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From: asolovay@geoworks.com (Andrew Solovay)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.religion.islam,soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.turkish,soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: CFV: talk.religion.islam
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Date: 7 Oct 1993 09:38:00 -0400
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                      1st CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)

Unmoderated group talk.religion.islam

Newsgroups line:   
talk.religion.islam	Unmoderated newsgroup for discussions related to Islam.

Votes must be recieved by 23:59:59 GMT, 28 Oct 1993.

This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  For voting
questions only, contact the vote-taker, Andrew Solovay
.  For questions about the proposed group,
contact the group's proposer, Basalat Ali Raja
.

CHARTER

  Any article that the author feels is relevant to Islam can be posted
  to talk.religion.islam.

RATIONALE

  There exists a newsgroup to discuss the religion of Islam; it is
  called soc.religion.islam (SRI).  However, there is a lot more that
  is of interest to Muslims than fits in under this particular
  heading.  We feel that talk.religion.islam will be able to serve
  these needs, which right now is served only partially by several soc
  newsgroups.


STANDARD VOTE FORM

Please REPLY to this message via MAIL.  Ballots posted to any
newsgroup will not be counted.  You will receive an EMail
acknowledgement ("ACK") within a few days after your vote is received;
this ACK will say how your vote was counted.  All votes must be sent
to

	votes@geoworks.com

Simply "reply"ing to this CFV should work, *if* your newsreader honors
the "Reply-To" line in the article header.

All votes sent to other addresses will be discarded.

      PLEASE USE THE FORM EXACTLY AS IT APPEARS BELOW

Please do not delete anything between the "-=-=-=-=-" lines - and most
certainly do not alter the group name. Votes will be tallied by an
automatic vote-counting program and if it can't determine your vote
you will be asked to re-vote.

For each group, simply add your vote in the appropriate space on the
same line.  Recognized votes are Yes, No, For, Against, and Abstain.
Yes and For are equivalent, as are No and Against.  Capitalization is
not important.  Don't worry about spacing of the columns or any quote
characters ">" that your reply inserts.

You must provide your name. Your mail program may automatically put
your name in the mail header; if not, you must put your name on the
appropriate line in the ballot. (If you do not provide a name, you
will be asked to revote.)

If you later change your mind you may send in another vote, which will
automatically supercede all previous votes. "ABSTAIN" votes serve to
cancel previous votes.

Standard Guidelines for voting apply.  For the group to be created,
100 more YES votes than NO votes must be cast, and 2/3 of all valid
votes must be YES votes. "ABSTAIN" votes are not counted in either
calculation; their only role is to cancel previous votes.

Every vote will be acknowledged by EMail. The CFV will be repeated
once; the 2d CFV will contain a "bounce-ack", i.e. a list of people
whose ACK messages bounced when I sent them.

Each person is permitted a single vote, no matter how many accounts he
or she might have. Furthermore, each account is permitted a single
vote, no matter how many people might share that account. If more than
one vote is sent from an account, the latest valid vote will be the one
counted.


-=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

talk.religion.islam group vote Ballot    [TRI-0001]

  If your mail software does not add your name to your user ID give
  your name here (on this line):

  If you do NOT give a name, and there is no name sent with your address,
  your vote will be rejected.

Your Vote  Group
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
yes        this.is.an.example.group
no         this.is.another.example.group

           talk.religion.islam

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VOTE-TAKER NOTES:

I expect this vote to have a high turn-out. To try to avoid problems,
I will adopt a simple policy: I will use Ron Dippold's vote-counting
program "UseVote" to process and count votes. Any vote which UseVote
does not interpret as a valid vote, will be rejected. I will not enter
any votes by hand. For this reason, you must use the ballot that is
provided in the CFV.

You must provide a name with the vote. Your mail program may fill this
in (e.g. "From: jdoe@foo.org (John Doe)"). If it does not, you must
put your name on the designated line in the ballot. All ballots
without names will be rejected when first processed.

Note that a name provided in the ballot will automatically supersede
any name in the mail header. If your mailer program puts a pseudonym
in the mail header, you are strongly encouraged to put your real name
in the ballot.

All votes that are accepted will get an e-mail acknowledgement (or
"ACK"), which will say how the vote was counted (i.e. something like
"Your NO vote on talk.religion.islam was counted"). All votes which
were rejected will receive an automatically-generated explanation by
EMail. Furthermore, the 2d CFV and the "RESULTS" posting will list all
people who cast invalid votes (except when the voter has replaced his
invalid vote with a valid one).

All votes must be said to  (or the equivalent
address, ). Votes sent to other addresses will
not be processed, counted, stored, or acknowledged. This should go
without saying, but I'm saying it anyway.