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Evan Leibovitch (evan@telly.on.ca) wrote:
: Through sheer coincidence, Ed Hew and I have submitted Call For Votes
: (CFV) proposals, regarding reorganization of the SCO and UnixWare
: newsgroups respectively, within about 24 hours of each other.

: The official CFV postings will be made in news.announce.newgroups,
: these groups and elsewhere, fairly shortly. If successful, the
: votes will result in the creation of two new Usenet hierarchies,
: comp.unix.sco.* and comp.unix.unixware.* to replace the newsgroups
: in which you are reading this message.

: In the spirit of co-operation, I ask those of you using either SCO or
: UnixWare to watch for these proposals, and to support both. I have
: recently exchanged e-mail with Ed; he shares the same view, and is
: aware of (and supports) my posting this message.

: Thank you for your support.

I know "they" don't want this, but could you crosspost the CFV when
it appears?

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Martin Sohnius wrote:

> Evan Leibovitch (evan@telly.on.ca) wrote:
> : Through sheer coincidence, Ed Hew and I have submitted Call For Votes
> : (CFV) proposals, regarding reorganization of the SCO and UnixWare
> : newsgroups respectively, within about 24 hours of each other.
> 
> : The official CFV postings will be made in news.announce.newgroups,
> : these groups and elsewhere, fairly shortly. If successful, the
> : votes will result in the creation of two new Usenet hierarchies,
> : comp.unix.sco.* and comp.unix.unixware.* to replace the newsgroups
> : in which you are reading this message.
> 
> : In the spirit of co-operation, I ask those of you using either SCO or
> : UnixWare to watch for these proposals, and to support both. I have
> : recently exchanged e-mail with Ed; he shares the same view, and is
> : aware of (and supports) my posting this message.
> 
> : Thank you for your support.
> 
> I know "they" don't want this, but could you crosspost the CFV when
> it appears?

My "yes" votes on both proposals have been waiting just as impatiently
as yours; apparently the Usenet Vote Volunteers group is quite backed
up.  When the official CFVs appear, I believe we should cross-post
pointers to them (giving their respective Message-IDs), but not the
bodies.  The appearance of propriety is crucial in Usenet voting; if The
Guidelines say not to do something, don't do it, for fear of
jeopardizing the whole effort.

Both proposals should pass easily on their own merits.

On the other hand, if we *can* do things within official guidelines, why
not?  I'm sending this directly the Evan & Ed with the suggestion: since
neither CFV has been posted yet, why not ask the UVV folks to amend both
distributions?  It can't hurt to ask.

(Remember when the new groups were going to be a "Christmas present"?
We should have asked ourselves, "what year?" ;-)

>Bela<