A0 Introduction: History of soc.culture.new-zealand
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This article is from the New Zealand FAQ, by Phil Stuart-Jones and Lin Nah with numerous contributions by others.
A0 Introduction: History of soc.culture.new-zealand
The following gives some of the history of the creation of s.c.n-z. The
rest of the details, including the list of voters, has been removed but
should be at an archive site somewhere before long...
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Keywords: New Zealand, Kiwi
Sender: tale@cs.rpi.edu
From: gcwillia@daisy.waterloo.edu (Graeme Williams)
Date: 25 Feb 91 04:41:44 GMT
[ I have the rest of the header if it'd be useful to anyone ]
Z*******Z******* CFD: A New Zealand culture group *******Z*******Z
This is a call for a discussion regarding the creation of a new
newsgroup devoted to "New Zealand culture". Here is what I propose:
NAME: This will need to be decided on, several suggestions are:
soc.culture.newzealand
soc.culture.aoteoroa
soc.culture.kiwi
soc.culture.nz
MODERATION STATUS: The group would be unmoderated.
CHARTER:
The group will provide a forum for discussion of topics
related to New Zealand. In particular such things as:
News, politics, Maori and Pacific Island culture, music, sport,
events, films, telly, jobs, farming, the enviroment, economics,
tourism, places to see, trade, education, bungy jumping, pavlovas,
the Goodnight Kiwi and Wal and the dog in Footrot Flats.
In short anything and everything Kiwi, or related to NZ.
Contributions and queries from people other than New Zealanders
will also be most welcome.
COMMENTS:
I have had rather a lot of positive feedback via email regarding
the creation of this group, some very enthusiastic. What I would
like to see now is some discussion on the net amongst the various
people interested. In particular we will need to decide on a name
for the group.
I have set the Followup-to: field to news.groups so all discussion
regarding this proposal should take place there.
So, if you're interested and don't subscribe to news.groups, SUBSCRIBE
to it NOW! I want to hear publicly from all you Kiwis (and others
interested) scattered few and far between all over the globe. Shake
off the traditional Kiwi apathy cos "she'll be right" won't work
here on the net. Get those fingers typing and tell us what you think.
Cheers,
Graeme Williams - a Kiwi in Canada
gcwillia@daisy.waterloo.edu
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Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, nz.general
soc.culture.australian,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.celtic,soc.culture.misc
From: Graeme Williams <gcwillia@daisy.waterloo.edu>
Subject: CFV: soc.culture.new-zealand
Sender: tale@cs.rpi.edu
Date: 12 Mar 91 05:33:09 GMT
*************** CALL FOR VOTES: soc.culture.new-zealand ***************
This is the first call for votes for creation of the newsgroup
soc.culture.new-zealand.
Please read all of this article carefully before you send your vote.
The proposed group is as follows:
NAME: soc.culture.new-zealand
MODERATION STATUS: Unmoderated
CHARTER:
The group will provide a forum for discussion of topics
related to New Zealand. In particular such things as:
News, politics, Maori and Pacific Island culture, music, sport,
events, films, telly, jobs, farming, the enviroment, economics,
tourism, places to see, trade, education, bungy jumping, pavlovas,
the Goodnight Kiwi and Wal and the Dog in Footrot Flats.
In short anything and everything Kiwi.
Contributions and queries from people other than New Zealanders
will also be most welcome.
VOTING PROCEDURE:
Send mail to me at: gcwillia@daisy.waterloo.edu
Preferably your message should include one of the following lines:
I vote: YES soc.culture.new-zealand
I vote: NO soc.culture.new-zealand
I will accept other wording providing your vote is clear and
unambiguous and is for the group as proposed. Votes for or against
the group, but with a different name (Note: The name is hyphenated),
will not be counted.
The voting period will begin when this article appears and end at
12pm EST on Wednesday 10th April. In order for your vote to count
I must receive it during this period.
COMMENTS:
The guidelines for successful creation of a new newsgroup require
that the votetaker receive 100 more YES votes than NO votes, and that
the YES votes be at least 2/3 of all valid votes cast.
I will endeavour to post a mass acknowledgement of votes at least
once during the voting period.
Cheers,
Graeme Williams
gcwillia@daisy.waterloo.edu
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Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, nz.general
soc.culture.australian,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.celtic,soc.culture.misc
From: Graeme Williams <gcwillia@daisy.waterloo.edu>
Subject: RESULT: soc.culture.new-zealand passes 217: 27
Sender: tale@cs.rpi.edu
Date: 16 Apr 91 06:24:59 GMT
The voting period for soc.culture.new-zealand closed at the end of
Wed. 10th April.
244 valid votes were cast, 217 in favour and 27 against.
Votes in favour exceed those against by over 100 and also comprise more
than 2/3 of votes cast, so soc.culture.new-zealand passes.
Thanks to all the people who voted. Votes in favour of this group
originated from all over. In particular though considerable support
came from Australia (from both genuine Aussies and ex-pat Kiwis), England
and Finland.
Valid votes were received from the following:
[ moved to Section D2 ]
That's it. Any comments or contributions to this introduction would be
appreciated.
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