From dwells@fits.CX.NRAO.EDU Fri Feb 14 11:54:35 1992 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil t nil nil nil] ["1705" "Tue" "11" "February" "1992" "14:16:13" "GMT" "Don Wells" "dwells@fits.CX.NRAO.EDU " nil "43" "CFV: sci.astro.fits" "^From:" nil nil "2"]) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,sci.astro,sci.space,alt.sci.astro.fits,sci.astro.hubble Followup-To: poster Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu From: dwells@fits.CX.NRAO.EDU (Don Wells) Subject: CFV: sci.astro.fits Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 14:16:13 GMT Call For Votes to Create USENET Newsgroup Name: sci.astro.fits Status: Unmoderated Charter: This newsgroup will provide a forum for the discussion of all topics concerning the FITS [Flexible Image Transport System] data format. The newsgroup will be interfaced to the Email exploder fitsbits@fits.cx.nrao.edu so that traffic originating on either the newsgroup on the exploder will be automatically transmitted to the other. This new newsgroup will replace existing newsgroup alt.sci.astro.fits. Reference Entry: sci.astro.fits Issues related to the Flexible Image Transport System. How to Vote: Send Email to "dwells@fits.cx.nrao.edu" (or "dwells@nrao.edu") with the Subject line containing either "I vote YES on sci.astro.fits" or "I vote NO on sci.astro.fits". If you are unable to generate/edit a Subject line then insert the YES/NO statement into the body of your message. The votes must be an explicit YES or NO; conditional votes will not be accepted. Only votes mailed to the above addresses will count; votes posted to the net for any reason and proxy votes (such as mailing list maintainers claiming a vote for each member of the list) will not be counted. Each vote will be acknowledged by Email, and at least one mass acknowledgement will be posted to various newsgroups. Period: This vote will end at 23:59 Eastern time on Saturday 2 March 1992. -- Donald C. Wells Associate Scientist dwells@nrao.edu National Radio Astronomy Observatory +1-804-296-0277 520 Edgemont Road Fax= +1-804-296-0278 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-2475 USA 78:31.1W, 38:02.2N