2ND AND FINAL CALL FOR VOTES: bionet.plants.maize

[David Kristofferson]

This is the second and final call for votes on bionet.plants.maize.

There were several postings on BIOFORUM/bionet.general about the
benefits of a separate maize group but also many comments about first
building up a maize discussion in the existing bionet.plants
newsgroup.  The parties on opposite sides of the separate newsgroup
issue did not compromise.  I suggest that you read those messages, if
you haven't already, before voting.  Those who favor the creation of
the maize newsgroup should obviously vote YES while those who think
that it is premature and want discussion to begin first on
bionet.plants should vote NO.

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PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH bionet.plants.maize

Discussion leader: Allen Wright (adwright at iastate.edu)

Purpose: Discussion/inquiries regarding the anatomy, breeding,
genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, evolution, ethnobotany, and
utilization of maize and its related species, including information
exchange regarding mutants, genetic stocks, mapping and methodology.
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Voting is now open on bionet.plants.maize and will run through 24:00
hrs Pacific Time on 1 October 1992.  Please send your vote to any of
the following addresses (the IRLEARN address *is* functional):

Address                               Location        Network
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biovote at daresbury.ac.uk               U.K.            JANET
biovote at genbank.bio.net               U.S.A.          Internet/BITNET
biovote at irlearn.ucd.ie                Ireland         EARN/BITNET

Your vote should contain a single line:

YES on bionet.plants.maize

if you favor creation of the newsgroup or

NO on bionet.plants.maize

if you think that the creation of this newsgroup will adversely affect
the BIOSCI system.  If you are simply not interested in participating
in this newsgroup, please don't cast a NO vote, but instead just don't
vote at all.

The newsgroup proposal must receive at least 80 YES votes to pass and
the number of YES votes must be greater than the number of NO votes by
at least 40.  Discussion of the newsgroup proposal is now closed and
we strongly discourage posting any messages in other forums about the
fact that a CALL FOR VOTES has been issued.

				Sincerely,

				Dave Kristofferson
				GenBank Manager

				kristoff at genbank.bio.net