RACA: No news(group) is good News?

Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2001
By: Darren Schroeder

The results of the poll are in and it appears that rec.arts.comics.alternative is to disappear...

Results:

REMOVE rec.arts.comics.alternative (renamed to rec.arts.comics.misc) passes 148:27
REMOVE rec.arts.comics.european (renamed to rec.arts.comics.misc) passes 146:22
REMOVE rec.arts.comics.other-media (renamed to rec.arts.comics.misc) passes 160:20

rec.arts.comics reorg results - 191 valid votes

Yes No | 2/3 >100 | Pass | Group
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148 27 | Yes Yes | Yes | REMOVE rec.arts.comics.alternative
146 22 | Yes Yes | Yes | REMOVE rec.arts.comics.european
160 20 | Yes Yes | Yes | REMOVE rec.arts.comics.other-media
4 invalid ballots

For a vote item to pass, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all valid (YES and NO) votes. There must also be at least 100 more YES votes than NO votes.

A five day discussion period follows this announcement. If no serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the moderator of news.announce.newgroups will create (I think they mean deleate) the groups shortly thereafter.



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