From: rdippold@qualcomm.com (Ron "Asbestos" Dippold)
Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.mail.misc,comp.os.linux.announce,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: CFV: comp.mail.smail
Date: 9 Mar 1994 17:21:57 -0500
Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net, linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu
Message-ID: <comp.mail.smail-CFV1@uunet.uu.net>

                     FIRST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
		unmoderated group comp.mail.smail

Newsgroups line:
comp.mail.smail		Administration of the smail e-mail transport system.

Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 30 March 1994. 

After the CFV appears on news.announce.newgroups it will be posted to
the smail3-users list <smail3-users@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>.

This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  For voting
questions only contact rdippold@qualcomm.com.  For questions about the
proposed group contact Ian Kluft <ikluft@thunder.sbay.org>.

CHARTER

   comp.mail.smail will be an unmoderated newsgroup for discussion of porting,
   using, configuring and administering the smail electronic mail transport
   agent (MTA).  It is primarily intended for smail 3 or later systems but
   older smail 2.5 questions may be also be included in the subject of the
   newsgroup.

Smail is a mail transport agent (MTA) which has been freely available for Unix
systems for years.  It has been used by some who chose to replace the MTA
which was included with their OS or by others who had to find an MTA for an OS
that didn't include one.  Recently smail has picked up more momentum with its
acceptance as the official GNU e-mail transport system and its inclusion in
most of the distributions of Linux.  An e-mail poll in January 1994 was held
to guage potential interest, receiving 120 responses: 116 yes and 4 no.  Since
polls usually have a smaller response than votes, the official newsgroup
proposal was begun.


HOW TO VOTE

Send MAIL to:   voting@qualcomm.com
Just Replying should work if you are not reading this on a mailing list.

Your mail message should contain one of the following statements:
      I vote YES on comp.mail.smail
      I vote NO on comp.mail.smail

You may also ABSTAIN in place of YES/NO - this will not affect the outcome.
Anything else may be rejected by the automatic vote counting program.  The
votetaker will respond to your received ballots with a personal acknowledge-
ment by mail - if you do not receive one within several days, try again.
It's your responsibility to make sure your vote is registered correctly.

Only one vote counted per person, no more than one vote per account. Addresses
and votes of all voters will be published in the final voting results list.
