On 26/11/14 17:31, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
The 1st CFV has been published in uk.net.news.config and ballots are being
issued to those interested. If you'd like to cast your vote, please send a
ballot request to and a ballot will be issued
straight to you. The ballot has the full proposal and all details for the
group included, so you don't need to even go to the config group if you
don't want to!
Stephen, you forgot to add .space, .policy, and .dx to the
rec.radio.amateur.* groups in your canvass for support outside of the UK
for the proposed UK group, and free.uk.amateur-radio is also missing
from your list.
It might be worth pointing out for those that don't follow the UK Usenet
management groups that we have a rule for group creation that requires
that the YES votes exceed the NO votes by 12 (that is, is is not a
simple majority) the intention being to avoid creating groups that do
not have enough active posters to make it a success. So it might be
polite if those that wish to support this proposal by voting for it also
undertake the implicit duty of contributing to it, otherwise it runs the
danger of sharing the fate of rec.radio.amateur.moderated, with its
overwhelming number of blogs and newsletters, and less than 1 post per
day from individuals.
A fair summation of the position would say that at present there don't
appear to be enough potential YES votes within the UK community, and so
this second attempt to create the group may also founder without
external support.
Many of you will be familiar with uk.radio.amateur and the unpleasant
environment that persists there after years and years of abusive behaviour.
Indeed, some of that abuse routinely spills over into rec.radio.*. The
moderated group is intended to provide a refuge from such behaviour where
civilised and decent discussion of amateur radio can take root without fear
of being derailed. I hope to see many of you there!
I would encourage anyone wishing to support this proposal to skim
through the last 12 months postings on ukra.
--
Spike
"Hard cases, it has frequently been observed, are apt to introduce bad
law". Judge Rolfe