C A L L   F O R   V O T E
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This is the official Call For a Vote on the creation of 3 newsgroups
for those engaged or interested in all areas relating to the
PUBLISHING OF ANY SORT OF CDROM MATERIAL. Please repost this CFV to any
newsgroup, listserver or reflector that you think might have a
group interested in this subject in order to reach as broad an
audience as possible. Every vote counts, so make sure you register
yours if you want these groups to be created.

 
Proposed Groups
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comp.publish.cdrom.hardware
comp.publish.cdrom.software
comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia
 
Status
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Unmoderated.
 

Voting Period
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From: The appearance of this posting
To:   23:59 EST, 21 May 1993

How To Vote
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All votes must be emailed to: manaster@yu1.yu.edu
or sent as a reply to the originator of this CFV (manaster@yu1.yu.edu). 

-To vote, simply copy the example below and delete either the "Yes"
or the "No" before each group to register your vote for or against
the creation of that group. A line containing "Yes/No" as in the
example below, will be considered an abstention with respect to
that particular group. Note that each group will have its own
separate vote count and that you may split your vote for the groups
or abstain as you will. Please provide your Name and E-mail address
as shown in the example below.

		Email your  vote following this
		example.....
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Subject: Re: Vote on comp.publish.cdrom.*
	
I  vote "Yes/No" for the creation of "comp.publish.cdrom.software"
I  vote "Yes/No" for the creation of "comp.publish.cdrom.hardware"
I  vote "Yes/No" for the creation of "comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia"

	[Last Name], [First Name] [(E-mail Address)]
	.
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Voting Rules
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-Only one vote per user (Two different people cannot vote under the
 same user name).
-Any votes which are received before or after the voting period
 will be discarded.
-Anyone who wants to change their previous vote may do so by voting
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 changing their mind in a footnote.  A changed vote will discard your
 previous vote.
-Email messages sent to the above addresses must constitute unambiguous
 and unconditional votes for/against newsgroup creation as proposed.
 Conditional votes will not be accepted.
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-In the event that more than one vote is placed by an individual, only
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Ambiguous Votes
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Ambiguous votes -- those who do not follow the specified format, or 
do not make clear the voter's intent, will, where possible,  be 
returned to their senders for clarification.  Ambiguous votes which 
cannot be returned to their senders or for which no clarification is 
provided will be identified in the final vote tally.

Every Vote Counts........Feel free to Flood my mail!!!


Rationale
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The rationale for this proposal is a need for those interested or
involved in the publishing of cdrom materials to have a forum for
the discussion relating to their needs. At the moment the main fora
for such discussion are in alt.cd-rom and comp.multimedia neither
of which have publishing as their focus. Some lists serve the
general cdrom community with focuses on library, government and
network usage, and until several weeks ago none were devoted 
to publishing (CDPub has just been setup). In any case a list is not,
and ought not, be a replacement for regular usenet newsgroups.
 
The reason for the division into three groups is a natural
partition of interest between the hardware and software topics,
and between the two main focal points of software, i.e. fulltext
and multimedia publishing. Topics such as CDROM XA, CDI, CD-R, 
Photo CD and other related formats would be included as well. 
Topics related to cdrom publishing that are neither clearly
hardware or software related such as books, copyright issues and
other legal matters, packaging, distribution, could be included in
the purvue of comp.publish.cdrom.software, as would any other
nonhardware or multimedia topic that relates in some way to cdrom
publishing, in any format, and is appropriate to the Internet.
 
The main focus of comp.publish.cdrom.software would be topics such as
index and retrieval software, premastering software, cdrom
simulation software, hypertext, sgml, scanning and imaging
software, data capture software, data clean up, compression,
encryption etc as relates to publishing cdroms.
 
The main focus of comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia would be software that
aids in the multimedia authoring and publishing process - audio and
video.
 
The main focus of comp.publish.cdrom.hardware would be hardware that
relates to cdrom publishing, as well as hardware for data capture,
such as all sorts of scanners and data capture hardware, as well as
information that publishers need to know about the hardware that
the intended enduser will utilize (the hardware that will
eventually play the published cdrom) including networks for cdrom.
 
Notes
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These groups are not to be used for topics such as reviews or
questions relating to already published cdroms or reviews or
questions relating to general purpose cdrom drives and the like.
Requests for help in installing a cdrom drive and other general
topics should be directed to other fora. Questions about cdroms
mounted on LANs should be directed to bit.listserv.cdromlan.
 
Charter
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Proposed Charter -- COMP.PUBLISH.CDROM.SOFTWARE
 
The USENET newsgroup, comp.publish.cdrom.software, will be a newsgroup for 
discussion of the following example topics, but not limited to them:
 
	Index and retrieval software
 
	Authoring software
 
	Scanning and imaging software
 
	OCR and OCR cleanup
 
	Hypertext
 
	SGML
 
	Premastering and Simulation (cdrom) software
 
	Copyright and legal issues related to publishing cdroms
 
	Other nonhardware topics related to cdrom publishing
 
Proposed Charter -- COMP.PUBLISH.CDROM.HARDWARE
 
The USENET newsgroup, comp.publish.cdrom.hardware, will be a newsgroup for 
discussion of the following example topics, but not limited to them:
 
	CD-R equipment
 
	Data capture hardware
 
	Scanners
 
	Video and audio capture hardware
 
	Networking hardware
 
	Midi hardware
 
	Photo CD hardware
 
	Publishing systems
 
	CDI and DVI hardware
 
	Compression and encryption hardware
 
	Keyboarding
 
	Other hardware publishing topics
 
Proposed Charter -- COMP.PUBLISH.CDROM.MULTIMEDIA
 
The USENET newsgroup, comp.publish.cdrom.multimedia will be a newsgroup for 
discussion of the following example topics, but not limited to them:
 
	Multimedia authoring software
 
	Imaging software
 
	Audio and Midi software
 
	Color control software
 
	Video editing software
 
	Audio editing software
 
	Multimedia utilities useful for publishers
 
	Integration of text, image, audio and video
 
	Compression and encryption of multimedia
 
	Multimedia copyright and related legal issues
 
	Multimedia databases and hypertext
 
	Other multimedia publishing topics