Article 5883 of news.announce.newgroups: Path: babbage.ece.uc.edu!news.gryffin.com!infoserv.illinois.net!news.jmls.edu!premier3.premier.net!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!bounce-back From: handler@sub-rosa.com (Michael Handler) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.indian.info,soc.religion.eastern,soc.culture.indian.telugu,soc.culture.indian.kerala,soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.nepal,soc.culture.punjab,alt.hindu,rec.music.indian.classical,rec.music.indian.misc,soc.culture.bengali,soc.religion.sikhism,soc.culture.punjab,soc.culture.indian.delhi,soc.culture.indian.marathi Subject: CFV: soc.religion.hindu moderated Followup-To: poster Date: 12 Jul 1995 23:27:42 -0000 Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers Lines: 120 Sender: tale@uunet.uu.net Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net Expires: 3 Aug 1995 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: Reply-To: hindu-vote@sub-rosa.com NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net Xref: babbage.ece.uc.edu news.announce.newgroups:5883 news.groups:127577 soc.culture.indian:203671 soc.culture.indian.info:643 soc.religion.eastern:9295 soc.culture.indian.telugu:25043 soc.culture.indian.kerala:4738 soc.culture.tamil:39635 soc.culture.nepal:7444 soc.culture.punjab:13193 alt.hindu:3346 rec.music.indian.classical:13102 rec.music.indian.misc:29029 soc.culture.bengali:8686 soc.religion.sikhism:381 soc.culture.indian.delhi:1043 soc.culture.indian.marathi:5335 FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2) moderated group soc.religion.hindu Newsgroups line: soc.religion.hindu Discussion about the Hindu dharma, philosophy, culture. Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 2 Aug 1995. This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. For voting questions only contact Michael Handler . For questions about the proposed group contact Ajay Shah . RATIONALE Currently, the only other forum for promoting such a ideals is called the alt.hindu, however, there is overwhelming interest in having a group in the soc.religion hirarchy, since alt.* group distribution is quite limited. CHARTER Hindu dharma (religious philosophy and way of life) is followed by over 650 million people in the world. Prominent among its teaching are the acceptance of various religious paths, and the sprit of universal family. Although there is soc.religion.eastern, soc.religion.hindu will be different. It will be the forum to discuss various Hindu docterines as they are applicable to day to day living. Unlike soc.religion.eastern, it will also be used as a forum to discuss various issues that affect Hindus living around the world. These issues include, environmental awareness from the Hindu perspective, war and peace, human rights and participlation of Hindus in political process to promote the universal ideals mentioned above. It will also be used as a forum for cultural news about Hindus from around the world. This forum will also be different from soc.culture.indian (sci) because, sci is more concerned with the issues affecting India, whereas soc.culture.hindu will be of interest to the people from around the world who are eager to learn about the Hindu dharma (religious philosophy + way of life) and culture. DISTRIBUTION This Call For Votes (CFV) has been crossposted to the following newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, soc.culture.indian, soc.culture.indian.info, soc.religion.eastern, soc.culture.indian.telugu, soc.culture.indian.kerala, soc.culture.tamil, soc.culture.nepal, soc.culture.punjab, alt.hindu, rec.music.indian.classical, rec.music.indian.misc, soc.culture.bengali, soc.religion.sikhism, soc.culture.punjab, soc.culture.indian.delhi, soc.culture.indian.marathi HOW TO VOTE One vote counted per person, no more than one per account. Attempts at ballot box stuffing or vote fraud will not be treated lightly. ************************************************************************** *** IMPORTANT: Email addresses, names, and votes of all voters will be *** *** published in the final voting results list. UVV voting is not done *** *** by secret ballot. If you don't like this policy, don't vote. *** ************************************************************************** Send email to: Just replying should work if you are not reading this on a mailing list. Your mail message should contain ONE (and only ONE) of the following statements: I vote YES on soc.religion.hindu I vote NO on soc.religion.hindu I vote ABSTAIN on soc.religion.hindu I CANCEL my vote on soc.religion.hindu If you vote ABSTAIN, your vote will be registered and will be shown in the final results posting, but it will not affect the outcome of the vote. It is intended as a form of symbolic protest, nothing more. If you CANCEL your vote, all records of your vote will be purged from the active results file, and your name and address will not be listed in the final results posting. ABSTAIN and CANCEL are nearly the same thing -- the only difference is, with ABSTAIN, your name and address are still listed in the final listing. If you later change your mind you may vote again. Only your last valid vote will count and will be published in the final results posting. Anything else may be rejected by the automatic vote counting program. The votetaker will respond to your received ballots with a personal acknowledgement by mail -- if you do not receive one within several days, try again. It's your responsibility to make sure your vote is registered correctly. After the final results are posted to , there will then be a five-day period during which the published vote list may be corrected and any irregularities addressed. OFFICIAL SOURCES OF THE CFV The only official sources of this CFV are: * The copy which was crossposted to * Any copies which were sent to mailing lists by the votetaker (and *only* the votetaker) * One received from the votetaker's automated mailserver To obtain a copy of the CFV from the votetaker's mailserver, send an email message to . This is an automated function -- the content of your message will be discarded. IMPORTANT: If you give anyone copies of the CFV, the copies must be whole and unmodified. Distributing pre-filled in ballots or modified copies of this CFV is considered voting fraud. If this occurs on a large scale or causes voting problems or irregularities, the vote may be canceled. When in doubt, ask the votetaker. -- Michael Handler Usenet Volunteer Votetakers (UVV) Usenet Volunteer Votetakers WWW page: