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In article <1u3p6h$8gl@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, surendar@cs.wpi.edu (Surendar Chandra) writes:
> Hi,
>  I was proposing to start a gateway between t-assist and
>  soc.college.teaching-asst. There has been no concerns from bit.admin,
>  and soc.college.teaching-asst. However in t-assist the opinion seems
>  to be divided with 3 people suggesting they want a gateway and 7
>  suggesting they would abstain from this move. The guidelines state
>  that I should now conduct a vote similar to the creation of a new
>  newsgroup.
Which guildelines are these? You are simply proposing to add a gateway to
an existing news group on the USENET side. As far as USENET is concerned,
since you did ask and got no objection from the USENET side, it has the 
same effect as adding another site which participates in USENET. The USENET
vote is only to add a news group to USENET, adding gateways to existing
groups is outside of our guidelines. 


> 
>  Does that mean I have to go through a month of CFV's and all that?
>  Would I need 2/3 and 100 vote difference? Who can take part in this
>  vote?  Only members of t-assist? Do I have to verify if the voters are
>  t-assist'ers?


From the USENET guidelines, no. The group already exists 

> 
>  Is the normal recourse in such a situation to drop this idea??  How
>  would I go about doing that??

You only got three objections from the mailing list side?; I don't see
the need for a vote (but I don't know the protocol from your side; someone
else needs to advise you) In any case, you should not have to use the USENET
model for group creation to establish the gateway.
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