REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
unmoderated group humanities.language.sanskrit
This is a formal Request For Discussion on the creation of a new
worldwide UseNet newsgroup, humanities.language.sanskrit.
Proponents: HGroo…@Qualitas.com (Henry Groover)
Shrisha….@launchpad.unc.edu (Shrisha Rao)
Mentor: mcc…@best.com (Todd Michel McComb)
Newsgroups line:
humanities.language.sanskrit The Sanskrit language and related topics.
RATIONALE: humanities.language.sanskrit
Sanskrit is an Indo-European language of ancient origins, like Latin,
ancient Greek, and Persian. Unlike many other ancient languages, however,
it has had an unbroken tradition of both literary and everyday usage,
lasting right up to the present day.
A study of Sanskrit is very useful for those interested in understanding
Hinduism; it is also important to those who study Paninian linguistics,
Vedanta, Indology, the development of Indo-European languages and
cultures, etc. Besides all these, of course, Sanskrit has a vast body of
prose, poetry, drama, and music, of genuine literary worth, that is of
much interest to many scholars and amateurs.
There exists a Sanskrit e-mail discussion group that generates a fairly
high volume of messages — 50+ per day — and has in excess of 300 members
who are potential readers of such a newsgroup. It may also be safely
assumed that there are others not on the list who would also like to see
such a newsgroup come about.
CHARTER: humanities.language.sanskrit
The newsgroup humanities.language.sanskrit will be a forum devoted to the
discussion of all matters pertaining to the formal or informal study of
Sanskrit, both as a literary and scriptural language, and also as a
language for common use. The newsgroup will not be solely for those
already knowledgeable about Sanskrit, but will also give those interested
in it an opportunity to learn by interaction. While there will be no
restriction on the range of Sanskrit-related topics allowed, those that
have nothing to do either with Sanskrit itself, or with issues in the
study of Sanskrit, will be strongly discouraged.
END CHARTER.
PROCEDURE:
The posting of this RFD initiates a discussion of at least three weeks’
(21 days’) duration. The discussion is restricted to news.groups only;
do not discuss this on other newsgroups. At the end of that time, a
neutral party, the Usenet Volunteer Votetakers (UVV) will post a Call
For Votes (CFV) containing detailed instructions. Do not confuse this
RFD with a CFV; the voting will not commence until later.
DISTRIBUTION:
This RFD is cross-posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, soc.culture.indian,
soc.culture.german, alt.religion.vaisnava, sci.lang, humanities.misc
This message will also be sent to the following mailing lists after
the RFD has appeared in news.announce.newgroups.
1. Sanskrit mailing list <sansk…@keshav.informix.com>
2. Indology mailing list <indol…@liverpool.ac.uk>
3. NLPAsia-L mailing list <nlpasi…@nectec.or.th>
4. Indo-European list <INDOEUROPEA…@cornell.edu>
Follow-ups have been directed to news.groups. Please honor that, and
keep the discussion to news.groups only.
== end ==
FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
unmoderated group humanities.language.sanskrit
Newsgroups line:
humanities.language.sanskrit The Sanskrit language and related topics.
Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 4 Dec 1995.
This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. Questions
about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent.
Proponent: Shrisha Rao <Shrisha….@launchpad.unc.edu>
Proponent: Henry Groover <HGroo…@Qualitas.com>
Mentor: Todd Michel McComb <mcc…@best.com>
Votetaker: Steve Bonine <s…@ntrs.com>
RATIONALE: humanities.language.sanskrit
Sanskrit is an Indo-European language of ancient origins, like Latin,
ancient Greek, and Persian. Unlike many other ancient languages, however,
it has had an unbroken tradition of both literary and everyday usage,
lasting right up to the present day.
A study of Sanskrit is very useful for those interested in understanding
Hinduism; it is also important to those who study Paninian linguistics,
Vedanta, Indology, the development of Indo-European languages and
cultures, etc. Besides all these, of course, Sanskrit has a vast body of
prose, poetry, drama, and music, of genuine literary worth, that is of
much interest to many scholars and amateurs.
There used to be a Sanskrit e-mail discussion group that generated a high
enough volume of messages to cause it to be shut down because of the
excessive load it was creating on its host system. The list had about 380
members who are potential readers of such a newsgroup; it may also be
safely assumed that there are others who were not on the list, but would
also like to see such a newsgroup come about.
CHARTER: humanities.language.sanskrit
The newsgroup humanities.language.sanskrit will be a forum devoted to the
discussion of all matters pertaining to the formal or informal study of
Sanskrit, both as a literary and scriptural language, and also as a
language for common use. The newsgroup will not be solely for those
already knowledgeable about Sanskrit, but will also give those interested
in it an opportunity to learn by interaction. While there will be no
restriction on the range of Sanskrit-related topics allowed, those that
have nothing to do either with Sanskrit itself, or with issues in the
study of Sanskrit, will be strongly discouraged.
END CHARTER.
HOW TO VOTE:
You should send E-MAIL (posts to a newsgroup are invalid) to:
vot…@ntrs.com
Check the address before you mail your vote. Your mail message must contain
one and only one of the following vote statements for each group:
I vote YES on humanities.language.sanskrit
I vote NO on humanities.language.sanskrit
You can also vote ABSTAIN or CANCEL. These votes are not counted in the
results, and CANCEL removes your name from the vote listing in the result.
Names are required for this vote. The counting software will extract your name
from the mail message if your mailer is properly configured; if your mail
software does not indicate your real name, you must include the following
statement and add your name (on the same line).
Voter name:
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.
If you wish to change your vote, simply vote again from the same account;
duplicate votes are resolved in favor of the most recent vote.
THIS IS NOT A SECRET VOTE. Names, addresses, and votes will be published in
a RESULTS article in the same newsgroups in which this CFV appears.
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 edited copies of this CFV is vote fraud. When in
doubt, ask the votetaker.
Standard Guidelines for voting apply. One person, one vote. Votes must be
mailed directly from the voter to the votetaker. Anonymous, forwarded or proxy
votes are not valid. Votes mailed by WWW servers are considered to be
anonymous votes.
DISTRIBUTION:
In addition to the groups named in the Newsgroups: header, the CFV
and the eventual RESULT posts will be mailed to the mailing lists:
Sanskrit mailing list sansk…@cs.utah.edu
Indology mailing list indol…@liverpool.ac.uk
NLPAsia-L mailing list nlpasi…@nectec.or.th
Indo-European list INDOEUROPEA…@cornell.edu
LAST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
unmoderated group humanities.language.sanskrit
Newsgroups line:
humanities.language.sanskrit The Sanskrit language and related topics.
Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 4 Dec 1995.
This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party. Questions
about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent.
Proponent: Shrisha Rao <Shrisha….@launchpad.unc.edu>
Proponent: Henry Groover <HGroo…@Qualitas.com>
Mentor: Todd Michel McComb <mcc…@best.com>
Votetaker: Steve Bonine <s…@ntrs.com>
RATIONALE: humanities.language.sanskrit
Sanskrit is an Indo-European language of ancient origins, like Latin,
ancient Greek, and Persian. Unlike many other ancient languages, however,
it has had an unbroken tradition of both literary and everyday usage,
lasting right up to the present day.
A study of Sanskrit is very useful for those interested in understanding
Hinduism; it is also important to those who study Paninian linguistics,
Vedanta, Indology, the development of Indo-European languages and
cultures, etc. Besides all these, of course, Sanskrit has a vast body of
prose, poetry, drama, and music, of genuine literary worth, that is of
much interest to many scholars and amateurs.
There used to be a Sanskrit e-mail discussion group that generated a high
enough volume of messages to cause it to be shut down because of the
excessive load it was creating on its host system. The list had about 380
members who are potential readers of such a newsgroup; it may also be
safely assumed that there are others who were not on the list, but would
also like to see such a newsgroup come about.
CHARTER: humanities.language.sanskrit
The newsgroup humanities.language.sanskrit will be a forum devoted to the
discussion of all matters pertaining to the formal or informal study of
Sanskrit, both as a literary and scriptural language, and also as a
language for common use. The newsgroup will not be solely for those
already knowledgeable about Sanskrit, but will also give those interested
in it an opportunity to learn by interaction. While there will be no
restriction on the range of Sanskrit-related topics allowed, those that
have nothing to do either with Sanskrit itself, or with issues in the
study of Sanskrit, will be strongly discouraged.
END CHARTER.
HOW TO VOTE:
You should send E-MAIL (posts to a newsgroup are invalid) to:
vot…@ntrs.com
Check the address before you mail your vote. Your mail message must contain
one and only one of the following vote statements for each group:
I vote YES on humanities.language.sanskrit
I vote NO on humanities.language.sanskrit
You can also vote ABSTAIN or CANCEL. These votes are not counted in the
results, and CANCEL removes your name from the vote listing in the result.
Names are required for this vote. The counting software will extract your name
from the mail message if your mailer is properly configured; if your mail
software does not indicate your real name, you must include the following
statement and add your name (on the same line).
Voter name:
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.
If you wish to change your vote, simply vote again from the same account;
duplicate votes are resolved in favor of the most recent vote.
THIS IS NOT A SECRET VOTE. Names, addresses, and votes will be published in
a RESULTS article in the same newsgroups in which this CFV appears.
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 edited copies of this CFV is vote fraud. When in
doubt, ask the votetaker.
Standard Guidelines for voting apply. One person, one vote. Votes must be
mailed directly from the voter to the votetaker. Anonymous, forwarded or proxy
votes are not valid. Votes mailed by WWW servers are considered to be
anonymous votes.
DISTRIBUTION:
In addition to the groups named in the Newsgroups: header, the first CFV
and the eventual RESULT posts will be mailed to the mailing lists:
Sanskrit mailing list sansk…@cs.utah.edu
Indology mailing list indol…@liverpool.ac.uk
NLPAsia-L mailing list nlpasi…@nectec.or.th
Indo-European list INDOEUROPEA…@cornell.edu
humanities.language.sanskrit Bounce List – No need to revote
——————————————————————————
pr…@ford.com Prashant Rao
sreng…@ford.com Sampath Rengarajan
sxs7…@njit.edu Ram Prasadu
RESULT
unmoderated group humanities.language.sanskrit passes 369:24
There were 369 YES votes and 24 NO votes, for a total of 393 valid votes.
There was 1 abstain and 16 invalid ballots.
For group passage, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all valid (YES and NO)
votes. There also must be at least 100 more YES votes than NO votes.
There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted. If no
serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the moderator of
news.announce.newgroups will create the group shortly thereafter.
Newsgroups line:
humanities.language.sanskrit The Sanskrit language and related topics.
Voting closed at 23:59:59 UTC, 4 Dec 1995.
This vote was conducted by a neutral third party. Questions
about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent.
Proponent: Shrisha Rao <Shrisha….@launchpad.unc.edu>
Proponent: Henry Groover <HGroo…@Qualitas.com>
Mentor: Todd Michel McComb <mcc…@best.com>
Votetaker: Steve Bonine <s…@ntrs.com>
RATIONALE: humanities.language.sanskrit
Sanskrit is an Indo-European language of ancient origins, like Latin,
ancient Greek, and Persian. Unlike many other ancient languages, however,
it has had an unbroken tradition of both literary and everyday usage,
lasting right up to the present day.
A study of Sanskrit is very useful for those interested in understanding
Hinduism; it is also important to those who study Paninian linguistics,
Vedanta, Indology, the development of Indo-European languages and
cultures, etc. Besides all these, of course, Sanskrit has a vast body of
prose, poetry, drama, and music, of genuine literary worth, that is of
much interest to many scholars and amateurs.
There used to be a Sanskrit e-mail discussion group that generated a high
enough volume of messages to cause it to be shut down because of the
excessive load it was creating on its host system. The list had about 380
members who are potential readers of such a newsgroup; it may also be
safely assumed that there are others who were not on the list, but would
also like to see such a newsgroup come about.
CHARTER: humanities.language.sanskrit
The newsgroup humanities.language.sanskrit will be a forum devoted to the
discussion of all matters pertaining to the formal or informal study of
Sanskrit, both as a literary and scriptural language, and also as a
language for common use. The newsgroup will not be solely for those
already knowledgeable about Sanskrit, but will also give those interested
in it an opportunity to learn by interaction. While there will be no
restriction on the range of Sanskrit-related topics allowed, those that
have nothing to do either with Sanskrit itself, or with issues in the
study of Sanskrit, will be strongly discouraged.
END CHARTER.
humanities.language.sanskrit Final Vote Ack
Voted Yes
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100725.3…@compuserve.com Clemens Stiglechner
100734.2…@compuserve.com Hans-Georg Turstig
102054.1…@compuserve.com Subbaiah Cherumandanda.
71125…@compuserve.com Miodrag Trajkovic
72750.3…@compuserve.com Dan Kinnard
75240.2…@compuserve.com Alain-Jean PARES
95PAN…@tsunami.scar.utoronto.ca Aruna Panday
A.Lah…@sussex.ac.uk Amitabha Lahiri
A.Ra…@massey.ac.nz Anand Venkt Raman
a…@Lehigh.EDU ARATI AMRITLAL SHAH-YUKICH
ab…@gtenet.com Abhay Patil
abhya…@plk.af.mil Nandakish Abhyankar
abir…@chemeng.iisc.ernet.in ABIRAMI SUNDARI
acab…@ax.ibase.org.br Adilson Cabral
ACH…@msuvx2.memphis.edu B.N.Narahari Achar
ACYS…@chollian.dacom.co.kr choi young shin
a…@sour.sw.oz.au Andrew Gollan
ado…@engineer.mrg.uswest.com Aruna Donde
ae…@freenet.carleton.ca Nigel Allen
ag…@freenet.carleton.ca Colin R. Leech
ag…@daimi.aau.dk Carsten Kalles| Agger
aghos…@eng2.uconn.edu Anindya Ghoshal
ahu…@iupucs.iupui.edu Anand Hudli
a…@everest.tandem.com Ajit Dongre
akkar…@corp.cirrus.com Srinivas Akkaraju
akluj…@unixg.ubc.ca Ashok Aklujkar
a…@acsu.Buffalo.edu Ajit K Ranganathan
ak…@loc201.tandem.com krishnamurthy_a
akr…@oslonett.no Arne Knut Roev
alder…@netcom.com Richard M. Alderson III
amagd…@nyx10.cs.du.edu Andy Magdeburg
anan…@wipro.com Ananda Rajagopal
anant…@ecn.purdue.edu Satish Ananthaiyer
and…@golter.demon.co.uk Andrew Hoddinott
a…@ichips.intel.com Anil M. Paranjape
apan…@u.washington.edu Anshuman Pandey
a…@cs.Buffalo.EDU Ajay P Nerurkar
aq…@lafn.org Bon Giovanni
AR…@delphi.com Ananth S. Rani
ar…@epix.net Swami Tadatmananda
ar…@sci.fi Antti Kivivalli
a…@datacube.com Arun K Dalmia
asan…@hawk.stratacom.com Aruna Sangli
asarao…@sei-it.com Anil Saraogee
asdi…@midway.uchicago.edu Amol Dighe
a…@ie.utoronto.ca Atin Kulkarni
a…@yamuna.asd.sgi.com Atul Narkhede
bad…@cs.tamu.edu Badarinath Devalla
ba…@sofia.mae.cornell.edu Badrinarayanan Seshadri
bain…@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu Satyen Baindur
baks…@pictel.com Anupam Bakshi
b…@falcon.tamucc.edu M.K. Balasubramanya
bal…@nexus.yorku.ca Balaji
balog…@panix.com George Baloglou
Barti…@worldnet.att.net Randall Bart
benwb…@owlnet.rice.edu Ben William Brumfield
be…@berlin.snafu.de Bernd Schaefers
BHA…@ccvax.ucd.ie Bharat Bhushan
bill.d…@nashville.com Bill Duke
b…@herbison.com B.J. Herbison
blu…@uia.ua.ac.be Hermann.Bluhme
bmi…@husc.harvard.edu Bijoy Misra
Bradley.C.Gayl…@att.com Brad C. Gaylord, b…@drmail.dr.att.com
b…@pollux.usc.edu Bapa Rao
bro…@databank.com Andrew Broman
card…@unagi.cis.upenn.edu George Cardona
car…@PEAK.ORG Andrew Carey
carl…@math.mit.edu david carlton
cha…@Glue.umd.edu Vinay Chande
chand…@umdnj.edu Arun Chandrakantan
ch…@ICSI.Net Charles L Hamilton
che…@informix.com Chetan Pandya
c…@m-net.arbornet.org James H.Cuddeback
co…@walrus.com Jeffrey David Cohen
con…@indy.net Nancy Conner
crkre…@tessa.iaf.uiowa.edu Ramakrishna R. Chada
c…@jupiter.wipro.com C.S.Raghavendra
c…@ukc.ac.uk Charlotte Richards
daks…@rpi.edu Srikanteswara Dakshina Murthy
damb…@s850.mwc.edu David Ambuel
dc…@cftnet.com Dave Cell
dchak…@netserv.unmc.edu Dhruba Chakravarti
de…@nstl.com Deepa Kulkarni
de…@tiac.net Deepa Ganesan
deshm…@isip.msstate.edu Neeraj Deshmukh – The Falcon
dgib…@husc.harvard.edu Diana Alexandra Gibson
dhart…@mcs.com Daniel Hartung
dil…@fireant.ma.utexas.edu Dileep Karanth
d…@nevanest.spb.su Dimka Shpaer
d…@Lehigh.EDU
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In article <818135471.10…@uunet.uu.net>, Steve Bonine <s…@ntrs.com> wrote:
> RESULT
> unmoderated group humanities.language.sanskrit passes 369:24
Thanks to all those who made the newsgroup possible — to all who
supported the effort enthusiastically and voted for it; to Steve for
conducting the vote and getting the result out within hours of its close;
to Todd for his mentorship; most importantly, to Henry, for agreeing to be
co-proponent and then doing the lion’s share of the work.
Since the five-day discussion is likely to be a mere formality, perhaps
the group will actually be created before Tale’s winter break starts on
the 15th.
Regards,
Shrisha Rao
In article <4a1347$…@bigblue.oit.unc.edu>, Shrisha….@launchpad.unc.edu (Shrisha Rao) writes:
> Since the five-day discussion is likely to be a mere formality, perhaps
> the group will actually be created before Tale’s winter break starts on
> the 15th.
No, the group won’t be created before the 5-day waiting period, but the
news.announce.newgroups "vacation" does not affect the issuance of the control
messages to create new groups. The only thing that’s not done during this time
is posting RFDs and first CFVs.
–
Steve Bonine
s…@ntrs.com