alberry alanb@hoima.i-way.co.uk also@also.ol.ni.schule.de altaf@wco.com Altaf Bhimji amnonc@mercury.co.il Amnon Cohen bafoster@aol.com BAFoster bdw@ccom.net Brian Wright bh@CS.Berkeley.EDU Brian Harvey bobsh@best.com Bob Sheppard C.Knight@uel.ac.uk Chris Knight cfaatz@teleport.com Chris Faatz Charles.Stewart@comlab.ox.ac.uk Charles Stewart charli.barbara@virgin.net Charli Langford chrajohn@indiana.edu Christopher A. Johnson chris@atomism.demon.co.uk Chris Croome chriswa@microsoft.com Chris Waldron cipher@mindspring.com Cipher cjame@spc.uchicago.edu Carwil James ckk@ckk.com Chris Koenigsberg dan.epstein@lol.shareworld.com Dan Epstein dan016@telerama.lm.com Disco Crisis dc@panix.com David W. Crawford dd0l+@andrew.cmu.edu David P Demarest deadlock@one.net DeadLock the Feral dg@ivu-berlin.de DOND001@PN.ITNET.IT Luciano Dondero dough@ft-b.isc-br.com Doug Hockin E.PETERSEN@TRILOS.han.de Erik Petersen ebehr@internode.net Eve M. Behr eblake@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Eliot Blake eldar@hrcenter.baku.az Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan emily@vex.net Emily Way euthke@siam.muc.de Ekkehard Uthke f.ledgis@morehead-st.edu FRAGANO S LEDGISTER frog@stubbe-lab.mit.edu Annette Dexter furrball@nym.alias.net Furrball galliher@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu C. G. Estabrook gc1@sanger.ac.uk Graham Clark gcf@panix.com G*rd*n goran@bildbasen.se Goran Thyni hkpwd@TheOffice.net Kevin Li hkt@wwa.com Henrietta Thomas Ingo.Schwarze@cern.ch Ingo Schwarze J.C.M.Fisher@qmw.ac.uk JCMFISHER.BSU_DOM j.perlwitz@cl-hh.comlink.de jan perlwitz jamal@bronze.lcs.mit.edu Jamal Hannah jasmine@fl.net.au Jasmine Taylor jbeST2+@pitt.edu Jimmer ENDRES jdresner@husc.harvard.edu Jonathan Dresner jeffwong@uclink4.berkeley.edu Jeff Wong jeliza+@red-dwarf.fac.cs.cmu.edu jkramer1@swarthmore.edu Josh Kramer jmalina@hooked.net Jo Ann Malina jpc@drum.msfc.nasa.gov J. Porter Clark jpindc@erols.com Jonathan Prince julio@umiacs.umd.edu Julio Rosenblatt K95dl01@aol.com knappen@iphcip1.physik.uni-mainz.de J%org Knappen ktk9091@is2.nyu.edu kwattles@mindspring.com Kirk Wattles kwgxxh@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au Mark LOCKETT llb@gn.apc.org M.Cooke@dcs.shef.ac.uk Martin Cooke MANUEL@edc1.gsph.pitt.edu Manuel S. Lombardero mark@mhark.demon.co.uk Mark Houghton mgillman@nospam.halcyon.com Michael Gillman Michael@jlmaa.demon.co.uk Michael Stephenson mirko.driller@rz.hu-berlin.de Mirko Driller msacks@spyglass.com Sacks, Marc mue@gsf.de Bernhard Muenzer naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de Christian Weisgerber ndallen@interlog.com Nigel Allen neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch Matthias Neeracher nick@inferno.fc.hp.com Nick Ingegneri nl4hpm2p@ibmmail.com nospam@fwb.gulf.net Jules Dubois notowar@telerama.lm.com vincent scotti eirene PAT9209@aol.com paxil@inorth.on.ca Trevor perimath@sn.no Per I. Mathisen peter@taronga.com Peter da Silva pfeeley@unixg.ubc.ca Philip Feeley phil@panix.com Phil Gustafson pjdst7+@pitt.edu Peter J Dinardo R.T.Croskery@btinternet.com Robin Croskery Randell.Jesup@scala.com Randell Jesup raoul@ind.tansu.com.au Raoul Golan rcgraves@disposable.com Rich Graves richsong@vcn.bc.ca Richard Songhurst rick@bcm.tmc.edu Richard H. Miller robert.wiander@online.tietokone.fi Robert Wiander rufinus@mbe.ece.wisc.edu J Rufinus sariyerli@zetnet.co.uk Michael Coyle sebastian.bork@usa.net Sebastian Bork simon@speed.demon.co.uk Simon Speed sreeni@ktpsp1.uni-paderborn.de Sreenivas Paruchuri srinivas@hpanvl.an.hp.com Chukka Srinivas srussell@nova.umuc.edu Steve taller01@maptel.es SOFTWARE DE INGENIERIA, Taller01 tallpaul@hiatus.demon.co.uk Paul M Thomas.Granvold@Eng.Sun.COM Tom Granvold THREEONEG@aol.com tkanaana@mtu.edu Tarik Kanaana tkeefer@uoguelph.ca K.P. Ivanov tshenkel@billings.lib.mt.us bunnyTshens* twarnke@unlinfo.unl.edu todd warnke ukali07@gnofn.org Ukali Mwendo WGDCC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Walter Daum wgilmore@concentric.net gil gilmore wsheasby@ix.netcom.com Walter Sheasby xav_am@sfsu.edu Xavier Aubuchon-Mendoza zot@ampersand.com Mark Atwood Voted No ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ a2mishra@novice.uwaterloo.ca A Mishra bbowen@olympus.net Barbara Bowen bill.burns@daltile.com Bill Burns bjohnson@sobek.Colorado.EDU Johnson Brett Edward bonine@interaccess.com Steve Bonine booda@datasync.com Martin H. Booda bouvin@daimi.aau.dk Niels Olof Bouvin bruce@phix.com Bruce Baugh cberlet@igc.apc.org Chip Berlet cdr@livingston.com Carl Rigney cfrlw01@eiu.edu Bob Whittenbarger cts@dragon.com Charles T. Smith, Jr. d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se Bertil Jonell david@work.net.nz David Farrar dburton@burtonsys.com David Burton dhanson@hal-pc.org David L. Hanson donna@blackwidow.houston.tx.us Donna Marie Calcote dpml@hotmail.com Parthasarathy Devanathan dputzolu@teleport.com David M. Putzolu dshao@best.com David Shao estep@ix.netcom.com Christopher Estep fbp@igc.apc.org John M. Miller FHDUCHO1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL Ehud Duchovni geskin@admin.njit.edu ERNEST GESKIN, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING GODFREYE@acad.ripon.edu Eric Godfrey gpr96002@uconnvm.uconn.edu G.P. Ryan HARVEY@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU James Harvey hfung@lerami.lerctr.org Hank Fung jacobim@eagle.navsses.navy.mil jcwood@hal-pc.org Jack C. Wood jdholmes@igc.org John Holmes jenoff@interlog.com Allan Jenoff jherd@sprynet.com Jonathan Herdman jlmiller@yorku.ca Laurence Miller john1@world.std.com Fred Cherry jonesg@tmx.com.au Geraldine Jones jons@stud.cs.uit.no Jon Vidar Schneider jraw@igc.org Jeremy Raw kimdv@netcom.com Kim DeVaughn kpc@enteract.com Kevin Coffee KRdaly@aol.com kruegert@agcs.com lcs@zk3.dec.com Larry Smith libertaria@igc.apc.org LSEAMANS@MU3.MILLERSV.EDU Lynne Seamans mark@csc.albany.edu Mark Steinberger mfischer@cas.org Mark B. Fischer ext. 3351 mlc@iberia.cca.rockwell.com Michael Cook ncp@darkwing.uoregon.edu N Christopher Phillips nick@cimio.co.uk Nick Waterman olav@viking.mv.com Olav Nieuwejaar outlook@gn.apc.org Socialist Outlook paal@ekran.no The Last Viking paris@byu.edu Robert Craig Harman patl@lcs.mit.edu Patrick J. LoPresti pcouvare@family.hampshire.edu Peter Couvares pinknoiz@ccnet.com Bob Gonsalves ppeters@northpark.edu Peter A. Peterson II quakeuk.demon.co.uk@pop3.demon.co.uk r11140@er.uqam.ca Stephen SCHECTER rance.tamari@virgin.net Roland Rance Richard.Bos@hagcott.meganet.co.uk Richard Bos rlcarr@animato.pn.com Rich Carreiro rokem@cc.huji.ac.il Stefan Rokem ronp@nyct.net Ron Painter roses@capecod.net Dolores Scaldini Klimm rosmanha@pinkinc.com H. A. Rosman rrb@ior.com Bob blanchard s.bromberger@dcs.napier.ac.uk Simon Bromberger schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de Georg Schwarz scott@murmur.demon.co.uk Scott Thomas shimeall@cs.nps.navy.mil Timothy Shimeall slr1bpz@mindspring.com SoloviJ@archives.gov.on.ca Solovitch, Joseph stainles@bga.com Dwight Brown stamper@stamper.com Chris Stamper stein@math.uconn.edu Alan H. Stein steiners@primenet.com Jason and Heather sylvain@ix.netcom.com Nicholas Sylvain tack@draziw.com ryan tallpaul@nyct.net Paul Kneisel tknab@nyx.net Terry E. Knab tlawson@amug.org Todd C. Lawson tonyb@null.net Tony Basoglu tonys@wt.net Tony Storz umwhit46@cc.UManitoba.CA wright@cs.wisc.edu Derek Wright yanowitz@jimi.hmm.com Jason Yanowitz zclhn21@ucl.ac.uk Erika Bloom zed@cjnetworks.com Ned Fleming Abstained ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ blainn@the.address.below Blain Nelson