Ausadmin
October 17th, 2003, 08:16 AM
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CALL FOR VOTES
Creation of Unmoderated newsgroup aus.sport.shooting
This is a formal Call For Votes (CFV) for the creation of a new
Australian unmoderated newsgroup aus.sport.shooting. Please see below
for voting instructions.
Newsgroups line:
aus.sport.shooting Australian shooting sports involving firearms.
Votes must be received by Saturday November 01 2003 10:59:59 +1000.
For this vote to pass, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all
valid (YES and NO) votes. There must also be at least 20 more
YES votes than NO votes.
This vote is being conducted by ausadmin. For voting questions contact
. For questions about the proposed group
contact Lindsay Vincent <lindsay at hornet..net..au>.
RATIONALE:
The proposed group (aus.sport.shooting) would cater for the discussion
and dissemination of information pertaining to all forms of sport
involving firearms (longarms and handguns) in Australia. This would
include hunting for food (eg: rabbits), sport (eg: pigs & goats)
or livelihood (eg: fox), target, clays, competition, reloading/ballistics,
pistols, and the like.
Currently, there is no newsgroup in the aus.* hierarchy that covers
any form of sport shooting in Australia.
The only other forums available that I'm aware of are rec.guns,
and alt.sport.shooting. rec.guns is heavily biased towards
shooting in the USA, and alt.sport.shooting is sparsely populated
with approx 13 on-topic posts in the last 30 days.
Shooting sports in Australia are generally frowned upon because of
the adverse media attention given to any article mentioning firearms.
The majority of firearm owners that I know would like a forum to
talk about shooting sports in Australia (which, with respect) is
different to the United States and other countries.
This group would give Australian sporting shooters somewhere to talk
about their sport - somewhere for the sporting shooter to discuss
the merits of Breneke slugs on pigs, .22 Magnum over .22 Hornet,
Michael Diamond's chances at the Athens Olympics, gun mods and
repairs, and so on...
END RATIONALE.
CHARTER: aus.sport.shooting
aus.sport.shooting is for the discussion of shooting sports and
related topics in Australia. Examples of on-topic discussions include:
- hunting with firearms
- pistol shooting
- target shooting
- ballistics and reloading
- competition
- clay targets
- areas to shoot
- gunsmithing
Off-topic posts, such as the following subjects, are discouraged:
- political posts
- posts debating the firearms laws and legislation of
Australia and other countries.
- posts discussing the illegal use of firearms.
What is not acceptable:
- HTML posting
- Binaries (post a URL instead)
- Crossposting to more than 3 other newsgroups
- Commercial advertisements (unless prefixed with [COMM] )
- For-Sale advertisements (unless prefixed with [FS] )
- Auction advertisements (unless prefixed with [FA] )
- Flaming and ad-hominem attacks
- Spam and chain letters
END CHARTER.
PROPOSER: Lindsay Vincent <lindsay at hornet..net..au>
HOW TO VOTE:
To vote, you must send an email message to:
The subject of your email message is not important.
Your mail message must contain only one of the following statements:
I vote YES on aus.example.name
I vote NO on aus.example.name
You must replace aus.example.name with the name of the newsgroup
that you are voting on.
Anything else may be rejected by the automatic vote counting program.
The ausadmin system will respond to your received message with a
personal acknowledgement by E-mail so you must send from your real
email address, not a spam-block address. If you do not receive an
acknowledgement within 24 hours, try again. It is your responsibility
to make sure your vote is registered correctly.
Only one vote per person, no more than one vote per E-mail address.
Votes from invalid or unreachable email addresses may be rejected.
Multiple voting attempts will be ignored. E-mail addresses of all voters
will be published in munged form in the final voting results list.
Ausadmin will attempt to keep actual voting directions (YES or NO)
confidential, however the vote emails themselves received by ausadmin
will be considered non-confidential and their contents may be published
in full at ausadmin's discretion (e.g. in suspected multi-voting).
[ Check the PGP signature of this post using ausadmin's key online at
http://aus.news-admin.org/ausadmin.asc --nick ]
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CALL FOR VOTES
Creation of Unmoderated newsgroup aus.sport.shooting
This is a formal Call For Votes (CFV) for the creation of a new
Australian unmoderated newsgroup aus.sport.shooting. Please see below
for voting instructions.
Newsgroups line:
aus.sport.shooting Australian shooting sports involving firearms.
Votes must be received by Saturday November 01 2003 10:59:59 +1000.
For this vote to pass, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all
valid (YES and NO) votes. There must also be at least 20 more
YES votes than NO votes.
This vote is being conducted by ausadmin. For voting questions contact
. For questions about the proposed group
contact Lindsay Vincent <lindsay at hornet..net..au>.
RATIONALE:
The proposed group (aus.sport.shooting) would cater for the discussion
and dissemination of information pertaining to all forms of sport
involving firearms (longarms and handguns) in Australia. This would
include hunting for food (eg: rabbits), sport (eg: pigs & goats)
or livelihood (eg: fox), target, clays, competition, reloading/ballistics,
pistols, and the like.
Currently, there is no newsgroup in the aus.* hierarchy that covers
any form of sport shooting in Australia.
The only other forums available that I'm aware of are rec.guns,
and alt.sport.shooting. rec.guns is heavily biased towards
shooting in the USA, and alt.sport.shooting is sparsely populated
with approx 13 on-topic posts in the last 30 days.
Shooting sports in Australia are generally frowned upon because of
the adverse media attention given to any article mentioning firearms.
The majority of firearm owners that I know would like a forum to
talk about shooting sports in Australia (which, with respect) is
different to the United States and other countries.
This group would give Australian sporting shooters somewhere to talk
about their sport - somewhere for the sporting shooter to discuss
the merits of Breneke slugs on pigs, .22 Magnum over .22 Hornet,
Michael Diamond's chances at the Athens Olympics, gun mods and
repairs, and so on...
END RATIONALE.
CHARTER: aus.sport.shooting
aus.sport.shooting is for the discussion of shooting sports and
related topics in Australia. Examples of on-topic discussions include:
- hunting with firearms
- pistol shooting
- target shooting
- ballistics and reloading
- competition
- clay targets
- areas to shoot
- gunsmithing
Off-topic posts, such as the following subjects, are discouraged:
- political posts
- posts debating the firearms laws and legislation of
Australia and other countries.
- posts discussing the illegal use of firearms.
What is not acceptable:
- HTML posting
- Binaries (post a URL instead)
- Crossposting to more than 3 other newsgroups
- Commercial advertisements (unless prefixed with [COMM] )
- For-Sale advertisements (unless prefixed with [FS] )
- Auction advertisements (unless prefixed with [FA] )
- Flaming and ad-hominem attacks
- Spam and chain letters
END CHARTER.
PROPOSER: Lindsay Vincent <lindsay at hornet..net..au>
HOW TO VOTE:
To vote, you must send an email message to:
The subject of your email message is not important.
Your mail message must contain only one of the following statements:
I vote YES on aus.example.name
I vote NO on aus.example.name
You must replace aus.example.name with the name of the newsgroup
that you are voting on.
Anything else may be rejected by the automatic vote counting program.
The ausadmin system will respond to your received message with a
personal acknowledgement by E-mail so you must send from your real
email address, not a spam-block address. If you do not receive an
acknowledgement within 24 hours, try again. It is your responsibility
to make sure your vote is registered correctly.
Only one vote per person, no more than one vote per E-mail address.
Votes from invalid or unreachable email addresses may be rejected.
Multiple voting attempts will be ignored. E-mail addresses of all voters
will be published in munged form in the final voting results list.
Ausadmin will attempt to keep actual voting directions (YES or NO)
confidential, however the vote emails themselves received by ausadmin
will be considered non-confidential and their contents may be published
in full at ausadmin's discretion (e.g. in suspected multi-voting).
[ Check the PGP signature of this post using ausadmin's key online at
http://aus.news-admin.org/ausadmin.asc --nick ]
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