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CALL FOR VOTES
Creation of Unmoderated newsgroup aus.food

This is a formal Call For Votes (CFV) for the creation of a new
Australian unmoderated newsgroup aus.food. Please see below for voting
instructions.

Newsgroups line:
aus.food Australian food: its cooking and consumption!

Votes must be received by Monday September 19 2005 18:59:59 -0500.

For this vote to pass, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all
valid (YES and NO) votes. There must also be at least 20 more
YES votes than NO votes.

This vote is being conducted by ausadmin. For voting questions contact
. For questions about the proposed group
contact Leanne Bertram .

RATIONALE:

The creation of a new aus newsgroup called aus.food would be for
the discussion of all things to do with food. Buying, cooking,
storing, and the best bit, eating!

There is currently no aus.* newsgroup that covers these topics.
Other newsgroups that discuss food are completly oriented towards
every other country except Australia.

My opinion is that this group would become very popular, simply
because everyone loves food, whether preparing it, or eating it!
I feel that this group would be excellent for those just starting
out in the kitchen, and feel that the recipes that I have to share,
along with others that I, and others, could learn, would make this
a popular group. Also, the name "aus.food" leaves further room for
expansion, if required, at a later date.

Some advantages of the proposed group would be:

* A place to discuss food and cooking of all varieties in Australia,
ie: bush tucker, BBQs, cuisine, pizza, soup, bakeries, anything to
do with food!

* A place to talk about food/drinking experiences, restaurants,
recipes - anything food-related.

* Not limited to Australians, but it's nice to have a local hangout,
with local recommendations, reviews, tips and ideas.

END RATIONALE.

CHARTER: aus.food

aus.food is for the discussion of food, its preparation, and its
consumption in Australia. Examples of on-topic posts include:

- food recipes
- preparation
- storage
- drinks with meals
- restaurant reports and recommendations (good or bad!)

Off-topic posts, such as the following subjects, are discouraged:

- discussion about television cooking shows (more relevant to aus.tv)
- recipes designed to make people ill!

What is not acceptable:

- HTML posting
- Binaries (post a URL instead)
- Crossposting to more than 3 other newsgroups
- Commercial advertisements, unless prefixed with [COMM]
- For sale advertisements, unless prefixed with [FS]
- Auction advertisements, unless prefixed with [FA]
- Flaming and ad-hominem attacks
- Spam and chain letters

END CHARTER.

PROPOSER: Leanne Bertram

HOW TO VOTE:

To vote, you must send an email message to:
The subject of your email message is not important.

Your mail message must contain only one of the following statements:
I vote YES on aus.example.name
I vote NO on aus.example.name

You must replace aus.example.name with the name of the newsgroup
that you are voting on.

Anything else may be rejected by the automatic vote counting program.

The ausadmin system will respond to your received message with a
personal acknowledgement by E-mail so you must send from your real
email address, not a spam-block address. If you do not receive an
acknowledgement within 24 hours, try again. It is your responsibility
to make sure your vote is registered correctly.

Only one vote per person, no more than one vote per E-mail address.
Votes from invalid or unreachable email addresses may be rejected.
Multiple voting attempts will be ignored. E-mail addresses of all voters
will be published in munged form in the final voting results list.

Ausadmin will attempt to keep actual voting directions (YES or NO)
confidential, however the vote emails themselves received by ausadmin
will be considered non-confidential and their contents may be published
in full at ausadmin's discretion (e.g. in suspected multi-voting).


[ Check the PGP signature of this post using ausadmin's key online at
http://aus.news-admin.org/ausadmin.asc --nick ]


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