Taken from news:uk.comp.misc; header trimmed; list of voters removed; PGP removed. JRS, 1998/05/15. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: SJFBeckwith Newsgroups: uk.net.news.config,uk.net.news.announce,uk.comp.misc,uk.tech.misc Subject: RESULT: Creation of uk.tech.y2k PASSES Date: 14 May 1998 21:20:29 +0100 Approved: Richard Letts Message-ID: RESULT: Creation of uk.tech.y2k PASSES ________________________________________________________________________ Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST, 10th May 1998. Proponent: tone@antb.demon.co.uk (Tone) Votetaker: sjfb@steves.org.uk (SJFBeckwith) ________________________________________________________________________ Distribution: uk.net.news.announce, uk.net.news.config, uk.comp.misc, uk.tech.misc ________________________________________________________________________ The Results: Create the group as uk.tech.y2k = 79 Create the group as uk.tech.year-2000 = 51 Status Quo (No Group) = 7 As the y2k option passes the +12 against the Status Quo and had over half the valid votes it wins. The group uk.tech.y2k should be created as detailed in the charter below. ________________________________________________________________________ Rationale: The newsgroup c.s.y2k is now dominated by U.S. politics, salaries, and survivalism; and is therefore insufficiently useful to the U.K. technical community. There should be a new newsgroup for UK-related posters to discuss relevant technical Y2k matters. The introduction of the Euro affects Y2k programming and introduces related problems. ________________________________________________________________________ The Charter: Group for the UK-centric discussion of all aspects and possible solutions of the Year 2000 problem, especially in relation to Computers and all electronic/electrical equipment utilising date related ic's. The group will permit discussion of the euro/EMU where it affects/interfaces with Y2K work as well as also handling discussion on programming for the introduction of the Eurocurrency. No advertising allowed, Off topic subjects to include job announcements Binary postings are expressly forbidden. All postings to be in plain text. Other material - such as word processor or HTML formats, binaries, executable and/or zipped files, etc. - may be cited and placed on Web or FTP sites. The newsgroup will not be moderated, however, off topic postings including unwelcome ads, will be warned off/reported to their postmaster/ISP. Newsgroup Line: uk.tech.y2k Discussion forum for UK oriented y2k problems The Particulars of the Vote <<<- are removed ->>> This vote was conducted by a neutral third party member of UKVoting. UKVoting is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on CFVs in the uk hierarchy. The rules under which this vote is taken are posted regularly to uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the following URL: ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/news.answers/uk/voting There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted to uk.net.news.announce. Allegations of irregularity should be sent to control@usenet.org.uk. SJFBeckwith, - -- Co-Ordinator and Votetaker, UKVoting. The UKVoting web pages can be found at http://www.cirra.com/ukvoting/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ENDS. jrs@merlyn.demon.co.uk