From harelb Sun May 12 01:07:30 1991
Date: Tue, 7 May 91 15:30:48 -0400
From: harelb (Harel Barzilai)
To: Activ-L@Umcvmb.Bitnet, harelb
Subject: IMPORTANT NOTE re: RENAME VOTE


As you may know, there is currently in progress a vote for re-naming
(really, naming) "misc.activism.general"

Under this approval-voting system, people send in a list of names
(from the list or "write-ins") which they find acceptable, leaving out
names they do not find acceptable.

I made some comments/suggestion previously about naming, but I have to
modify those comments to due to new information.

It turns out that PeaceNet only takes the first 14 characters of a
newsgroup's names. Hence their terse "pn.*" for example.

I had previously expressed support for "misc.progressive.*" but that
would not be workable. I suggest now "misc.peace.*" (e.g.
"misc.peace.gen") ; another suggestion, which someone emailed to me is
"ecopax" rather than "activism"/"progressive"/"peace."

I'm sorry for Yet Another note about voting (at least in this case
it's within the same vote, not all over again) but I simply did not
know about these PeaceNet conventions (and yes, they wouldn't be
unable to carry the groups but simply re-name it themselves, to
misc.prog.gen rather than misc.progressive.general; e.g. PeaceNet
carried talk.pol.general [sic], but I thought it would be best if we
pick our own name to be carreied on PeaceNet and that changes wouldn't
need to be made there later)

My other cautions still hold, especially not isolating ourselves in an
"org" which could be kicked of as an entire hierarchy by sysadmins who
don't believe in "ecopax" personally.

I also urge people to take this vote seriously and *participate* --
besides the posts on the Net urging we be "banished" into our own
hierarchy like "org" where we could be marginalized (in terms of
distribution, in particular), just recently there was another public
urging to stick-it-to-us in this name, urging

	"[calling it] left.* ... as a sign of our disgust"


Thanks


	Harel

As a reminder, 
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VOTES ARE TO BE SENT TO:

(1) peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
and
(2) mathrich@umcvmb.bitnet (Rich Winkel)

and must be received at both addresses to be valid.  Both addresses
appear in the Reply-To: line.  At the conclusion of the voting period,
any possible discrepancies will result in attempted resolution by
contacting the voter(s) in question rather than immediate discounting of
the vote.

All votes must be received by 23:59 UTC (GMT), 12 May 1991.
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