From y-pisan@nwu.edu Wed Oct  8 19:00:05 1997
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From: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>
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Subject: RFD: soc.culture.turkish.moderated moderated
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                     REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
            moderated group soc.culture.turkish.moderated

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of
a worldwide moderated Usenet newsgroup
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  This is not a Call for Votes
(CFV); you cannot vote at this time.  Procedural details are below.

All follow-up discussion should be on news.groups.  Any
discussion on other newsgroups should be crossposted to
news.groups.

Newsgroup line:
soc.culture.turkish.moderated	Turkiye/Turkey and related issues. (Moderated)

RATIONALE: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

Currently, there is a specific newsgroup on the Internet
soc.culture.turkish (SCT) which is the only discussion group for
issues relating to Turkey.  While SCT has enjoyed a large group
of participants, the quality of articles has changed in the last
couple of years:

        * Large amount of crossposting to newsgroups that are
hostile to soc.culture.turkish has created a hostile environment
in SCT (approximately 25% of articles are crossposted to more
than 3 newsgroups)

        * An increased hostility within SCT and members of other
groups which has created an increase in name calling and use of
disposable accounts to spread hatred.

        * Approximately 20% of articles have less than 1/3
original text as a result of increased hostility.

        * Almost all users who have posted to SCT have had public
insults against them which has resulted in a lot of readers to
stay quiet or leave.

        * The heavy traffic on SCT combined with people swearing
at each other makes it difficult to find the original articles.

        * Many readers have chosen to leave SCT due to increased
hostility.  soc.culture.turkish.moderated will once again offer a
civilized place of discussion and attract past users as well as
new users.

The name chosen for this group is soc.culture.turkish.moderated,
which is reflects its proposed content and its origins.  This
newsgroup is not intended to replace soc.culture.turkish.
soc.culture.turkish will remain as an unmoderated forum. Instead,
soc.culture.turkish.moderated will offer an alternative, less
hostile area for discussion.  I and the subscribers feel that a
moderated newsgroup is necessary to keep the peace and ensure
that articles make at least a good faith attempt to obey the
charter rules.

CHARTER: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

This group would encourage posting of material relating to Turkey
(Turkiye) and all issues related to Turkey.  All articles which
in some way relates to Turkey will be welcomes in the group.
Legitimate topics include but are not limited to: Turkish
language, history, politics, universities, cultural centers,
announcement of related web pages and mailing lists, places to
visit in Turkey, current and past leaders of Turkey.

Articles will be rejected if they fall into any of the categories
below:

        * Articles that are not related in any way to Turkey

        * Chain letters, pyramid schemes, mass non-Turkey related
advertisement, "Adult" type material, binary files (PGP
signatures and small binaries related to authentication are OK)

        * Articles including insults, swear words or explicit
threats to individuals or groups

        * Duplicate messages (identical postings or postings
conveying the same idea using different words)

        * Articles with less than 1/3 new material or less than 3
lines of original text.

        * Articles crossposted to more than 5 newsgroups.

        * Crossposted articles that do not have a "Followup-To:"
header indicating which newsgroup further discussion should take
place.

        * Articles crossposted to groups not related to Turkey or
the current subject (such as crossposts to alt.sex, or misc.test)

        * Ads must be clearly labeled as "[AD]" or "[REKLAM]" in
the subject line, must be related to Turkey in some way and
cannot be posted more than once every 2 months.

All articles that are related to Turkey will be welcome.  No
article will be rejected based on content or subject unless they
fall into one of the categories above.

soc.culture.turkish.moderated is bound by rules that regulate
usenet articles and soc.culture.* hierarchy.  The moderators will
make their best effort to make sure that these policies are
followed but try to maintain a free flow of information otherwise.

Moderation Policy:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Soc.culture.turkish.moderated shall make use of the STUMP
RoboModeration program developed by Igor Chudov
<ichudov@algebra.com>.  For more information on STUMP, see
<http://www.algebra.com/~ichudov/stump.html>.  In addition to
RoboModeration there will be team of human moderators.

The RoboModerator first will screen every article submitted to
soc.culture.turkish.  RoboModerator will take one of three courses
of action: reject the submission automatically, post the
submission automatically, or forward the submission to the human
moderation panel for review.

RoboModerator will always send the Charter and other relevant
information about soc.culture.turkish.moderated to first time
posters.

RoboModerator will reject the article if

        * the article is a duplicate

        * the article containes less than 1/3 new material or
less than 3 lines of original text.

        * the article is crossposted to more than 5 newsgroups or
the crossposted article does not have a "Followup-To:" header
indicating the appropriate group for discussion.

        * the article is a binary posting (except PGP signatures
and binaries less than 2K)

RoboModerator will forward the article to moderators if

        * the articles contains one of the specified keywords
such as "Make Money Fast", "Adult Pictures", "stupid asshole".
The keywords will be decided by the majority of the moderation
team.

RoboModerator will post the article if

        * the article is from an established reader of
soc.culture.turkish.moderated and does not contain any of the
specified keywords which would force the RoboModerator to forward
the article instead.

An established reader is any reader who has a track record of
posts that have been accepted to soc.culture.turkish.moderated.
A poster shall be granted established user status by a majority
vote of moderators after he/she has had an article accepted to
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  A poster will be taken off the
established reader list after 3 rejected articles or by a
majority vote of the moderators.

It is possible that a user will submit articles that will be
posted that are against the Charter of
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  These articles will be canceled
by the moderation team if the majority of the moderation team
agrees to the cancelation of the articles.

If the posting was due to the RoboModerator, the RoboModerator
program and the list of established users will be changed as
necessary.  If the acceptance was due to a moderator accepting
the article.  A voting will be done to determine if the moderator
that approved the articles should be dismissed.  If there is a
2/3 majority the moderator will be dismissed.

Forged articles or articles that get posted due to errors in the
RoboModerator will be canceled by the moderators. PGPMoose
program will be run on several different sites to ensure that
soc.culture.turkish.moderated is free of SPAM and forgeries.

Articles that are forwarded to the moderator will be accepted or
rejected in accordance with the Charter for
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  Rejected articles will always
contain the reasons for rejection.

A poster whose article is rejected can appeal the decision to the
team of moderators.  If majority of moderators agree or the
moderators are evenly split the article will be posted.

Moderators will make their best effort to create a suitable
discussion forum on soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  It is
possible that a user will flood the newsgroup with articles to
prevent discussion, submit variations of the same articles
periodically or try to prevent discussion in ways unforseen at
this time.  The moderators will use their discretion to reject
articles intended to disrupt discussion.  As with all
submissions, a majority of moderators is required to reject
articles.

In general users should follow the guidelines posted by Mark
Moraes in news.announce.newusers under the subject: Rules for
posting to Usenet (this document can also be found on the web at:
http://www.netannounce.org/news.announce.newusers/) The reason
that we have a moderated group is to keep this group focused and
to filter out the stuff that drive most people out of other
groups.  Since moderation is not in place to censure ideas, or
limit debate every effort will be made to automate the moderation
process, thus keeping the flow of ideas continuous.

Becoming a moderator:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Any user can appeal to the panel of moderators and request to be
added to the moderation team.  A new moderator will be added if
there is 2/3 majority for his/her acceptance.

Process for replacing moderators:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If a moderator does not attend to his/her moderation duties for
30 consecutive days, he/she will be assumed to have left the
moderation team.  Although moderators are free to leave any time,
it is expected that they will make a good faith effort to find a
candidate before they leave.  The candidate needs 2/3 majority to
be accepted as a moderator.

Any user can bring a complaint to the moderation panel if he/she
feels his/her articles have been rejected unfairly by submitting
5 articles which he/she believes were wrongfully rejected.  The
moderation panel will review the articles and take necessary
action.  If the rejection is due to robomoderator, the program
will be modified.  If the rejection is due to a rogue moderator
the moderation panel will vote whether the moderator should be
dismissed.  If there is 2/3 majority to dismiss the rogue
moderator, the rogue moderator will be dismissed.

If a moderator approves an article that the majority of the
moderation team agrees is against the Charter, the article in
question will be canceled.  If there is a 2/3 majority agreement
that the moderator accepted the article knowing it was against
the Charter, the moderator will be dismissed.

Accountability of Moderators:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The panel of human moderators shall maintain a log of its
activities.  This log shall be posted once every two months, thus
making the moderators accountable to the readership.  The
specific keywords that force the RoboModerator to send an article
to the moderators will also be posted at this time.

END CHARTER.

MODERATOR INFO: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

Moderator: Zafer Bozkus <bozkus@narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr>
Moderator: Hasan Baha CAYIR <hbc@turk.ch>
Moderator: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>
Moderator: Uzman <uzman@urgentmail.com>
Moderator: Huseyin Vural <hvural@narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr>

Administrative contact address: y-pisan@nwu.edu
Submission Address: sctm@bigfoot.com

END MODERATOR INFO.

PROCEDURE:

This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this
phase of the process, any potential problems with the proposed
newsgroup should be raised and resolved.

The discussion period will continue for a minimum of 21 days
(starting from when the RFD for this proposal is posted to
news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For Votes (CFV) may
be posted by a neutral vote taker if the discussion warrants
it. Please do not attempt to vote until this happens.

All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.

This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup
creation guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet
Newsgroup" and "How to Format and Submit a New Group
Proposal". Please refer to these documents (available in
news.announce.newgroups) if you have any questions about the
process.

END PROCEDURE.

DISTRIBUTION:

This RFD is being posted to the following newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
soc.culture.turkish
soc.culture.greek
soc.culture.kurdish
soc.religion.islam
soc.culture.iranian
soc.culture.arabic
soc.culture.pakistan
talk.politics.mideast

and to the following mailing lists

TRKNWS-L        Turkish news mailing list
                Send email to <trh@aimnet.com> to subscribe

ANADOLU To subscribe email to <listserv@msu.edu>
                "sub ANADOLU e-mail Name Lastname"

Additional information concerning the creation of this newsgroup
is available at:

<http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~yusuf/sctm/>

All reasonable effort has been made to make this document
accessible to all parties that would be interested in the
creation of soc.culture.turkish.moderated.

Proponent: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>

From y-pisan@nwu.edu Mon Oct 13 15:15:06 1997
Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back
From: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.turkish,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.kurdish,soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.pakistan,talk.politics.mideast
Subject: 2nd RFD: soc.culture.turkish.moderated moderated
Followup-To: news.groups
Message-ID: <876780302.12742@isc.org>
Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org
Archive-Name: soc.culture.turkish.moderated
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 22:05:02 GMT
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                     REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
            moderated group soc.culture.turkish.moderated

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of
a worldwide moderated Usenet newsgroup
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  This is not a Call for Votes
(CFV); you cannot vote at this time.  Procedural details are below.

All follow-up discussion should be on news.groups.  Any
discussion on other newsgroups should be crossposted to
news.groups.

Changes from the previous RFD:
1) Minor typos fixed
2) Clarified when the RoboModerator will forward articles
3) Clarified that 2/3 majority of moderators is needed to become
or dismiss a moderator
4) Changed Newsgroups line to include Turks as well as Turkey
5) Stressed lack of relevant content in SCT.
6) Clarified that moderation team will only cancel forgeries and
that the moderation team will post explanations for articles that are
distributed as a result of robomoderator or moderator error, but
will not cancel such articles.


Newsgroup line:
soc.culture.turkish.moderated	Issues related to Turks/Turkey. (Moderated)

RATIONALE: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

Currently, there is a specific newsgroup on the Internet
soc.culture.turkish (SCT) which is the only discussion group for
issues relating to Turkey.  While SCT has enjoyed a large group
of participants, the quality of articles has changed in the last
couple of years:

        * Large amount of crossposting to newsgroups that are
hostile to soc.culture.turkish has created a hostile environment
in SCT (approximately 25% of articles are crossposted to more
than 3 newsgroups)

        * An increased hostility within SCT and members of other
groups which has created an increase in name calling and use of
disposable accounts to spread hatred.

        * Approximately 20% of articles have less than 1/3
original text as a result of increased hostility.

        * Almost all users who have posted to SCT have had public
insults against them which has resulted in a lot of readers to
stay quiet or leave.

        * The heavy traffic on SCT combined with people swearing
at each other makes it difficult to find the original articles.

        * Many readers have chosen to leave SCT due to increased
hostility and lack of relevant articles about Turkey and Turks.
soc.culture.turkish.moderated will once again offer a civilized
place of discussion and attract past users as well as new users.

The name chosen for this group is soc.culture.turkish.moderated,
which is reflects its proposed content and its origins.  This
newsgroup is not intended to replace soc.culture.turkish.
soc.culture.turkish will remain as an unmoderated forum. Instead,
soc.culture.turkish.moderated will offer an alternative, less
hostile area for discussion.  I and the subscribers feel that a
moderated newsgroup is necessary to keep the peace and ensure
that articles make at least a good faith attempt to obey the
charter rules.

CHARTER: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

This group would encourage posting of material relating to Turks
and Turkey (Turkiye) and all issues related to Turkey.  All
articles which in some way relates to Turkey will be welcomes in
the group.  Legitimate topics include but are not limited to:
Turkish language, history, politics, universities, cultural
centers, announcement of related web pages and mailing lists,
places to visit in Turkey, current and past leaders of Turkey as
well as problems and concerns of Turks living inside or outside
of Turkey.

Articles will be rejected if they fall into any of the categories
below:

        * Articles that are not related in any way to Turkey or
Turks.

        * Chain letters, pyramid schemes, mass non-Turkey related
advertisement, "Adult" type material, binary files (PGP
signatures and small binaries related to authentication are OK)

        * Articles including insults, swear words or explicit
threats to individuals or groups

        * Duplicate postings or postings that qualify as
"substantively equal" according to the current Spam cancel
guidelines won't be accepted even if they don't have a Breidbart
index of 20 or more.

        * Articles with less than 1/3 new material or less than 3
lines of original text.

        * Articles crossposted to more than 5 newsgroups.

        * Crossposted articles that do not have a "Followup-To:"
header indicating which newsgroup further discussion should take
place.  The Followup-To header must contain "poster" or up to 3
newsgroups.

        * Articles crossposted to groups not related to Turkey or
the current subject (such as crossposts to alt.sex, or misc.test)

        * Ads must be clearly labeled as "[AD]" or "[REKLAM]" in
the subject line, must be related to Turkey in some way and
cannot be posted more than once every 2 months.

All articles that are related to Turkey or Turks will be welcome.
No article will be rejected based on content or subject unless
they fall into one of the categories above.

soc.culture.turkish.moderated is bound by rules that regulate
usenet articles and soc.culture.* hierarchy.  The moderators will
make their best effort to make sure that these policies are
followed but try to maintain a free flow of information otherwise.

Moderation Policy:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Soc.culture.turkish.moderated shall make use of the STUMP
RoboModeration program developed by Igor Chudov
<ichudov@algebra.com>.  For more information on STUMP, see
<http://www.algebra.com/~ichudov/stump.html>.  In addition to
RoboModeration there will be team of human moderators.

The RoboModerator first will screen every article submitted to
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  RoboModerator will take one of three
courses of action: reject the submission automatically, post the
submission automatically, or forward the submission to the human
moderation panel for review.

RoboModerator will always send the Charter and other relevant
information about soc.culture.turkish.moderated to first time
posters.

RoboModerator will reject the article if

        * the article is a duplicate or "substantively equal" to
a previous article according to the current spam cancel
guidelines

        * the article contains less than 1/3 new material or
less than 3 lines of original text.

        * the article is crossposted to more than 5 newsgroups or
the crossposted article does not have a "Followup-To:" header.
All corssposted articles must have "Followup-To:" header
containing contain 'poster' or a maximum of 3 newsgroups
indicating where discussion should be directed.

        * the article is a binary posting (except PGP signatures
and binaries less than 2K)

RoboModerator will post the article if

        * the article is from an established reader of
soc.culture.turkish.moderated and does not contain any keywords
such as "Make Money Fast", "Adult Pictures", "stupid asshole".
The specified keywords will be decided by a majority of the
moderation team.  If the article does contain any of these
keywords, the article will be forwarded to the moderators.  The
moderators can ask established users to use PGP if abusers start
using fake email addresses to appear as if they are on the
established user list to get their articles approved
automatically.


RoboModerator will forward the article to moderators if

        * the article is from an established user but contains at
least one of the specified keywords decided by the moderators

        * the article is not from an established user and requires
moderator approval before being distributed.


An established reader is any reader who has a track record of
posts that have been accepted to soc.culture.turkish.moderated.
A poster shall be granted established user status by a majority
vote of moderators after he/she has had an article accepted to
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  A poster will be taken off the
established reader list after 3 rejected articles or by a
majority vote of the moderators.

If an article is distributed to soc.culture.turkish.moderated due
to forgery (such fake Approved: header, someone pretending to be
a user on the established list) the article will be canceled by
PGPMoose or the appropriate software.  If an article is
distributed due to moderator or robomoderator errors, an
explanation will be posted to the newsgroups the article was
distributed and steps will be taken to prevent similar errors in
the future.

Articles that are forwarded to the moderator will be accepted or
rejected in accordance with the Charter for
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  Rejected articles will always
contain the reasons for rejection.

A poster whose article is rejected can appeal the decision to the
team of moderators.  If majority of moderators agree or the
moderators are evenly split the article will be posted.

Moderators will make their best effort to create a suitable
discussion forum on soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  It is
possible that a user will flood the newsgroup with articles to
prevent discussion, submit variations of the same articles
periodically or try to prevent discussion in ways unforseen at
this time.  The moderators will use their discretion to reject
articles intended to disrupt discussion.  As with all
submissions, a majority of moderators is required to reject
articles.

In general users should follow the guidelines posted by Mark
Moraes in news.announce.newusers under the subject: Rules for
posting to Usenet (this document can also be found on the web at:
http://www.netannounce.org/news.announce.newusers/) The reason
that we have a moderated group is to keep this group focused and
to filter out the stuff that drive most people out of other
groups.  Since moderation is not in place to censure ideas, or
limit debate every effort will be made to automate the moderation
process, thus keeping the flow of ideas continuous.

Becoming a moderator:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Any user can appeal to the panel of moderators and request to be
added to the moderation team.  A new moderator will be added if
there is 2/3 majority among moderators for his/her acceptance.

Process for replacing moderators:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If a moderator does not attend to his/her moderation duties for
30 consecutive days, he/she will be assumed to have left the
moderation team.  Although moderators are free to leave any time,
it is expected that they will make a good faith effort to find a
candidate before they leave.  Any candidate for a moderator needs
2/3 majority of the moderators to be accepted.  A moderator
cannot assign his/her position over to someone else.

Any user can bring a complaint to the moderation panel if he/she
feels his/her articles have been rejected unfairly by submitting
5 articles which he/she believes were wrongfully rejected.  The
moderation panel will review the articles and take necessary
action.  If the rejection is due to robomoderator, the program
will be modified.  If the rejection is due to a rogue moderator
the moderation panel will vote whether the moderator should be
dismissed.  If there is 2/3 majority among moderators to dismiss
the rogue moderator, the rogue moderator will be dismissed.

If a moderator approves an article that the majority of the
moderation team agrees is against the Charter, the article in
question will be canceled.  If there is a 2/3 majority agreement
among moderators that the moderator accepted the article knowing
it was against the Charter, the moderator will be dismissed.

Accountability of Moderators:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The panel of human moderators shall maintain a log of its
activities.  This log shall be posted once every two months, thus
making the moderators accountable to the readership.  The
specific keywords that force the RoboModerator to send an article
to the moderators will also be posted at this time.

END CHARTER.

MODERATOR INFO: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

Moderator: Zafer Bozkus <bozkus@narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr>
Moderator: Hasan Baha CAYIR <hbc@turk.ch>
Moderator: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>
Moderator: Uzman <uzman@urgentmail.com>
Moderator: Huseyin Vural <hvural@narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr>

Administrative contact address: sctm-moderators@bigfoot.com
Submission Address: sctm@bigfoot.com

END MODERATOR INFO.

PROCEDURE:

This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this
phase of the process, any potential problems with the proposed
newsgroup should be raised and resolved.

The discussion period will continue for a minimum of 21 days
(starting from when the RFD for this proposal is posted to
news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For Votes (CFV) may
be posted by a neutral vote taker if the discussion warrants
it. Please do not attempt to vote until this happens.

All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.

This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup
creation guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet
Newsgroup" and "How to Format and Submit a New Group
Proposal". Please refer to these documents (available in
news.announce.newgroups) if you have any questions about the
process.

END PROCEDURE.

DISTRIBUTION:

This RFD is being posted to the following newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
soc.culture.turkish
soc.culture.greek
soc.culture.kurdish
soc.culture.iranian
soc.culture.arabic
soc.culture.pakistan
talk.politics.mideast

and to the following mailing lists

TRKNWS-L        Turkish news mailing list
                Send email to <trh@aimnet.com> to subscribe

ANADOLU         To subscribe email to <listserv@msu.edu>
                "sub ANADOLU e-mail Name Lastname"

The official RFD as it appears on news.announce.newsgroups can be
found from:

<ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/soc/soc.culture.turkish.moderated>

Additional information concerning the creation of this newsgroup
is available at:

<http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~yusuf/sctm/>

All reasonable effort has been made to make this document
accessible to all parties that would be interested in the
creation of soc.culture.turkish.moderated.

Proponent: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>

From y-pisan@nwu.edu Sun Oct 19 14:03:03 1997
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                     REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
            moderated group soc.culture.turkish.moderated

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of
a worldwide moderated Usenet newsgroup
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  This is not a Call for Votes
(CFV); you cannot vote at this time.  Procedural details are below.

All follow-up discussion should be on news.groups.  Any
discussion on other newsgroups should be crossposted to
news.groups.

Changes from the previous RFD:
1) Minor typos fixed
2) Clarified when the RoboModerator will forward articles
3) Clarified that 2/3 majority of moderators is needed to become
or dismiss a moderator
4) Changed Newsgroups line to include Turks as well as Turkey
5) Stressed lack of relevant content in SCT.
6) Clarified that moderation team will only cancel forgeries and
that the moderation team will post explanations for articles that are
distributed as a result of robomoderator or moderator error, but
will not cancel such articles.


Newsgroup line:
soc.culture.turkish.moderated	Issues related to Turks/Turkey. (Moderated)

RATIONALE: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

Currently, there is a specific newsgroup on the Internet
soc.culture.turkish (SCT) which is the only discussion group for
issues relating to Turkey.  While SCT has enjoyed a large group
of participants, the quality of articles has changed in the last
couple of years:

        * Large amount of crossposting to newsgroups that are
hostile to soc.culture.turkish has created a hostile environment
in SCT (approximately 25% of articles are crossposted to more
than 3 newsgroups)

        * An increased hostility within SCT and members of other
groups which has created an increase in name calling and use of
disposable accounts to spread hatred.

        * Approximately 20% of articles have less than 1/3
original text as a result of increased hostility.

        * Almost all users who have posted to SCT have had public
insults against them which has resulted in a lot of readers to
stay quiet or leave.

        * The heavy traffic on SCT combined with people swearing
at each other makes it difficult to find the original articles.

        * Many readers have chosen to leave SCT due to increased
hostility and lack of relevant articles about Turkey and Turks.
soc.culture.turkish.moderated will once again offer a civilized
place of discussion and attract past users as well as new users.

The name chosen for this group is soc.culture.turkish.moderated,
which is reflects its proposed content and its origins.  This
newsgroup is not intended to replace soc.culture.turkish.
soc.culture.turkish will remain as an unmoderated forum. Instead,
soc.culture.turkish.moderated will offer an alternative, less
hostile area for discussion.  I and the subscribers feel that a
moderated newsgroup is necessary to keep the peace and ensure
that articles make at least a good faith attempt to obey the
charter rules.

CHARTER: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

This group would encourage posting of material relating to Turks
and Turkey (Turkiye) and all issues related to Turkey.  All
articles which in some way relates to Turkey will be welcomes in
the group.  Legitimate topics include but are not limited to:
Turkish language, history, politics, universities, cultural
centers, announcement of related web pages and mailing lists,
places to visit in Turkey, current and past leaders of Turkey as
well as problems and concerns of Turks living inside or outside
of Turkey.

Articles will be rejected if they fall into any of the categories
below:

        * Articles that are not related in any way to Turkey or
Turks.

        * Chain letters, pyramid schemes, mass non-Turkey related
advertisement, "Adult" type material, binary files (PGP
signatures and small binaries related to authentication are OK)

        * Articles including insults, swear words or explicit
threats to individuals or groups

        * Duplicate postings or postings that qualify as
"substantively equal" according to the current Spam cancel
guidelines won't be accepted even if they don't have a Breidbart
index of 20 or more.

        * Articles with less than 1/3 new material or less than 3
lines of original text.

        * Articles crossposted to more than 5 newsgroups.

        * Crossposted articles that do not have a "Followup-To:"
header indicating which newsgroup further discussion should take
place.  The Followup-To header must contain "poster" or up to 3
newsgroups.

        * Articles crossposted to groups not related to Turkey or
the current subject (such as crossposts to alt.sex, or misc.test)

        * Ads must be clearly labeled as "[AD]" or "[REKLAM]" in
the subject line, must be related to Turkey in some way and
cannot be posted more than once every 2 months.

All articles that are related to Turkey or Turks will be welcome.
No article will be rejected based on content or subject unless
they fall into one of the categories above.

soc.culture.turkish.moderated is bound by rules that regulate
usenet articles and soc.culture.* hierarchy.  The moderators will
make their best effort to make sure that these policies are
followed but try to maintain a free flow of information otherwise.

Moderation Policy:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Soc.culture.turkish.moderated shall make use of the STUMP
RoboModeration program developed by Igor Chudov
<ichudov@algebra.com>.  For more information on STUMP, see
<http://www.algebra.com/~ichudov/stump.html>.  In addition to
RoboModeration there will be team of human moderators.

The RoboModerator first will screen every article submitted to
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  RoboModerator will take one of three
courses of action: reject the submission automatically, post the
submission automatically, or forward the submission to the human
moderation panel for review.

RoboModerator will always send the Charter and other relevant
information about soc.culture.turkish.moderated to first time
posters.

RoboModerator will reject the article if

        * the article is a duplicate or "substantively equal" to
a previous article according to the current spam cancel
guidelines

        * the article contains less than 1/3 new material or
less than 3 lines of original text.

        * the article is crossposted to more than 5 newsgroups or
the crossposted article does not have a "Followup-To:" header.
All corssposted articles must have "Followup-To:" header
containing contain 'poster' or a maximum of 3 newsgroups
indicating where discussion should be directed.

        * the article is a binary posting (except PGP signatures
and binaries less than 2K)

RoboModerator will post the article if

        * the article is from an established reader of
soc.culture.turkish.moderated and does not contain any keywords
such as "Make Money Fast", "Adult Pictures", "stupid asshole".
The specified keywords will be decided by a majority of the
moderation team.  If the article does contain any of these
keywords, the article will be forwarded to the moderators.  The
moderators can ask established users to use PGP if abusers start
using fake email addresses to appear as if they are on the
established user list to get their articles approved
automatically.


RoboModerator will forward the article to moderators if

        * the article is from an established user but contains at
least one of the specified keywords decided by the moderators

        * the article is not from an established user and requires
moderator approval before being distributed.


An established reader is any reader who has a track record of
posts that have been accepted to soc.culture.turkish.moderated.
A poster shall be granted established user status by a majority
vote of moderators after he/she has had an article accepted to
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  A poster will be taken off the
established reader list after 3 rejected articles or by a
majority vote of the moderators.

If an article is distributed to soc.culture.turkish.moderated due
to forgery (such fake Approved: header, someone pretending to be
a user on the established list) the article will be canceled by
PGPMoose or the appropriate software.  If an article is
distributed due to moderator or robomoderator errors, an
explanation will be posted to the newsgroups the article was
distributed and steps will be taken to prevent similar errors in
the future.

Articles that are forwarded to the moderator will be accepted or
rejected in accordance with the Charter for
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  Rejected articles will always
contain the reasons for rejection.

A poster whose article is rejected can appeal the decision to the
team of moderators.  If majority of moderators agree or the
moderators are evenly split the article will be posted.

Moderators will make their best effort to create a suitable
discussion forum on soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  It is
possible that a user will flood the newsgroup with articles to
prevent discussion, submit variations of the same articles
periodically or try to prevent discussion in ways unforseen at
this time.  The moderators will use their discretion to reject
articles intended to disrupt discussion.  As with all
submissions, a majority of moderators is required to reject
articles.

In general users should follow the guidelines posted by Mark
Moraes in news.announce.newusers under the subject: Rules for
posting to Usenet (this document can also be found on the web at:
http://www.netannounce.org/news.announce.newusers/) The reason
that we have a moderated group is to keep this group focused and
to filter out the stuff that drive most people out of other
groups.  Since moderation is not in place to censure ideas, or
limit debate every effort will be made to automate the moderation
process, thus keeping the flow of ideas continuous.

Becoming a moderator:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Any user can appeal to the panel of moderators and request to be
added to the moderation team.  A new moderator will be added if
there is 2/3 majority among moderators for his/her acceptance.

Process for replacing moderators:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If a moderator does not attend to his/her moderation duties for
30 consecutive days, he/she will be assumed to have left the
moderation team.  Although moderators are free to leave any time,
it is expected that they will make a good faith effort to find a
candidate before they leave.  Any candidate for a moderator needs
2/3 majority of the moderators to be accepted.  A moderator
cannot assign his/her position over to someone else.

Any user can bring a complaint to the moderation panel if he/she
feels his/her articles have been rejected unfairly by submitting
5 articles which he/she believes were wrongfully rejected.  The
moderation panel will review the articles and take necessary
action.  If the rejection is due to robomoderator, the program
will be modified.  If the rejection is due to a rogue moderator
the moderation panel will vote whether the moderator should be
dismissed.  If there is 2/3 majority among moderators to dismiss
the rogue moderator, the rogue moderator will be dismissed.

If a moderator approves an article that the majority of the
moderation team agrees is against the Charter, the article in
question will be canceled.  If there is a 2/3 majority agreement
among moderators that the moderator accepted the article knowing
it was against the Charter, the moderator will be dismissed.

Accountability of Moderators:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The panel of human moderators shall maintain a log of its
activities.  This log shall be posted once every two months, thus
making the moderators accountable to the readership.  The
specific keywords that force the RoboModerator to send an article
to the moderators will also be posted at this time.

END CHARTER.

MODERATOR INFO: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

Moderator: Zafer Bozkus <bozkus@narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr>
Moderator: Hasan Baha CAYIR <hbc@turk.ch>
Moderator: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>
Moderator: Uzman <uzman@urgentmail.com>
Moderator: Huseyin Vural <hvural@narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr>

Administrative contact address: sctm-moderators@bigfoot.com
Submission Address: sctm@bigfoot.com

END MODERATOR INFO.

PROCEDURE:

This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this
phase of the process, any potential problems with the proposed
newsgroup should be raised and resolved.

The discussion period will continue for a minimum of 21 days
(starting from when the RFD for this proposal is posted to
news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For Votes (CFV) may
be posted by a neutral vote taker if the discussion warrants
it. Please do not attempt to vote until this happens.

All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.

This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup
creation guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet
Newsgroup" and "How to Format and Submit a New Group
Proposal". Please refer to these documents (available in
news.announce.newgroups) if you have any questions about the
process.

END PROCEDURE.

DISTRIBUTION:

This RFD is being posted to the following newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
soc.culture.turkish
soc.culture.greek
soc.culture.kurdish
soc.culture.iranian
soc.culture.arabic
soc.culture.pakistan
talk.politics.mideast

and to the following mailing lists

TRKNWS-L        Turkish news mailing list
                Send email to <trh@aimnet.com> to subscribe

ANADOLU         To subscribe email to <listserv@msu.edu>
                "sub ANADOLU e-mail Name Lastname"

The official RFD as it appears on news.announce.newsgroups can be
found from:

<ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/soc/soc.culture.turkish.moderated>

Additional information concerning the creation of this newsgroup
is available at:

<http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~yusuf/sctm/>

All reasonable effort has been made to make this document
accessible to all parties that would be interested in the
creation of soc.culture.turkish.moderated.

Proponent: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>
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                     REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
            moderated group soc.culture.turkish.moderated

This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of
a worldwide moderated Usenet newsgroup
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  This is not a Call for Votes
(CFV); you cannot vote at this time.  Procedural details are below.

All follow-up discussion should be on news.groups.  Any
discussion on other newsgroups should be crossposted to
news.groups.

CHANGES from previous RFD:

1) Minor typos fixed
2) Clarified that moderation team will only cancel forgeries and
that the moderation team will post explanations for articles that are
distributed as a result of RoboModerator or moderator error, but
will not cancel such articles.

Newsgroup line:
soc.culture.turkish.moderated	Issues related to Turks/Turkey. (Moderated)

RATIONALE: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

Currently, there is a specific newsgroup on the Internet
soc.culture.turkish (SCT) which is the only discussion group for
issues relating to Turkey.  While SCT has enjoyed a large group
of participants, the quality of articles has changed in the last
couple of years:

        * Large amount of crossposting to other soc.culture.*
newsgroups.  Unfortunately, the cross-posting tends to create
inter-cultural conflict rather than inter-cultural understanding.
This is disruptive not only to soc.culture.turkish but to the
other groups (approximately 25% of articles are crossposted to
more than 3 newsgroups).

        * An increased hostility within SCT and members of other
groups which has created an increase in name calling and use of
disposable accounts to spread hatred.

        * Approximately 20% of articles have less than 1/3
original text as a result of increased hostility.

        * Almost all users who have posted to SCT have had public
insults against them which has resulted in a lot of readers to
stay quiet or leave.

        * The heavy traffic on SCT combined with people swearing
at each other makes it difficult to find the original articles.

        * Many readers have chosen to leave SCT due to increased
hostility and lack of relevant articles about Turkey and Turks.
soc.culture.turkish.moderated will once again offer a civilized
place of discussion and attract past users as well as new users.

The name chosen for this group is soc.culture.turkish.moderated,
which is reflects its proposed content and its origins.  This
newsgroup is not intended to replace soc.culture.turkish.
soc.culture.turkish will remain as an unmoderated forum. Instead,
soc.culture.turkish.moderated will offer an alternative, less
hostile area for discussion.  I and the subscribers feel that a
moderated newsgroup is necessary to keep the peace and ensure
that articles make at least a good faith attempt to obey the
charter rules.

CHARTER: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

This group would encourage posting of material relating to Turks
and Turkey (Turkiye).  All articles which in some way relates to
Turkey or Turks will be welcome in this group.  Legitimate topics
include but are not limited to: Turkish language, history,
politics, universities, cultural centers, announcement of related
web pages and mailing lists, places to visit in Turkey, current
and past leaders of Turkey as well as problems and concerns of
Turks living inside or outside of Turkey.

Articles will be rejected if they fall into any of the categories
below:

        * Articles that are not related in any way to Turkey or
Turks.

        * Chain letters, pyramid schemes, mass non-Turkey related
advertisement, "Adult" type material, binary or multipart
postings (PGP signatures and small binaries related to
authentication are OK)

        * Articles including insults, swear words or explicit
threats to individuals or groups

        * Duplicate postings or postings that qualify as
"substantively equal" according to the current spam cancel
guidelines

        * Articles with less than 1/3 new material or less than 3
lines of original text.

        * Articles crossposted to more than 5 newsgroups.

        * Crossposted articles that do not have a "Followup-To:"
header.  The Followup-To header must be present for all
crossposted articles and must contain "poster" or a maximum of 3
newsgroups indicating which newsgroup(s) further discussion
should take place.

        * Articles crossposted to groups not related to Turkey or
the current subject (such as crossposts to alt.sex, or misc.test)

        * Ads must be clearly labeled as "[AD]" or "[REKLAM]" in
the beginning of the subject line, must be related to Turkey in
some way and cannot be posted more than once every 2 months.

All articles that are related to Turkey or Turks will be welcome.
No article will be rejected based on content or subject unless
they fall into one of the categories above.

soc.culture.turkish.moderated is bound by rules that regulate
usenet articles and soc.culture.* hierarchy.  The moderators will
make their best effort to make sure that these policies are
followed but try to maintain a free flow of information otherwise.

Moderation Policy:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The SCTM moderators will use robomoderation software like the
STUMP program developed by Igor Chudov <ichudov@algebra.com>.
For more information on STUMP, see
<http://www.algebra.com/~ichudov/stump.html>.  In addition to
RoboModeration there will be team of human moderators.

The RoboModerator first will screen every article submitted to
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  RoboModerator will take one of three
courses of action: reject the submission automatically, post the
submission automatically, or forward the submission to the human
moderation panel for review.

RoboModerator will always send the Charter and other relevant
information about soc.culture.turkish.moderated to first time
posters.

RoboModerator will reject the article if

        * the article is a duplicate or "substantively equal" to
a previous article according to the current spam cancel
guidelines

        * the article containes less than 1/3 new material or
less than 3 lines of original text.

        * the article is crossposted to more than 5 newsgroups or
the crossposted article does not have a "Followup-To:" header.
All crossposted articles must have "Followup-To:" header
containing 'poster' or a maximum of 3 newsgroups indicating where
discussion should be directed.

        * the article is a binary or multipart posting (except
PGP signatures and small binaries related to authentication)

RoboModerator will post the article if

        * the article is from an established poster to
soc.culture.turkish.moderated and does not contain any keywords
such as "Make Money Fast", "Adult Pictures", "stupid asshole".
If the article does contain any of these keywords, the article
will be forwarded to the moderators.  The moderators can ask
established posters to use PGP if abusers start using fake email
addresses to appear as if they are on the established user list
to get their articles approved automatically. The specified
keywords will be decided by a majority of the moderation team.


RoboModerator will forward the article to moderators if

        * the article is from an established poster but contains at
least one of the specified keywords decided by the moderators

        * the article is not from an established poster and
requires moderator approval before being distributed.


An established poster is any reader who has a track record of
posts that have been accepted to soc.culture.turkish.moderated.
A poster shall be granted established poster status by a majority
vote of moderators after he/she has had an article accepted to
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  A poster will be taken off the
established poster list after 3 rejected articles or by a
majority vote of the moderators.

If an article is distributed to soc.culture.turkish.moderated due
to forgery (such as a fake Approved header, someone pretending to
be a user on the established poster list) the article will be
canceled by PGPMoose or the appropriate software.  If an article
is distributed due to moderator or RoboModerator error, an
explanation will be posted to the newsgroups the article was
distributed and steps will be taken to prevent similar errors in
the future.

Articles that are forwarded to the moderator will be accepted or
rejected in accordance with the Charter for
soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  Rejected articles will always
contain the reasons for rejection.

A poster whose article is rejected can appeal the decision to the
team of moderators.  If majority of moderators agree or the
moderators are evenly split the article will be posted.

Moderators will make their best effort to create a suitable
discussion forum on soc.culture.turkish.moderated.  It is
possible that a user will flood the newsgroup with articles to
prevent discussion, submit variations of the same articles
periodically or try to prevent discussion in ways unforeseen at
this time.  The moderators will use their discretion to reject
articles intended to disrupt discussion.

Users should follow the generally accepted rules for posting to
Usenet.  At the time of the creation of this group, Mike Moraes
is maintaining a compilation of these rules available at
news.announce.newusers under the subject: Rules for posting to
Usenet (this document can also be currently found on the web at:
<http://www.netannounce.org/news.announce.newusers/>) The reason
that we have a moderated group is to keep this group focused and
to filter out the stuff that drive most people out of other
groups.  Since moderation is not in place to censure ideas, or
limit debate every effort will be made to automate the moderation
process, thus keeping the flow of ideas continuous.

Becoming a moderator:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Any user can appeal to the panel of moderators and request to be
added to the moderation team.  A new moderator will be added if
there is 2/3 majority among moderators for his/her acceptance.

Resigning from moderation team:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Although moderators are free to leave any time, it is expected
that they will make a good faith effort to find a candidate
before they leave.  Any candidate for a moderator needs 2/3
majority of the moderators to be accepted.  A moderator cannot
assign his/her position over to someone else.

Complaints against Moderators:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If a user feels that the RoboModerator or one or several members
of the moderation team display erroneous or inappropriate
behavior with regard to their responsibilities as a moderator
for soc.culture.turkish.moderated, he/she can bring a complaint
to the moderation panel.  The moderation panel will review the
complaint and take appropriate action. These actions may include
modification of the RoboModerator setup or even dismissing a
rogue moderator by a 2/3 majority vote of the moderators.

Accountability of Moderators:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If a moderator does not attend to his/her moderation duties for
30 consecutive days, he/she will be assumed to have left the
moderation team.

The panel of human moderators shall maintain a log of its
activities.  This log shall be made publicly available once every
two months, thus making the moderators accountable to the
readership.  The specific keywords that force the RoboModerator
to send an article to the human moderators will also be made
publicly available at this time.

END CHARTER.

MODERATOR INFO: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

Moderator: Zafer Bozkus <bozkus@narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr>
Moderator: Hasan Baha CAYIR <hbc@turk.ch>
Moderator: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>
Moderator: Uzman <uzman@urgentmail.com>
Moderator: Huseyin Vural <hvural@narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr>

Administrative contact address: sctm-moderators@bigfoot.com
Submission Address: sctm@bigfoot.com

END MODERATOR INFO.

PROCEDURE:

This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this
phase of the process, any potential problems with the proposed
newsgroup should be raised and resolved.

The discussion period will continue for a minimum of 21 days
(starting from when the RFD for this proposal is posted to
news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For Votes (CFV) may
be posted by a neutral vote taker if the discussion warrants
it. Please do not attempt to vote until this happens.

All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.

This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup
creation guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet
Newsgroup" and "How to Format and Submit a New Group
Proposal". Please refer to these documents (available in
news.announce.newgroups) if you have any questions about the
process.

END PROCEDURE.

DISTRIBUTION:

This RFD is being posted to the following newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
soc.culture.turkish
soc.culture.greek
soc.culture.kurdish
soc.culture.iranian
soc.culture.arabic
soc.culture.pakistan
talk.politics.mideast

and to the following mailing lists

TRKNWS-L        Turkish news mailing list
                Send email to <trh@aimnet.com> to subscribe

ANADOLU         To subscribe email to <listserv@msu.edu>
                "sub ANADOLU e-mail Name Lastname"

The official RFD as it appears on news.announce.newsgroups can be
found from:

<ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/soc/soc.culture.turkish.moderated>

Additional information concerning the creation of this newsgroup
is available at:

<http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~yusuf/sctm/>

All reasonable effort has been made to make this document
accessible to all parties that would be interested in the
creation of soc.culture.turkish.moderated.

Proponent: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>

From neilc@stanford.edu Wed Nov  5 00:00:07 1997
Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back
From: Neil Crellin <neilc@stanford.edu>
Reply-To: voting@uvv.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.kurdish,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast
Subject: CFV: soc.culture.turkish.moderated moderated
Followup-To: poster
Message-ID: <878716156.15564@isc.org>
References: <876361513.25904@isc.org> <876780302.12742@isc.org> <877374687.4792@isc.org>
Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers
Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org
Expires: 27 Nov 1997 00:00:00 GMT
Archive-Name: soc.culture.turkish.moderated
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 07:49:17 GMT
Lines: 215
Xref: news.isc.org news.announce.newgroups:920

                     FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
            moderated group soc.culture.turkish.moderated

This CFV is to be distributed only by the votetaker.  It is not to be
posted to newsgroups, or mailed to mailing lists or individuals, except by
the votetaker.  Ballots or CFVs provided by anyone else will be invalid.

Newsgroups line:
soc.culture.turkish.moderated	Issues related to Turks/Turkey. (Moderated)

Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 26 Nov 1997.

This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  Questions
about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent.

Proponent: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>
Votetaker: Neil Crellin <neilc@stanford.edu>

RATIONALE: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

Currently, there is a specific newsgroup on the Internet
soc.culture.turkish (SCT) which is the only discussion group for
issues relating to Turkey.  While SCT has enjoyed a large group
of participants, the quality of articles has changed in the last
couple of years:

        * Large amount of crossposting to other soc.culture.*
newsgroups.  Unfortunately, the cross-posting tends to create
inter-cultural conflict rather than inter-cultural understanding.
This is disruptive not only to soc.culture.turkish but to the
other groups (approximately 25% of articles are crossposted to
more than 3 newsgroups).

        * An increased hostility within SCT and members of other
groups which has created an increase in name calling and use of
disposable accounts to spread hatred.

        * Approximately 20% of articles have less than 1/3
original text as a result of increased hostility.

        * Almost all users who have posted to SCT have had public
insults against them which has resulted in a lot of readers to
stay quiet or leave.

        * The heavy traffic on SCT combined with people swearing
at each other makes it difficult to find the original articles.

        * Many readers have chosen to leave SCT due to increased
hostility and lack of relevant articles about Turkey and Turks.
soc.culture.turkish.moderated will once again offer a civilized
place of discussion and attract past users as well as new users.

The name chosen for this group is soc.culture.turkish.moderated,
which is reflects its proposed content and its origins.  This
newsgroup is not intended to replace soc.culture.turkish.
soc.culture.turkish will remain as an unmoderated forum. Instead,
soc.culture.turkish.moderated will offer an alternative, less
hostile area for discussion.  I and the subscribers feel that a
moderated newsgroup is necessary to keep the peace and ensure
that articles make at least a good faith attempt to obey the
charter rules.

CHARTER: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

This group would encourage posting of material relating to Turks
and Turkey (Turkiye).  All articles which in some way relates to
Turkey or Turks will be welcome in this group.  Legitimate topics
include but are not limited to: Turkish language, history,
politics, universities, cultural centers, announcement of related
web pages and mailing lists, places to visit in Turkey, current
and past leaders of Turkey as well as problems and concerns of
Turks living inside or outside of Turkey.

Articles will be rejected if they fall into any of the categories
below:

        * Articles that are not related in any way to Turkey or Turks.

        * Chain letters, pyramid schemes, mass non-Turkey related
advertisement, "Adult" type material, binary or multipart
postings (PGP signatures and small binaries related to
authentication are OK)

        * Articles including insults, swear words or explicit
threats to individuals or groups

        * Duplicate postings or postings that qualify as
"substantively equal" according to the current spam cancel
guidelines

        * Articles with less than 1/3 new material or less than 3
lines of original text.

        * Articles crossposted to more than 5 newsgroups.

        * Crossposted articles that do not have a "Followup-To:"
header.  The Followup-To header must be present for all
crossposted articles and must contain "poster" or a maximum of 3
newsgroups indicating which newsgroup(s) further discussion
should take place.

        * Articles crossposted to groups not related to Turkey or
the current subject (such as crossposts to alt.sex, or misc.test)

        * Ads must be clearly labeled as "[AD]" or "[REKLAM]" in
the beginning of the subject line, must be related to Turkey in
some way and cannot be posted more than once every 2 months.

All articles that are related to Turkey or Turks will be welcome.
No article will be rejected based on content or subject unless
they fall into one of the categories above.

soc.culture.turkish.moderated is bound by rules that regulate
usenet articles and soc.culture.* hierarchy.  The moderators will
make their best effort to make sure that these policies are
followed but try to maintain a free flow of information
otherwise.

SCTM will be moderated using a combination of a RoboModerator and
a team of human moderators.  New moderators can be added and
existing moderators dismissed by a 2/3 majority of the moderation
team.  For a detailed explanation about the moderation process
please refer to the RFD which can be found at
<ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/soc/soc.culture.turkish.moderated>
or <http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~yusuf/sctm/>.

END CHARTER.

MODERATOR INFO: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

Moderator: Zafer Bozkus <bozkus@narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr>
Moderator: Hasan Baha CAYIR <hbc@turk.ch>
Moderator: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>
Moderator: Uzman <uzman@urgentmail.com>
Moderator: Huseyin Vural <hvural@narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr>
Administrative contact address: sctm-moderators@bigfoot.com
Article submission address: sctm@bigfoot.com

END MODERATOR INFO.

IMPORTANT VOTING PROCEDURE NOTES: READ THIS BEFORE VOTING

Standard Guidelines for voting apply.  One vote per person, one account
per voter.  Votes must be mailed directly from the voter to the votetaker.
Anonymous, forwarded or proxy votes are not valid.  Votes mailed by
WWW/HTML/CGI forms are considered to be anonymous votes.

Vote counting is automated.  Failure to follow these directions may
mean that your vote does not get counted.  If you do not receive an
acknowledgment of your vote within three days contact the votetaker
about the problem.  It's your responsibility to make sure your vote
is registered correctly.  Duplicate votes are resolved in favor of
the most recent valid vote.  Addresses and votes of all voters will
be published in the final voting results post.

The purpose of a Usenet vote is to determine the genuine interest of
persons who would read a proposed newsgroup.  Soliciting votes from
disinterested parties defeats this purpose.  Please do not distribute
this CFV.  If you must, direct people to the official CFV as posted
to news.announce.newgroups.  Distributing pre-marked or otherwise
edited copies of this CFV is generally considered to be vote fraud.
When in doubt, ask the votetaker.

HOW TO VOTE:

Extract the ballot from the CFV by deleting everything before and after
the "BEGINNING OF BALLOT" and "END OF BALLOT" lines.  Don't worry about
the spacing of the columns or any quote characters (">") that your
reply inserts.  Please, DO NOT send the entire CFV back to me!

Fill in the ballot as shown below.  Please provide your REAL NAME and
indicate your desired vote in the appropriate locations inside the ballot.

When finished, MAIL the ballot to: < voting@uvv.stanford.edu >
Just "replying" to this message should work, but check the "To:" line.

Examples of how to properly indicate your vote:

  [ YES     ]  example.yes.vote
  [ NO      ]  example.no.vote
  [ ABSTAIN ]  example.abstention
  [ CANCEL  ]  example.cancellation

DO NOT modify, alter or delete any information in this ballot!
If you do, the voting software will probably reject your ballot.

If these instructions are unclear, please consult the Introduction to
Usenet Voting or the Usenet Voting FAQ at http://www.stanford.edu/~neilc/uvv.

======== BEGINNING OF BALLOT: Delete everything before this line =======
.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| 1ST CALL FOR VOTES: soc.culture.turkish.moderated
| Official Usenet Voting Ballot <SCTM-0001> (Do not remove this line!)
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Please provide your real name, or your vote may be rejected.  Place
| ONLY your name (ie. do NOT include your e-mail address or any other
| information; ONLY your name) after the colon on the following line:

Voter name:

| Insert YES, NO, ABSTAIN, or CANCEL inside the brackets for each
| newsgroup listed below (do not delete the newsgroup name):

 Your Vote   Newsgroup
 ---------   -----------------------------------------------------------
[         ]  soc.culture.turkish.moderated (moderated)

======== END OF BALLOT: Delete everything after this line ==============


This CFV was created with uvpq 1.0 (Aug 14 1997).
PQ datestamp: 970324

-- 
Voting address: voting@uvv.stanford.edu

From neilc@stanford.edu Sat Nov 15 12:30:04 1997
Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back
From: Neil Crellin <neilc@stanford.edu>
Reply-To: voting@uvv.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.kurdish,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast
Subject: 2nd CFV: soc.culture.turkish.moderated moderated
Followup-To: poster
Message-ID: <879625755.6500@isc.org>
References: <876361513.25904@isc.org> <876780302.12742@isc.org> <877374687.4792@isc.org> <878716156.15564@isc.org>
Supersedes: <878716156.15564@isc.org>
Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers
Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org
Expires: 27 Nov 1997 00:00:00 GMT
Archive-Name: soc.culture.turkish.moderated
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:29:15 GMT
Lines: 238
Xref: news.isc.org news.announce.newgroups:952

                      LAST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
            moderated group soc.culture.turkish.moderated

This CFV is to be distributed only by the votetaker.  It is not to be
posted to newsgroups, or mailed to mailing lists or individuals, except by
the votetaker.  Ballots or CFVs provided by anyone else will be invalid.

Newsgroups line:
soc.culture.turkish.moderated	Issues related to Turks/Turkey. (Moderated)

Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 26 Nov 1997.

This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  Questions
about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent.

Proponent: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>
Votetaker: Neil Crellin <neilc@stanford.edu>

RATIONALE: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

Currently, there is a specific newsgroup on the Internet
soc.culture.turkish (SCT) which is the only discussion group for
issues relating to Turkey.  While SCT has enjoyed a large group
of participants, the quality of articles has changed in the last
couple of years:

        * Large amount of crossposting to other soc.culture.*
newsgroups.  Unfortunately, the cross-posting tends to create
inter-cultural conflict rather than inter-cultural understanding.
This is disruptive not only to soc.culture.turkish but to the
other groups (approximately 25% of articles are crossposted to
more than 3 newsgroups).

        * An increased hostility within SCT and members of other
groups which has created an increase in name calling and use of
disposable accounts to spread hatred.

        * Approximately 20% of articles have less than 1/3
original text as a result of increased hostility.

        * Almost all users who have posted to SCT have had public
insults against them which has resulted in a lot of readers to
stay quiet or leave.

        * The heavy traffic on SCT combined with people swearing
at each other makes it difficult to find the original articles.

        * Many readers have chosen to leave SCT due to increased
hostility and lack of relevant articles about Turkey and Turks.
soc.culture.turkish.moderated will once again offer a civilized
place of discussion and attract past users as well as new users.

The name chosen for this group is soc.culture.turkish.moderated,
which is reflects its proposed content and its origins.  This
newsgroup is not intended to replace soc.culture.turkish.
soc.culture.turkish will remain as an unmoderated forum. Instead,
soc.culture.turkish.moderated will offer an alternative, less
hostile area for discussion.  I and the subscribers feel that a
moderated newsgroup is necessary to keep the peace and ensure
that articles make at least a good faith attempt to obey the
charter rules.

CHARTER: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

This group would encourage posting of material relating to Turks
and Turkey (Turkiye).  All articles which in some way relates to
Turkey or Turks will be welcome in this group.  Legitimate topics
include but are not limited to: Turkish language, history,
politics, universities, cultural centers, announcement of related
web pages and mailing lists, places to visit in Turkey, current
and past leaders of Turkey as well as problems and concerns of
Turks living inside or outside of Turkey.

Articles will be rejected if they fall into any of the categories
below:

        * Articles that are not related in any way to Turkey or Turks.

        * Chain letters, pyramid schemes, mass non-Turkey related
advertisement, "Adult" type material, binary or multipart
postings (PGP signatures and small binaries related to
authentication are OK)

        * Articles including insults, swear words or explicit
threats to individuals or groups

        * Duplicate postings or postings that qualify as
"substantively equal" according to the current spam cancel
guidelines

        * Articles with less than 1/3 new material or less than 3
lines of original text.

        * Articles crossposted to more than 5 newsgroups.

        * Crossposted articles that do not have a "Followup-To:"
header.  The Followup-To header must be present for all
crossposted articles and must contain "poster" or a maximum of 3
newsgroups indicating which newsgroup(s) further discussion
should take place.

        * Articles crossposted to groups not related to Turkey or
the current subject (such as crossposts to alt.sex, or misc.test)

        * Ads must be clearly labeled as "[AD]" or "[REKLAM]" in
the beginning of the subject line, must be related to Turkey in
some way and cannot be posted more than once every 2 months.

All articles that are related to Turkey or Turks will be welcome.
No article will be rejected based on content or subject unless
they fall into one of the categories above.

soc.culture.turkish.moderated is bound by rules that regulate
usenet articles and soc.culture.* hierarchy.  The moderators will
make their best effort to make sure that these policies are
followed but try to maintain a free flow of information
otherwise.

SCTM will be moderated using a combination of a RoboModerator and
a team of human moderators.  New moderators can be added and
existing moderators dismissed by a 2/3 majority of the moderation
team.  For a detailed explanation about the moderation process
please refer to the RFD which can be found at
<ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/soc/soc.culture.turkish.moderated>
or <http://www.cs.nwu.edu/~yusuf/sctm/>.

END CHARTER.

MODERATOR INFO: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

Moderator: Zafer Bozkus <bozkus@narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr>
Moderator: Hasan Baha CAYIR <hbc@turk.ch>
Moderator: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>
Moderator: Uzman <uzman@urgentmail.com>
Moderator: Huseyin Vural <hvural@narwhal.cc.metu.edu.tr>
Administrative contact address: sctm-moderators@bigfoot.com
Article submission address: sctm@bigfoot.com

END MODERATOR INFO.

IMPORTANT VOTING PROCEDURE NOTES: READ THIS BEFORE VOTING

Standard Guidelines for voting apply.  One vote per person, one account
per voter.  Votes must be mailed directly from the voter to the votetaker.
Anonymous, forwarded or proxy votes are not valid.  Votes mailed by
WWW/HTML/CGI forms are considered to be anonymous votes.

Vote counting is automated.  Failure to follow these directions may
mean that your vote does not get counted.  If you do not receive an
acknowledgment of your vote within three days contact the votetaker
about the problem.  It's your responsibility to make sure your vote
is registered correctly.  Duplicate votes are resolved in favor of
the most recent valid vote.  Addresses and votes of all voters will
be published in the final voting results post.

The purpose of a Usenet vote is to determine the genuine interest of
persons who would read a proposed newsgroup.  Soliciting votes from
disinterested parties defeats this purpose.  Please do not distribute
this CFV.  If you must, direct people to the official CFV as posted
to news.announce.newgroups.  Distributing pre-marked or otherwise
edited copies of this CFV is generally considered to be vote fraud.
When in doubt, ask the votetaker.

HOW TO VOTE:

Extract the ballot from the CFV by deleting everything before and after
the "BEGINNING OF BALLOT" and "END OF BALLOT" lines.  Don't worry about
the spacing of the columns or any quote characters (">") that your
reply inserts.  Please, DO NOT send the entire CFV back to me!

Fill in the ballot as shown below.  Please provide your REAL NAME and
indicate your desired vote in the appropriate locations inside the ballot.

When finished, MAIL the ballot to: < voting@uvv.stanford.edu >
Just "replying" to this message should work, but check the "To:" line.

Examples of how to properly indicate your vote:

  [ YES     ]  example.yes.vote
  [ NO      ]  example.no.vote
  [ ABSTAIN ]  example.abstention
  [ CANCEL  ]  example.cancellation

DO NOT modify, alter or delete any information in this ballot!
If you do, the voting software will probably reject your ballot.

If these instructions are unclear, please consult the Introduction to
Usenet Voting or the Usenet Voting FAQ at http://www.stanford.edu/~neilc/uvv.

======== BEGINNING OF BALLOT: Delete everything before this line =======
.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| 2ND CALL FOR VOTES: soc.culture.turkish.moderated
| Official Usenet Voting Ballot <SCTM-0002> (Do not remove this line!)
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Please provide your real name, or your vote may be rejected.  Place
| ONLY your name (ie. do NOT include your e-mail address or any other
| information; ONLY your name) after the colon on the following line:

Voter name:

| Insert YES, NO, ABSTAIN, or CANCEL inside the brackets for each
| newsgroup listed below (do not delete the newsgroup name):

 Your Vote   Newsgroup
 ---------   -----------------------------------------------------------
[         ]  soc.culture.turkish.moderated (moderated)

======== END OF BALLOT: Delete everything after this line ==============

DISTRIBUTION:

Pointers directing readers to this CFV will be posted in these groups:

rec.travel.europe
rec.travel.asia
soc.religion.islam
soc.culture.pakistan.moderated
soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna

and in addition, to these mailing lists:

ANADOLU mailing list at MSU.EDU
Haber-Obek mailing list at Bilkent University
Uni-ALL mailing list at Bilkent University
Linux mailing list at Bilkent University
Inet-TR mailing list at METU
TRKNWS-L Turkish mailing list
Northwestern Turkish Student Association

soc.culture.turkish.moderated Acknowledgement Bounce List - No need to revote
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
lcs@NOSPAMzk3.dec.com                                               Larry Smith

This CFV was created with uvpq 1.0 (Aug 14 1997).
PQ datestamp: 970324

-- 
Voting address: voting@uvv.stanford.edu

From neilc@stanford.edu Tue Dec  9 13:31:44 1997
Path: news.isc.org!bounce-back
From: Neil Crellin <neilc@stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.kurdish,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast
Subject: RESULT: soc.culture.turkish.moderated passes 274:92
Followup-To: news.groups
Message-ID: <881702104.8909@isc.org>
References: <876361513.25904@isc.org> <876780302.12742@isc.org> <877374687.4792@isc.org> <878716156.15564@isc.org> <879625755.6500@isc.org>
Supersedes: <879625755.6500@isc.org>
Organization: Usenet Volunteer Votetakers
Approved: newgroups-request@isc.org
Archive-Name: soc.culture.turkish.moderated
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 21:15:05 GMT
Lines: 549
Xref: news.isc.org news.announce.newgroups:1010

                                RESULT
     moderated group soc.culture.turkish.moderated passes 274:92

There were 274 YES votes and 92 NO votes, for a total of 366 valid
votes.  There were 6 abstentions and 6 invalid ballots.

For a group 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 the group shortly
thereafter.

Newsgroups line:
soc.culture.turkish.moderated	Issues related to Turks/Turkey. (Moderated)

The voting period closed at 23:59:59 UTC, 26 Nov 1997.

This vote was conducted by a neutral third party.  Questions
about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent.

Proponent: Yusuf Pisan <y-pisan@nwu.edu>
Votetaker: Neil Crellin <neilc@stanford.edu>

RATIONALE: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

Currently, there is a specific newsgroup on the Internet
soc.culture.turkish (SCT) which is the only discussion group for
issues relating to Turkey.  While SCT has enjoyed a large group
of participants, the quality of articles has changed in the last
couple of years:

        * Large amount of crossposting to other soc.culture.*
newsgroups.  Unfortunately, the cross-posting tends to create
inter-cultural conflict rather than inter-cultural understanding.
This is disruptive not only to soc.culture.turkish but to the
other groups (approximately 25% of articles are crossposted to
more than 3 newsgroups).

        * An increased hostility within SCT and members of other
groups which has created an increase in name calling and use of
disposable accounts to spread hatred.

        * Approximately 20% of articles have less than 1/3
original text as a result of increased hostility.

        * Almost all users who have posted to SCT have had public
insults against them which has resulted in a lot of readers to
stay quiet or leave.

        * The heavy traffic on SCT combined with people swearing
at each other makes it difficult to find the original articles.

        * Many readers have chosen to leave SCT due to increased
hostility and lack of relevant articles about Turkey and Turks.
soc.culture.turkish.moderated will once again offer a civilized
place of discussion and attract past users as well as new users.

The name chosen for this group is soc.culture.turkish.moderated,
which is reflects its proposed content and its origins.  This
newsgroup is not intended to replace soc.culture.turkish.
soc.culture.turkish will remain as an unmoderated forum. Instead,
soc.culture.turkish.moderated will offer an alternative, less
hostile area for discussion.  I and the subscribers feel that a
moderated newsgroup is necessary to keep the peace and ensure
that articles make at least a good faith attempt to obey the
charter rules.

CHARTER: soc.culture.turkish.moderated

This group would encourage posting of material relating to Turks
and Turkey (Turkiye).  All articles which in some way relates to
Turkey or Turks will be welcome in this group.  Legitimate topics
include but are not limited to: Turkish language, history,
politics, universities, cultural centers, announcement of related
web pages and mailing lists, places to visit in Turkey, current
and past leaders of Turkey as well as problems and concerns of
Turks living inside or outside of Turkey.

Articles will be rejected if they fall into any of the categories
below:

        * Articles that are not related in any way to Turkey or Turks.

        * Chain letters, pyramid schemes, mass non-Turkey related
advertisement, "Adult" type material, binary or multipart
postings (PGP signatures and small binaries related to
authentication are OK)

        * Articles including insults, swear words or explicit
threats to individuals or groups

        * Duplicate postings or postings that qualify as
"substantively equal" according to the current spam cancel
guidelines

        * Articles with less than 1/3 new material or less than 3
lines of original text.

        * Articles crossposted to more than 5 newsgroups.

        * Crossposted articles that do not have a "Followup-To:"
header.  The Followup-To header must be present for all
crossposted articles and must contain "poster" or a maximum of 3
newsgroups indicating which newsgroup(s) further discussion
should take place.

        * Articles crossposted to groups not related to Turkey or
the current subject (such as crossposts to alt.sex, or misc.test)

        * Ads must be clearly labeled as "[AD]" or "[REKLAM]" in
the beginning of the subject line, must be related to Turkey in
some way and cannot be posted more than once every 2 months.

All articles that are related to Turkey or Turks will be welcome.
No article will be rejected based on content or subject unless
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soc.culture.turkish.moderated Final Voter list

Voted YES
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Adem.Ugur@uibk.ac.at                                                 Adem Ugur
Demir.Adnan.A@bhp.com.au                                           Adnan Demir
cic_library@netinfo.com.au                                           John Wood
meskinaz@soh.nsw.gov.au                                          Meir Eskinazi
Mehman.Tatliyev@savechildren.org.az                            Mehman Tatliyev
pin00033.nospam@ping.be                                          Stefane Dowet
parlatany@aecl.ca                                              Yuksel Parlatan
ai132@chebucto.ns.ca                                               Joanne Cook
paxil@inorth.on.ca                                              Trevor Tymchuk
maksu@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca                                           Murat AKSU
leylek@cc.UManitoba.CA                                            Ahmet Leylek
jmcgarry@uoguelph.ca                                             James McGarry
ssbalcis@lig.di.epfl.ch                                         Selim Balcisoy
hbc@turk.ch                                                   Hasan Baha CAYIR
erdaly@public.cc.jl.cn                                        Erdal Yazicioglu
ichudov@algebra.com                                                Igor Chudov
andy@andysaudio.com                                          Andrew C. Ohnstad
tamer@antares-iti.com                                            Tamer Avcilar
ersoy@antisocial.com                                                     ersoy
Ikoniclast@aol.com                                            Monica Gallagher
JOTEZDUYAR@aol.com                                       DR. HASAN T. TEZDUYAR
ZeynoKiz@aol.com                                                Zeynep Leffler
Eren_Kotan@apple.com                                                Eren Kotan
okandama@artisoft.com                                            Ozan Kandamar
sdemir@bechtel.com                                               Siddika Demir
khan@best.com                                                     Sharaaz Khan
jdg@but-i-dont-like-spam.boxmail.com                           John David Galt
r.l.s@btinternet.com                                             Recep L Sahin
sens@ccia.com                                                         SEAN SEN
102572.1375@compuserve.com                                    Anastasia Mensah
75403.2004@compuserve.com                                     Jayhun Mollazade
masters@mail.deltanet.com                                    Nathan C. Masters
aydin@depsa.com                                               Aydin Yesildirek
mergener@dmrtrecom.com                                           Metin Ergener
oksay@erols.com                                                    Nuray Oksay
Iskender.Agi@exar.com                                             Iskender Agi
izib@geocities.com                                        &nbsp; Izi Behar</P>
umit.kumcuoglu@gs.com                                           Umit Kumcuoglu
nazli@home.com                                                 Nazli McDonnell
daniel_rybowski@hotmail.com                                    Daniel Rybowski
maricarov@hotmail.com                                  Mohamed Abdulla Maricar
oezdil@hotmail.com                                                Erkan Oezdil
tevfikb@hotmail.com                                                   Tevfik B
TUELIN_BEYAZ@HP-Germany-om5.om.hp.com                         Arzu Tulin Beyaz
ozlemd@au1.ibm.com                                             Ozlem Dayanikli
AErgeneman@icfkaiser.com                                        Ayca Ergeneman
mac@libtech.com                                                   Mehmet Cirit
Tetik.Selda@menlolog.com                                           SELDA TETIK
murat@mersina.com                                                 Murat Yashin
captcem@msn.com                                                      Cem Askin
olav@viking.mv.com                                             Olav Nieuwejaar
Gunhan_Kildiran@el.nec.com                                     Gunhan Kildiran
hhfarhi@ix.netcom.com                                              Henri Farhi
todma@ix.netcom.com                                 Ruqayyah Mumina Abdul-Alim
franck@dial.oleane.com                                           Franck Brunel
yigitus@openix.com                                         Yigit Kavurmacioglu
djones@panix.com                                                   David Jones
tindall@panix.com                                                Bruce Tindall
inanli.h@pg.com                                                   Harun Inanli
TDRT02A@prodigy.com                                            Judith A. Sylte
onur@promodel.com                                              ONUR DULGEROGLU
softekin@raex.com                                             Alptekin Aydogan
cafemre@rancomp.com                                                 Eray Aslan
agunay@rocketmail.com                                              Burak Gunay
ovutmen@islamabad.wireline.slb.com                               Nihat Ovutmen
tayfun@slmsoft.com                                                  Tayfun Can
cedmonds@superonline.com                                         Colin Edmonds
omercan@superonline.com                                        Omer C Demirtas
arielle@taronga.com                                         Stephanie da Silva
ozan@technologist.com                                               Ozan Varol
Turk@ti.com                                                     Michael Corbin
levent@turknet.com                                                Levent Aksoy
oktay@ultranet.com                                                Oktay Bender
ak@smtpgwy.roadnet.ups.com                                        ALP KAYABASI
ataoguz@writeme.com                                               Suha Ataoguz
gunes@yagosys.com                                                  Gunes Aybay
urgup@yahoo.com                                                     Faik Yanki
M.MERLIN@TBX.berlinet.de                                        Maurice Merlin
FRALSOEQP@DLH.DE                                                  Frank Seidel
mue@gsf.de                                                    Bernhard Muenzer
tolgaeg@metronet.de                                              Tolga Egilmez
salihag@mppmu.mpg.de                                           Denis Salihagic
naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de                                Christian Weisgerber
hayati@berlin.snafu.de                                       Hayati Boyacioglu
taner@cadlab.tu-berlin.de                                             H. Taner
polzer@uran.informatik.uni-bonn.de                                   A. Polzer
puersuen@stud.uni-frankfurt.de                                    YANKI PURSUN
myth@diku.dk                                                       Martin Koch
mcetin@acadia.bu.edu                                              Mujdat Cetin
rnomak@chem.bu.edu                                                  RANA NOMAK
erol@cns.bu.edu                                                     Erol Sahin
sadik@cs.bu.edu                                                   Sadik Tokgoz
htverdi@bu.edu                                              Huseyin Tanriverdi
benhur@et.byu.edu                                                    Umit Ocak
moh@galcit.caltech.edu                                    Mohammad Reza Gharib
Delen@Colorado.EDU                                                  Nuri Delen
christa@spot.colorado.edu                                      Amy Christensen
greens@spot.colorado.edu                                        Sally E. Green
youngerg@spot.colorado.edu                                        Greg Younger
matt@astro.columbia.edu                                   Orkan Mehmet Umurhan
ms332@columbia.edu                                             murat selamoglu
sss31@columbia.edu                                              Sadi Seferoglu
hbbusb16@email.csun.edu                                       Perihan Soylemez
sbaran@seaccc.sccd.ctc.edu                                         Sevgi Baran
sg95sj8e@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu                                     Mehmet Hinis
ei@acpub.duke.edu                                                   Evrim Icoz
tosun@fiu.edu                                                  Sabri Tosunoglu
hh299@cleveland.Freenet.Edu                                     Jim Baranovich
mkk6821@garnet.acns.fsu.edu                                    Mesut Kovankaya
uysal@ee.gannon.edu                                                 Arif Uysal
gs01zan@panther.Gsu.EDU                                           Zaur Nazarly
pinar@bwh.harvard.edu                                   Hale Pinar Zengingonul
yiginiz@charlie.cns.iit.edu                                   Nizamettin Yigit
aonalan@indiana.edu                                                 Alp Onalan
belturan@indiana.edu                                            BURHAN ELTURAN
ecakirog@indiana.edu                                          Erdinc Cakiroglu
gkilic@indiana.edu                                          Gulsen Bagci Kilic
kursat@indiana.edu                                             Kursat Cagiltay
rtabanli@coeds.eng.miami.edu                                  R. Murat Tabanli
kbuyukat@mail.coin.missouri.edu                               Kaya Buyukataman
pheonix@MIT.EDU                                                Bilal A. Bhutta
lacinfig@egr.msu.edu                                               Figen Lacin
akbulut@math.msu.edu                                            Selman Akbulut
bulentb@math.msu.edu                                      Bulent Buyukbozkirli
celikcan@pilot.msu.edu                                             CANAN CELIK
irmakelm@pilot.msu.edu                                             Elmas Irmak
karaevli@pilot.msu.edu                                           AYSE KARAEVLI
salursem@pilot.msu.edu                                              SEMA SALUR
seckinel@pilot.msu.edu                                            Elif  SECKIN
bennett@unity.ncsu.edu                                           Seyma Bennett
ergul@ccs.neu.edu                                                  Ayhan Ergul
esozer@coe.neu.edu                                           Ethem Mutlu Sozer
cok134@nwu.edu                                                     Cagla Okten
gordon@ils.nwu.edu                                            Andrew S. Gordon
meryl@spd-13.ils.nwu.edu                                         Meryl McQueen
y-pisan@nwu.edu                                                    Yusuf Pisan
TOP@er6s1.eng.ohio-state.edu                                        SERMIN TOP
ucar_t@hcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu                                     Tamer Ucar
hi753085@oak.cats.ohiou.edu                                         Halil ISIK
st638685@oak.cats.ohiou.edu                                   Selahattin Turan
cobanog@okstate.edu                                            Cihan Cobanoglu
ozadali.1@osu.edu                                               Ferhan Ozadali
akin@emp.pdx.edu                                                     Akin Uslu
ecevik@phoenix.Princeton.EDU                                 Emrah Cevik-Pamuk
ucer@ee.rochester.edu                                            K. Burak Ucer
canyurt@rpi.edu                                                  Olcay Canyurt
sibel@cs.rpi.edu                                                   Sibel Adali
alatan@ipl.rpi.edu                                             A. Aydin Alatan
tonguc@av.rutgers.edu                                          Tonguc Unluyurt
oksay@eden.rutgers.edu                                             Fatih Oksay
ckulaksi@nbcs.rutgers.edu                                       Cosar Kulaksiz
ergeneru@nbcs.rutgers.edu                                         Ufuk Ergener
ibtanri@eniac.ac.siue.edu                                    Menguc Tanriseven
itanris@siue.edu                                            Ibrahim Tanriseven
aktuglu@seas.smu.edu                                            Tevfik AKTUGLU
bri@condor.sccs.swarthmore.edu                                 Brian O'Connell
gaber@condor.sccs.swarthmore.edu                    Gabriel Benjamin-Fernandez
cisik@syr.edu                                                         Can Isik
burchanb@cs.tamu.edu                                     Osman Burchan Bayazit
ergun@viz.tamu.edu                                               Ergun Akleman
paustin@astro.ocis.temple.edu                                       Pam Austin
rick@bcm.tmc.edu                                                Richard Miller
vildan@eecs.tufts.edu                                        Vildan Tanriverdi
kanuni@math1.math.uconn.edu                                        Muge Kanuni
kursad@pacific.ece.ucsb.edu                                   Kursad Kiziloglu
akansel@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu                                     Mehmet Akansel
mamedov@cas.umass.edu                                         Nazim A. Mamedov
fuy1@gl.umbc.edu                                                    Francis Uy
ek39@umail.umd.edu                                              Erjan Kurbanov
emre_ergungor@ccmail.bus.umich.edu                               Emre Ergungor
pamir@cochrane.bus.umich.edu                                         Can Pamir
tayfun@engin.umich.edu                                          Tayfun Ozdemir
tur@engin.umich.edu                                                  Yahya Tur
ulsoy@engin.umich.edu                                           A. Galip Ulsoy
lakyurek@mmg2.im.med.umich.edu                               M. Levent Akyurek
acar@ee.umr.edu                                                        L. Acar
cstone@math.unm.edu                                                Chris Stone
yavuz@gladstone.uoregon.edu                                        Yavuz Erdun
goktas@grip.cis.upenn.edu                                          Faik Goktas
durduran@sas.upenn.edu                                         Turgut Durduran
asen@almaak.usc.edu                                                  Alper Sen
oner@paris.usc.edu                                                  Koray Oner
baguirov@scf-fs.usc.edu                                          Adil Baguirov
ozyurt@eng.usf.edu                                        Ibrahim Burak Ozyurt
ozdemir@ece.utexas.edu                                           Caner Ozdemir
aksoy@george.ee.washington.edu                                     Selim Aksoy
rufinus@mbe.ece.wisc.edu                                             J Rufinus
eam@serv01.rpi.ses.alcatel.es                                 Erinc Ali Mentes
lm21hb8@serv09.rpi.ses.alcatel.es                                  Ulku Ozakin
jpc@drum.msfc.nasa.gov                                         J. Porter Clark
kutlug@it-tokyo.co.jp                                      Murat Gokhan KUTLUG
sbogut@acadiacom.net                                               Sukru Bogut
chris@aimnet.net                                   Christopher Robin Zimmerman
ercument@ata.net                                              Ercument Cetiner
aseden@worldnet.att.net                                        Ali Munif SEDEN
kryopak@worldnet.att.net                                   Charlie Bartholomew
R.Ongun@worldnet.att.net                                           REFIK ONGUN
cran@bellsouth.net                                                       Henry
lasch@buffnet.net                                                   Paul Lasch
ilhami@earthlink.net                                          Ilhami Topaloglu
oguz@rift.foo.net                                                  Oguz Yetkin
gloonie@ibm.net                                              Glenn R. Williams
haydenis@idt.net                                                 Denis Hayward
jromai19@idt.net                                               Dr. Jim Romaine
ozkany@idt.net                                                   Ozkan Yavasal
oguzhan@iserv.net                                              Oguzhan  ALICLI
tonyb@null.net                                                    Tony Basoglu
maxbuten@op.net                                                      Max Buten
af137@torfree.net                                                       al aab
fatih.altay@usa.net                                                Fatih Altay
dunya-hafta@usa.net                                               Dogan Pursun
gulnur@usa.net                                                      Gulnur Rud
carlo.marchesi@usa.net                                          Carlo Marchesi
ozbay@wizard.net                                                   Ilbay Ozbay
mehemmet.mihciokur@tip.nl                                   Mehemmet Mihciokur
Mete.Pamir@isp.uib.no                                               Mete Pamir
aboelaze@squ.edu.om                                           Mokhtar Aboelaze
arisian@eyrie.org                                                  Bruce Baugh
hfung@lerami.lerctr.org                                              Hank Fung
bobc@rain.org                                                  Bob Christensen
ozerk@corbina.ru                                                   Ozerk Alpay
pegast@dol.ru                                                          <font =
bagirov@sunhe.jinr.ru                                  Bagirov Adil Mamed oglu
hniska@algonet.se                                                  Helge Niska
soydanh@egenet.com.tr                                             Halit Soydan
gursug@koc.com.tr                                                  Gursu Gulcu
bahrio@netas.com.tr                                             Bahri OKUROGLU
ibrahim@netas.com.tr                                         ibrahim oral emul
mturan@netone.com.tr                                              Mehmet Turan
DAGDELENT@tskb.com.tr                                          Turgut Dagdelen
Bedriye.Oncu@pallas.dialup.ankara.edu.tr                          Bedriye Oncu
Ertugrul.Akcaoglu@law.ankara.edu.tr                          Ertugrul Akcaoglu
akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR                                             Mustafa Akgul
akpinar@Bilkent.EDU.TR                                          Kursad Akpinar
agirseve@boun.edu.tr                                            Onur Agirseven
bariskan@boun.edu.tr                                            Baris Bariskan
bowker@boun.edu.tr                                                  Mim Bowker
caglayan@boun.edu.tr                                          M. UFUK CAGLAYAN
camlider@boun.edu.tr                                            Arzu CAMLIDERE
cemgil@boun.edu.tr                                           Ali Taylan Cemgil
alimoglu@cmpe.boun.edu.tr                                       Fevzi Alimoglu
esengamz@boun.edu.tr                                                Gamze Esen
koprulu@boun.edu.tr                                              Deniz Koprulu
salursev@boun.edu.tr                                               Sevil Salur
TUMER@benet.emu.edu.tr                                           Mustafa TUMER
mirza@alpha.bim.gantep.edu.tr                                       Rauf Mirza
gokcol@sariyer.cc.itu.edu.tr                                      Orhan Gokcol
syilmaz@sariyer.cc.itu.edu.tr                                      Suat YILMAZ
fisun@knidos.cc.metu.edu.tr                                        Fisun Guven
e066790@orca.cc.metu.edu.tr                                         Aysel Ozel
bozkus@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr                                     Zafer Bozkus
darama@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr                                     YAKUP DARAMA
hvural@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr                                    Huseyin VURAL
koksalan@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr                                 Murat Koksalan
nergis@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr                                  Nergis Cagiltay
ozyar@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr                                   M. Serhat Ozyar
oguztuzn@ceng.metu.edu.tr                                      Halit Oguztuzun
mehmet@soli.ims.metu.edu.tr                                       Mehmet Yayla
eakaltun@mfa.gov.tr                                              Erkan Akaltun
MBMUSAYEV@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw
eek@eng.cam.ac.uk                                                  E. Kuruoglu
MOzbilgin@chelt.ac.uk                                           Fatih Ozbilgin
konstant@dai.ed.ac.uk                                 Stasinos Konstantopoulos
hapayd@essex.ac.uk                                               Halil Apaydin
m.tunca@lancaster.ac.uk                                          MUSTAFA TUNCA
lawhd@lucs-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk                                 Huseyin Demir
R.Capan@sheffield.ac.uk                                            Rifat Capan
A.E.Karaman@sheffield.ac.uk                                      A. E. Karaman
uccaaea@ucl.ac.uk                                                   Abil Aliev
philh@vision25.demon.co.uk                                         Philip Hunt
dmillen@globalnet.co.uk                                           David Millen
themos@nag.co.uk                                                 Themos Tsikas
htnbetkf@netcomuk.co.uk                                            Haluk Savas
TOCAL@CO.BROWARD.FL.US                                             TARKAN OCAL

Voted NO
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chetin@ozemail.com.au                                                    Cetin
serdar@rmit.EDU.AU                                               Serdar Boztas
cs@matilda.vut.edu.au                                             Coskun Susoy
jasmine@fl.net.au                                               Jasmine Taylor
chriseb@nortel.ca                                               Chris Ebenezer
yavuz@nortel.ca                                                    Yavuz Onder
jeffery.hunt@ns.sympatico.ca                                   Jeffery D. Hunt
calabres@chass.utoronto.ca                                         T.Calabrese
gbacon@adtran.com                                                   Greg Bacon
azadi97@aol.com                                                        Azadi97
BaturhanA@aol.com                                              Baturhan Arslan
MuratA9@aol.com                                                   Murat Ataman
Ozarpaci@aol.com                                                 Ebru Ozarpaci
SunTaurus3@aol.com                                                 Ayca Unuvar
Tiger62237@aol.com                                               Hakan Alpoglu
kimdv@best.com                                                    Kim DeVaughn
stainles@bga.com                                                  Dwight Brown
destan@blkbox.com                                                 davut destan
erol@cmq.com                                                       EROL KESKIN
101374.1755@compuserve.com                                             TAMTURK
ybg@connix.com                                                    Yusuf Gursey
booda@datasync.com                                             Martin H. Booda
lcs@NOSPAMzk3.dec.com                                              Larry Smith
mduman@exim-tr.com                                            Murat Emre Duman
capitaljo@fexnet.com                                             Jodie Ballast
flyinfilipino@hotmail.com                                     Carson de Castro
mplong@hotmail.com                                                 Max P. Long
d@idiom.com                                                                  d
djed@juno.com                                             Geronimo Mockingbird
unruh@lusions.com                                              Taylor Renneman
chuckhoffmann@mindspring.com                                    Chuck Hoffmann
dougob@ix.netcom.com                                              Doug O'Brien
mulligan@orionsys.com
butterscotch@phayze.com                                          Bumpo Lawless
varnish@phil-collins.com                                    Rembrandt Sullivan
zebik@psicorps.com                                               Gregory Zebik
felonyphil@rocketmail.com                                          Phil Oliver
malinov@rocketmail.com                                          Plamen Malinov
roddyrodrun@rodrun.com                                         Rodrun Beltaine
wood45@selin.com                                                    Jack Selin
zmz@starplace.com                                              Zachary Zoeltch
David.Robinson@Eng.Sun.COM                                      David Robinson
haldun@micro.ti.com                                            Haldun Haznedar
scott@wwwebworld.com                                               Scott Smith
_bedwarm@yahoo.com                            Robert Manion (Bobby Tendinitis)
jackmccoy@yahoo.com                                                 Jack McCoy
Ekkehard.Uthke@gmx.de                                           Ekkehard Uthke
spbis@sbs.de                                                        Haluk Okur
murata@creighton.edu                                     M. Murat Albayrakoglu
soguz@iupui.edu                                                         s oguz
holberm1@alpha.lasalle.edu                                        Marc Holbert
FGUDER@wpo.it.luc.edu                                              Faruk Guder
mestanba@martin.luther.edu                                Baris Mestanogullari
17D5057@ACAD.MC3.EDU                                          Jones McKutcheon
patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu                                       Patrick J. LoPresti
kayacier@expert.cc.purdue.edu                                   Ahmed Kayacier
jkramer1@swarthmore.edu                                          Joshua Kramer
bijan@ttacs1.ttu.edu                                              Bijan Eliasi
nazar@ttacs1.ttu.edu                                             Nazar Elkarim
z0a97@ttacs1.ttu.edu                                          Nichole  Jackson
zld21@ttacs1.ttu.edu                                             Eugene Kobzar
zwd92@ttacs1.ttu.edu                                               Olga Kobzar
hbasagaoglu@ucdavis.edu                                       Hakan Basagaoglu
akgul@eecis.udel.edu                                         Yusuf Sinan Akgul
yenen@unlinfo.unl.edu                                              Orhan Yenen
epir@jove.acs.unt.edu                                                Ebru Epir
ig00@jove.acs.unt.edu                                               Burak Epir
ahm@cbmi.upmc.edu                                                 Ahmad Hashem
fethiye@cae.uwm.edu                                            Fethiye Akbulut
7874@miller.cs.uwm.edu                                          Sevgi Adiguzel
sarant@innet.lu                                               Nikos Sarantakos
nevzat@accesscom.net                                            NEVZAT AKDEMIR
MX-RACER@worldnet.att.net                                       Levent Gokturk
kuchouk@cyberport.net                                               Debra Cook
murat@cyberport.net                                          Murat Kalinyaprak
kfamily@mail.enter.net                                             Phil Thomas
trumbore@enter.net                                                    Trumbore
ellis@ftel.net                                                      Rick Ellis
ilham@ibm.net                                                     Ilham Dilman
nevilo@ibm.net                                                    Nevit Dilman
margoc@ids.net                                                Margaret Chevian
marquez@pacbell.net                                              Aaron Marquez
red@rahul.net                                                              Red
stanczak@softhome.net                                          Martin Stanczak
ergenekon@usa.net                                                  Gurhan Ozen
sico@msh.xs4all.nl                                                 Sico Bruins
tabe@ozgurluk.xs4all.nl                                          Mahir Korkmaz
tlawson@amug.org                                                Todd C. Lawson
ergin@farmakom.com.tr                                            Ergin Sehirli
sguncer@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr                                    Selim Guncer
sgwm@maitreya.demon.co.uk                                                 sgwm
argyros.argyrou@ukonline.co.uk                          Argyros George Argyrou

Abstained
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cza@cc.bellcore.com                                               Cengiz Akgun
guymacon@deltanet.com                                                Guy Macon
kpascoe@ford.com                                                  Kathy Pascoe
curtis_whalen@hotmail.com                               Curtis [Jewell] Whalen
935195N@knotes.kodak.com                                          Joshua Zalen
hkt@wwa.com                                                   Henrietta Thomas

Invalid votes
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colistra@footballer.com                                        Joseph Colistra
    ! Forgery apparently from alpha.lasalle.edu
saitta@nettaxi.com                                           Michael J. Saitta
    ! Invalidated for vote fraud - distribution of preformatted ballot on web
justinga@socrates.Berkeley.EDU                                  Justin Gardner
    ! Forgery apparently from alpha.lasalle.edu
_info_@ncc1701a.Rutgers.EDU                                     Joseph Rutgers
    ! Ineligible address, fake name, based on preformatted ballot distribution
bedwarm@mail.dotcom.fr                                           Robert Manion
    ! Invalid address
msoysal@mistik.express.net                                 Mustafa Soysal MS57
    ! Usenet redistribution of CFV, vote from CFV redistribution


-- 
Neil Crellin, UVV <neilc@stanford.edu>

