From p.k.svendsen@jus.uio.no Tue Sep 19 13:16:52 1995 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: p.k.svendsen@jus.uio.no (Per-Kaare Svendsen) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,rec.travel.misc,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.south-africa,soc.culture.egyptian,soc.culture.zimbabwe Subject: RFD: rec.travel.africa Followup-To: news.groups Date: 19 Sep 1995 17:16:47 -0000 Organization: . Lines: 118 Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <43mttv$83u@rodan.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Archive-Name: rec.travel.africa Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:7524 news.groups:167701 rec.travel.misc:20143 soc.culture.african:43521 soc.culture.south-africa:8394 soc.culture.egyptian:4847 soc.culture.zimbabwe:306 REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) unmoderated group rec.travel.africa Proponent: Per-Kaare Svendsen Mentor: Ilana Stern Newsgroups line: rec.travel.africa Travel and tourism in Africa. Follow-ups are directed to news.groups - please honour This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) on the creation of a new internet-wide unmoderated usenet newsgroup, rec.travel.africa RATIONALE: rec.travel.africa Africa is the world's second largest continent. It hides rare and fascinating places for any traveller, no matter how big/small the budget. The african countries are now lumped in incongruously and unidentifiably (namelessly) with several other major world regions in the rec.travel.misc. newsgroup. According to the charter the rec.travel.misc is supposed to be the place for discussing travel related topics in countries that do not fit into the other newsgroups in the rec.travel.* hierarchy. The designation "misc." has little meaning by itself and many posters have no idea that this group is designated for the leftovers from the other newsgroups such as Africa, the Middle East, Antarctica and Oceania. In addition the group covers a very useful miscellany that may effect travelers in general. The fact that a lot of the r.t.misc users do not obide by the guidelines posted regularly adds to the confusion. During the last year the numbers of misplaced postings have exceeded the appropriate postings and hence it is time-consuming and difficult to use the group for constructive dicussions due to a high "noise-ratio". As the new newsgroup rec.travel.latin-america passed and is now operating, the percent of inapropriate postings have increased. These problems can be solved by forming a separate group dealing with african travel exclusively. CHARTER: rec.travel.africa The group rec.travel.africa shall be unmoderated. rec.travel.africab shall provide an open, easily accessible, electronic conferencing system or bulletin board for the African travel community on the Internet. Participants are welcome and encouraged to browse, read, post, and use this newsgroup as an information server, discussion area and electronic conferencing system to its maximum advantage. Being an unmoderated newsgroup, no one will own or run this newsgroup. Participants should use this discussion forum with enthusiasm and realism. Courtesy is greatly appreciated. rec.travel.africa shall be open for discussion about all facets of travel on the continent. Primarily topics like how-to-get there, how-to-get-around, accomodation, wildlife, and other travel related issues are the aim of this group. Even though the main topic and dominant subject feature is travel, discussion may also include topics such as culture, archaeology, architecture, ethnology, photography, history, geology, politics, diving, mountain climbing, arts, music, cuisine, ecology, ornithology, etc, Discussion concerning a topic that is the object of another newsgroup are kindly requested to be posted in the apropriate group. This means that topics concerning modes of travel and marketing etc. should be posted in the appropriate groups. This newsgroup allows travelers to help other travelers - much like we do on the road. Personal experiences and travel strories are much welcome - even without a preceding question. This is not a forum for advertising and commercial interests and such posts will not be welcome. There is nothing wrong with commerce and advertising, this just isn't the place for it. If you have a product or a tour, please post your message in rec.travel.marketplace or other locations. The general "netiquette" FAQs posted in news.announce.newusers and news.answers apply to rec.travel.africa. Excessive flaming is discouraged. END CHARTER. PROCEDURE: Posting of this RFD initiates a discussion period of at least 21 days. Discussion about the proposed newsgroup will take place on news.groups ONLY, which is a newsgroup dedicated to the discussion of new newsgroups, and anyone interested is encouraged to participate. Also note that under the Usenet guidelines: The RFD discussion period will last for between 21 and 30 days. The discussion will be followed by a CFV (Call for Votes). The vote will be run by a neutral third party, probably the Usenet Volunteer Votetakers (UVV). This message is *not* a Call For Votes (CFV) - do not try to vote: before the CFV is posted, or by posting anything anywhere, or by sending e-mail to anyone but the votetaker. The voting procedure will be clearly described in the CFV when the time to vote arrives. Now is NOT the time to vote. DISTRIBUTION: The RFD will be posted to the following newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, rec.travel.usa-canada, rec.travel.misc, rec.travel.asia, rec.travel.europe,rec.travel.air, rec.travel.cruises, soc.culture.african, soc.culture.south-africa, soc.culture.egyptian, soc.culture.misc, soc.culture.nigeria, soc.culture.sierra-leone, soc.culture.zimbabwe, soc.culture.malagasy, soc.culture.somalia, za.misc From jpatokal@alpha.hut.fi Wed Nov 1 17:31:54 1995 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: Jani Patokallio Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,rec.travel.misc,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.south-africa,soc.culture.egyptian,soc.culture.zimbabwe,soc.culture.misc,soc.culture.nigeria,za.misc Subject: CFV: rec.travel.africa Followup-To: poster Date: 1 Nov 1995 22:31:50 -0000 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Lines: 124 Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Expires: 23 Nov 1995 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <12433.20356.843169@uunet.uu.net> Reply-To: voting@hut.fi NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Archive-Name: rec.travel.africa Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:7796 news.groups:172246 rec.travel.misc:22266 soc.culture.african:45463 soc.culture.south-africa:9606 soc.culture.egyptian:5806 soc.culture.zimbabwe:747 soc.culture.misc:5949 soc.culture.nigeria:7081 za.misc:2804 FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2) unmoderated group rec.travel.africa Newsgroups line: rec.travel.africa Travel on the African continent. Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 22 Nov 1995. This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. Questions about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent. Proponent: Per-Kaare Svendsen Votetaker: Jani Patokallio RATIONALE: rec.travel.africa Africa is the world's second largest continent. It hides rare and fascinating places for any traveller, no matter how big/small the budget. The African countries are now lumped in incongruously and unidentifiably [namelessly] with several other major world regions in the rec.travel.misc newsgroup. According to the charter rec.travel.misc is supposed to be the place for discussing travel related topics in countries that do not fit into the other newsgroups in the rec.travel.* hierarchy. The designation "misc" has little meaning by itself and many posters have no idea that this group is designated for the leftovers from the other newsgroups such as Africa, the Middle East, Antarctica and Oceania. In addition the group covers very useful miscellany that may affect travelers in general. The fact that a lot of the r.t.misc users do not obide by the guidelines posted regularly adds to the confusion. During the last year the numbers of misplaced postings has exceeded the appropriate postings and hence it is time-consuming and difficult to use the group for constructive dicussions due to a high "noise-ratio". As the new newsgroup rec.travel.latin-america passed and is now operating, the percent of inapropriate postings has increased. These problems can be solved by forming a separate group dealing with African travel exclusively. CHARTER: rec.travel.africa The group rec.travel.africa shall be unmoderated. Rec.travel.africa shall provide an open, easily accessible, electronic conferencing system or bulletin board for the African travel community on the Internet. Participants are welcome and encouraged to browse, read, post, and use this newsgroup as an information server, discussion area and electronic conferencing system to its maximum advantage. Being an unmoderated newsgroup, no one will own or run this newsgroup. Participants should use this discussion forum with enthusiasm and realism. Courtesy is greatly appreciated. Rec.travel.africa shall be open for discussion about all facets of travel on the continent. Primarily topics like how-to-get there, how-to-get-around, accomodation, wildlife, and other travel related issues are the aim of this group. Even though the main topic and dominant subject feature is travel, discussion may also include topics such as culture, archaeology, architecture, ethnology, photography, history, geology, politics, diving, mountain climbing, arts, music, cuisine, ecology, ornithology, etc,. Discussion concerning a topic that is the object of another newsgroup is kindly requested to be posted in the appropriate group. This means that topics concerning modes of travel and marketing etc should be posted in the appropriate groups. This newsgroup allows travelers to help other travelers - much like we do on the road. Personal experiences and travel strories are much welcome - even without a preceding question. This is not a forum for advertising and commercial interests and such posts will not be welcome. There is nothing wrong with commerce and advertising, this just isn't the place for it. If you have a product or a tour, please post your message in rec.travel.marketplace or other locations. The general "netiquette" FAQs posted in news.announce.newusers and news.answers apply to rec.travel.africa. Excessive flaming is discourraged. END CHARTER. HOW TO VOTE: You should send E-MAIL (posts to a newsgroup are invalid) to: voting@hut.fi 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 rec.travel.africa I vote NO on rec.travel.africa You may also vote ABSTAIN or CANCEL but these are not counted as valid votes for the total count. If your mail software does not indicate your real name, please also include the following statement and add your name (on the same line). Voter name: IMPORTANT VOTING PROCEDURE NOTES: 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. From jpatokal@alpha.hut.fi Tue Nov 14 03:21:20 1995 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: Jani Patokallio Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,rec.travel.misc,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.south-africa,soc.culture.egyptian,soc.culture.zimbabwe,soc.culture.misc,soc.culture.nigeria,za.misc Subject: 2nd CFV: rec.travel.africa Supersedes: <12433.20356.843169@uunet.uu.net> Followup-To: poster Date: 14 Nov 1995 08:21:11 -0000 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Lines: 131 Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Expires: 23 Nov 1995 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <816337269.19647@uunet.uu.net> Reply-To: voting@hut.fi NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Archive-Name: rec.travel.africa Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:7874 news.groups:173918 rec.travel.misc:22887 soc.culture.african:46005 soc.culture.south-africa:10265 soc.culture.egyptian:6184 soc.culture.zimbabwe:1054 soc.culture.misc:6032 soc.culture.nigeria:7977 za.misc:2909 LAST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2) unmoderated group rec.travel.africa Newsgroups line: rec.travel.africa Travel on the African continent. Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 22 Nov 1995. This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. Questions about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent. Proponent: Per-Kaare Svendsen Votetaker: Jani Patokallio ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE: Mail sent to the voting address between Friday, November 10th and Monday, November 13th was bounced back. The problem has been corrected; if you voted during this period and have not received an acknowledgement for your vote, please vote again. RATIONALE: rec.travel.africa Africa is the world's second largest continent. It hides rare and fascinating places for any traveller, no matter how big/small the budget. The African countries are now lumped in incongruously and unidentifiably [namelessly] with several other major world regions in the rec.travel.misc newsgroup. According to the charter rec.travel.misc is supposed to be the place for discussing travel related topics in countries that do not fit into the other newsgroups in the rec.travel.* hierarchy. The designation "misc" has little meaning by itself and many posters have no idea that this group is designated for the leftovers from the other newsgroups such as Africa, the Middle East, Antarctica and Oceania. In addition the group covers very useful miscellany that may affect travelers in general. The fact that a lot of the r.t.misc users do not obide by the guidelines posted regularly adds to the confusion. During the last year the numbers of misplaced postings has exceeded the appropriate postings and hence it is time-consuming and difficult to use the group for constructive dicussions due to a high "noise-ratio". As the new newsgroup rec.travel.latin-america passed and is now operating, the percent of inapropriate postings has increased. These problems can be solved by forming a separate group dealing with African travel exclusively. CHARTER: rec.travel.africa The group rec.travel.africa shall be unmoderated. Rec.travel.africa shall provide an open, easily accessible, electronic conferencing system or bulletin board for the African travel community on the Internet. Participants are welcome and encouraged to browse, read, post, and use this newsgroup as an information server, discussion area and electronic conferencing system to its maximum advantage. Being an unmoderated newsgroup, no one will own or run this newsgroup. Participants should use this discussion forum with enthusiasm and realism. Courtesy is greatly appreciated. Rec.travel.africa shall be open for discussion about all facets of travel on the continent. Primarily topics like how-to-get there, how-to-get-around, accomodation, wildlife, and other travel related issues are the aim of this group. Even though the main topic and dominant subject feature is travel, discussion may also include topics such as culture, archaeology, architecture, ethnology, photography, history, geology, politics, diving, mountain climbing, arts, music, cuisine, ecology, ornithology, etc,. Discussion concerning a topic that is the object of another newsgroup is kindly requested to be posted in the appropriate group. This means that topics concerning modes of travel and marketing etc should be posted in the appropriate groups. This newsgroup allows travelers to help other travelers - much like we do on the road. Personal experiences and travel strories are much welcome - even without a preceding question. This is not a forum for advertising and commercial interests and such posts will not be welcome. There is nothing wrong with commerce and advertising, this just isn't the place for it. If you have a product or a tour, please post your message in rec.travel.marketplace or other locations. The general "netiquette" FAQs posted in news.announce.newusers and news.answers apply to rec.travel.africa. Excessive flaming is discourraged. END CHARTER. HOW TO VOTE: You should send E-MAIL (posts to a newsgroup are invalid) to: voting@hut.fi 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 rec.travel.africa I vote NO on rec.travel.africa You may also vote ABSTAIN or CANCEL but these are not counted as valid votes for the total count. If your mail software does not indicate your real name, please also include the following statement and add your name (on the same line). Voter name: IMPORTANT VOTING PROCEDURE NOTES: 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. From jpatokal@alpha.hut.fi Thu Nov 23 09:11:30 1995 Path: uunet!bounce-back From: Jani Patokallio Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,rec.travel.misc,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.south-africa,soc.culture.egyptian,soc.culture.zimbabwe,soc.culture.misc,soc.culture.nigeria,za.misc Subject: RESULT: rec.travel.africa passes 153:18 Supersedes: <12433.20356.843169@uunet.uu.net> Followup-To: news.groups Date: 23 Nov 1995 09:11:27 -0500 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Lines: 284 Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net Approved: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <817135885.21923@uunet.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Archive-Name: rec.travel.africa Xref: uunet news.announce.newgroups:7918 news.groups:175687 rec.travel.misc:23368 soc.culture.african:46446 soc.culture.south-africa:10562 soc.culture.egyptian:6390 soc.culture.zimbabwe:1177 soc.culture.misc:6075 soc.culture.nigeria:8495 za.misc:2961 RESULT unmoderated group rec.travel.africa passes 153:18 There were 153 YES votes and 18 NO votes, for a total of 171 valid votes. There were 3 abstains and 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. If no serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the moderator of news.announce.newgroups will create the group shortly thereafter. Newsgroups line: rec.travel.africa Travel on the African continent. The voting period closed at 23:59:59 UTC, 22 Nov 1995. This vote was conducted by a neutral third party. Questions about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent. Proponent: Per-Kaare Svendsen Votetaker: Jani Patokallio RATIONALE: Africa is the world's second largest continent. It hides rare and fascinating places for any traveller, no matter how big/small the budget. The African countries are now lumped in incongruously and unidentifiably [namelessly] with several other major world regions in the rec.travel.misc newsgroup. According to the charter rec.travel.misc is supposed to be the place for discussing travel related topics in countries that do not fit into the other newsgroups in the rec.travel.* hierarchy. The designation "misc" has little meaning by itself and many posters have no idea that this group is designated for the leftovers from the other newsgroups such as Africa, the Middle East, Antarctica and Oceania. In addition the group covers very useful miscellany that may affect travelers in general. The fact that a lot of the r.t.misc users do not obide by the guidelines posted regularly adds to the confusion. During the last year the numbers of misplaced postings has exceeded the appropriate postings and hence it is time-consuming and difficult to use the group for constructive dicussions due to a high "noise-ratio". As the new newsgroup rec.travel.latin-america passed and is now operating, the percent of inapropriate postings has increased. These problems can be solved by forming a separate group dealing with African travel exclusively. CHARTER: rec.travel.africa The group rec.travel.africa shall be unmoderated. Rec.travel.africa shall provide an open, easily accessible, electronic conferencing system or bulletin board for the African travel community on the Internet. Participants are welcome and encouraged to browse, read, post, and use this newsgroup as an information server, discussion area and electronic conferencing system to its maximum advantage. Being an unmoderated newsgroup, no one will own or run this newsgroup. Participants should use this discussion forum with enthusiasm and realism. Courtesy is greatly appreciated. Rec.travel.africa shall be open for discussion about all facets of travel on the continent. Primarily topics like how-to-get there, how-to-get-around, accomodation, wildlife, and other travel related issues are the aim of this group. Even though the main topic and dominant subject feature is travel, discussion may also include topics such as culture, archaeology, architecture, ethnology, photography, history, geology, politics, diving, mountain climbing, arts, music, cuisine, ecology, ornithology, etc,. Discussion concerning a topic that is the object of another newsgroup is kindly requested to be posted in the appropriate group. This means that topics concerning modes of travel and marketing etc should be posted in the appropriate groups. This newsgroup allows travelers to help other travelers - much like we do on the road. Personal experiences and travel strories are much welcome - even without a preceding question. This is not a forum for advertising and commercial interests and such posts will not be welcome. There is nothing wrong with commerce and advertising, this just isn't the place for it. If you have a product or a tour, please post your message in rec.travel.marketplace or other locations. The general "netiquette" FAQs posted in news.announce.newusers and news.answers apply to rec.travel.africa. Excessive flaming is discourraged. END CHARTER. rec.travel.africa Final Vote Ack Voted Yes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 151643@pc-lab.fbk.eur.nl Robinson, Richard 9418156.ekn2.pcms@puknet.puk.ac.za Carel vd Wath A.Honeybun@cowan.edu.au Alastair Honeybun A.J.Smith@reading.ac.uk Andrew Smith A48462@bfnnfs01.eskom.co.za GAWIE VAN BLERK Adrian@santra.hut.fi Adrian Lawrie ae446@freenet.carleton.ca Nigel Allen akoroma@mailbox.syr.edu Alpha Koroma anagnos@athena.compulink.gr Costas Anagnostopoulos andrsnd@ix.netcom.com Daniel R. Anderson aruff@loki.stanford.edu Arthur Ruff a_anders@MAILHOST.NET Anders Andersen a_grieve@blactoft.demon.co.uk Andrew Grieve BANDELE@delphi.com barro@cougar.vut.EDU.AU Rodney Bartlett. bb@wjh.harvard.edu Brent Byer belane@ERE.UMontreal.CA Belanger Eric bentore@acad.winthrop.edu ELI BENTOR bkmoore@cnw.com Kathleen Moore bwallet@osf1.gmu.edu Skat CAIRNSWM@mwp.eskom.co.za William Cairns castaway@freenet.calgary.ab.ca The Castaway Traveller cbelisle@bozo.saglac.qc.ca Christian Belisle cbstone@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Christopher B. Stone cesarini@erix.ericsson.se Francesco Cesarini CHTC56A@prodigy.com Mary Bothwell Clive_Alexander@telkom06.telkom.co.za Clive Alexander CLOAR@cgsadmpc.cgs.edu Chris Loar cpritter@netcom.com pete ritter CSASZAR@cstaff.sunyerie.edu Maria Csaszar dathayer@ix.netcom.com Dean Thayer david.hedges@ukonline.co.uk Dave Hedges deanlarr@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca Dean Larrington deirdre@rhi.hi.is Deirdre Gibbons dirk@pinnacle.co.nz Dirk Heinsius dlyall@cruzio67.cruzio.com J. David Lyall dmills@dpi.tas.gov.au David Mills donkiely@bravo.imagi.net Don Kiely DRUDINGS@delphi.com Susan Druding dunnan@cig.mot.com Andrea Dunn Edelman@aol.com ednewton@ix.netcom.com Edward Newton estaus@mm.com Evelyn Staus etlplry@etlxdmx.ericsson.se Paul Ridley f699@REX.RE.uokhsc.edu Janette Wallis FBotha1@aol.com fiw.rwth-aachen.de@santra.hut.fi Felicitas Pohl forbes@icis.on.ca Forbes Benning froots@cityscape.co.uk Ian Anderson G.Matthews@mailbox.sz Graham E Matthews gareth@servelan.co.uk Gareth Richards gauteho@ifi.uio.no =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gaute_Hongr=F8?= gbga66@udcf.gla.ac.uk Angela Gawthrop geca@ix.netcom.com Alicia Edwards gerber@law.unp.ac.za Roland Gerber gottfrhe@chert.CS.ORST.EDU Herky Gottfried greg@fc.co.za Greg Murrell gubleiss@uxmail.ust.hk Bernd Leiss hallsj@netcom.com Sandra Hall hd795@cleveland.freenet.edu fafifoernik Heikki.Kokkinen@research.nokia.com Heikki Kokkinen hennievn@iafrica.com Hennie van Niekerk hincklcp@acasun.eckerd.edu Curtis P. Hinckley Honduras1@aol.com Brad Martin htsft@lif.de Natalie Seifert IDEM@sask.usask.ca Idem R. ISHORT@pcm.co.za Irvine Short isis@netcom.com Mike Cohen jcm@emi.net Jennifer C. Markey jcook@Fox.NSTN.Ca Joanne Cook jlm@HK.Super.NET Jenn Magarity jmcgarry@uoguelph.ca James McGarry johann@osi.co.za Johann W. Fourie jonboy@io.org Trevor Tymchuk jpaquet@iafrica.com Jean Paquet k-czukas@nwu.edu Katherine M Czukas karl-johan.teroey@euronetis.no Karl-Johan Teroey Karl.Tombre@loria.fr Karl Tombre kassim@conn.me.QueensU.CA Kassim A. Abdullah kennedy@seafloor.com Thomas R Kennedy kerry@dstc.edu.au Kerry Raymond kifaru@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu Christopher M. Johnson ladyment@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Lynda Dyment list-votes@dream.hb.north.de Martin Schr"oder lizcamps@pipeline.com Liz Camps magne.salveson@jus.uio.no Magne Salveson mail08863@pop.net Jerold Paulson mark@odyssey.bei.net Matti@mattis.tng.oche.de Matti Haack matunda@csd.uwo.ca Matunda Nyanchama merchant@anuxv.att.com s.merchant mike@myates.demon.co.uk Mike Yates mikem@globaladventures.com Mike McPike mlynek@chem.wisc.edu monteagu@rohan.sdsu.edu monteagudo mswigart@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us Michael Swigart mwallach@mobius.net Mike Wallach mwdaniel@uiuc.edu Michael W. Daniels ng@tesla.mbi.ucla.edu Ng ngazidja@jolt.mpx.com.au Iain Walker nhoffm@in-kiel.de Norbert Hoffmann nicki@halcyon.com Nicole Stellner OGUOCHA@sask.usask.ca Oguocha olav@viking.mv.com Olav Nieuwejaar oosievdb@cis.co.za Johann van den Berg oreng@netmanage.co.il Oren Golan p.k.svendsen@jus.uio.no Per-Kaare Svendsen P.VOLLMAR@LINK-GOE.zerberus.de Peter Vollmar Paul_Green@vos.stratus.com Paul A. Green paustin@astro.ocis.temple.edu Pam Austin pcr@ic.net phil reed peders@ifi.uio.no =?iso-8859-1?Q?Peder_Morten_S=F8dem?= penny@step.polymtl.ca Yacouba Coulibaly peralex@aztec.co.za Tom Davies pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk James Petts ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk Philip Hazel pk@csmart.com Paul Kratz pmt5el@amsta.leeds.ac.uk E Loubea pshakesp@pcug.org.au The Bard q9421931@zeus.usq.edu.au katrina dejersey regis@nqueeg.ico.olivetti.com Mauro Regis rfritsc@gwdg.de Ruediger Fritsch RooDunn@aol.com ROSSOWBE@CNSVAX.UWEC.EDU Brent Rossow rradxd@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us rradxd rsnac@mailbox.sz Noel Ormesher rufinus@mbe.ece.wisc.edu J. Rufinus sall@aztec.co.za Ola Sall samba@CRT.UMontreal.CA Samba Diallo sarahgs@iaccess.za Sarah Grant-Smith sasbmt@unx.sas.com Bruce Tindall schick@isa.de Andrea Schick scm@silver.wcape.school.za Stephen Marquard sfog0@frog.thpl.lib.fl.us Matthew ONeil smartika@ra.abo.fi Staffan Martikainen snabb@niksula.hut.fi Janne Snabb spada.f@inrete.it Fulvio Spada std_bagnall@hg.uleth.ca Peter Bagnall stephens@mailhost.world.net Stephen Sharpley stilwell@YorkU.CA Sean Stilwell tcopelan@sfu.ca T. Copeland todtr@ewc.bitnet Todt, Ronald tomday@rahul.net Tom Day Tor.Stenvaag@geomatic.no Tor Stenvaag tores@ifi.uio.no =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tore_Bj=F8rn_Stensrud?= tormodk@lie.mat-stat.uit.no Tormod K. Sivertsen tripp@taligent.com Dan Tripp tt@tarzan.math.jyu.fi Tapani Tarvainen Vince_Wright%Revenue@state.ak.us Vince Wright webber@physunc.phy.uc.EDU Ron Webber webberd@VNET.IBM.COM Dave Webber (tie 295-4773) winter@harlequin.com Tracy Winter ZETHU@MED.UND.AC.ZA Gwamanda Zethu Voted No ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ csaamw@urc.tue.nl Michiel Wijers dballard@ix.netcom.com Don Ballard kim@shell.portal.com Kim DeVaughn kmitchel@direct.ca Kevin Mitchell lancec@cats.ucsc.edu Lance K. Chun nbhansen@midway.uchicago.edu Nicole B. Hansen nelsonk@ix.netcom.com Ken Nelson patl@catfish.lcs.mit.edu Patrick J. LoPresti rick@bcm.tmc.edu Richard H. Miller ryang@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu Glen Patrick Ryan smarry@turing.toronto.edu Smarasderagd stainles@bga.com Dwight Brown stick@shepherd.escalade.com J. Stick techint@winternet.com Technical Intelligence-MN-USA tgm@netcom.com Thomas G. McWilliams tlawson@email.univpubs.american.edu Todd C. Lawson twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu Tim Pierce widenius@cc.helsinki.fi Risto Widenius Abstained ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ crouchkp@flidh101.delcoelect.com Kenneth P Crouch jan.coekelberghs@ping.be Jan Coekelberghs mmt@RedBrick.COM Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS Votes in error ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CKESSLER@desire.wright.edu Charles Kessler ! Conflicting votes -- Jani Patokallio