There were 113 YES votes and 19 NO votes, for a total of 132 valid votes. There were 2 abstains and 8 invalid ballots.
For group passage, YES votes must be at least 2/3 of all valid (YES and NO) votes. There also must be at least 100 more YES votes than NO votes.
There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted. Unless serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the group may not be voted on again for six months.
Newsgroups line: sci.techniques.xtallography.rietveld Rietveld science and technology.
Voting closed at 23:59:59 UTC, 5 Jan 1996.
This vote was conducted by a neutral third party. Questions about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent.
Proponent: Lachlan Cranswick Lachlan.Cranswick@minerals.csiro.au
Votetaker: Steve Bonine spb@ntrs.com
The over 300 participants of the Rietveld mailing list have agreed with attempting to convert the existing mailing list to a full Usenet newsgroup. This is to enable easier discussion of scientific issues relating to the Rietveld based applications to a full Usenet newsgroup. This is to enable easier discussion of scientific issues relating to the Rietveld based applications via newsreading software and create an "open" Rietveld resource on the internet/Usenet. This would also help negate concerns that are inhibitting discussions on the basis that mail boxes are already too cluttered.
If created, the old mailing list will still be mirrored to the newsgroup so that subscribers without newsgroup access can continue participating. While the method was originally created by Hugo Rietveld for the refinement of crystal structures, it has greatly expanded beyond these borders to include such fields as quantitative phase analysis, crystallite size and strain analysis.
The newsgroup sci.techniques.xtallography.rietveld will be an open discussion forum for the international Rietveld research community on the internet/Usenet.
Voted Yes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 72203.420@CompuServe.COM Stephen B. Robie 9ap@ornl.gov E. Andrew Payzant @mailserv.uni-tuebingen.de:caali01@caali01 Stefan Liebing AAREP@ACVAX.INRE.ASU.EDU Rosemary E. Gerald Pacalo adhunter@cc.ysu.edu Allen D Hunter ajschultz@anl.gov Arthur J. Schultz alice@minmet.uq.oz.au Alice Harris almendra@metalmat.ufrj.br Ericksson Almendra annef@cohsoft.com.au Anne Foxworthy armel@ONE.univ-lemans.fr Armel Le Bail artioli@iummix.terra.unimi.it Gilberto Artioli arturas@matphys.kth.se Arturas Vailionis averma@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca Atul Verma Bernard.Chenevier@inpg.fr Bernard Chenevier birchall@pilot.njin.net Shag Bish@lanl.gov David Bish bjoern@min.uni-kiel.de Bjoern Winkler bm4@classic.min.uni-heidelberg.de Arnt Kern BREN@slac.stanford.edu Sean Brennan bresnab@tiac.net Brian Bresnahan C.LOBBAN@ucl.ac.uk Colin Lobban cantonpa@unive.it Patrizia Canton careya@PEAK.ORG Andrew Carey carsten.schinzer@uni-tuebingen.de Carsten Schinzer CHEM91@Jetson.UH.EDU Bill Harrison (713)-743-2789 choi@rrdstrad.nist.gov Chang Sun Choi cls48@columbia.edu Christopher Lodge Stamper cschoi@ccs.sogang.ac.kr Cheong Song Choi ddragoi@du.edu Danut Dragoi dgrier@plains.nodak.edu Dean Grier Diffract@aol.com Ludwig Keller dj2d@hrzpub.th-darmstadt.de Jeffrey Nicolich esy@ornl.gov Eliot Specht FLMAY@ccmail.monsanto.com Frank L. May G.A.Patterson@reading.ac.uk Graham A. Patterson gdean@vianet.net.au Graeme Dean GORTER_S@rulgca.LeidenUniv.nl Drs. Ing. S. Gorter granado@ifi.unicamp.br Eduardo Granado M. Silva - grad grubb@msc.cornell.edu David Grubb HARALAAG@UCBEH.SAN.UC.EDU Alex Haralampiev hay@rivett.mst.csiro.au David Gilbert HAY hewat@ill.fr hewat@ill.fr (Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble) Howard.Flack@cryst.unige.ch Howard Flack howard@rollanet.org Scott A. Howard huffman@indiana.edu John C. Huffman hugo.rietveld@pi.net Hugo Rietveld hugo@rubiin.physic.ut.ee Hugo Ma'ndar is06@students.stir.ac.uk I. Stirling J.deOnate@kristall.erdw.ethz.ch Javier de Onate jejda@chevron.com Eric J. Daniels JGJACA@eucmax.sim.ucm.es Javier Garcia Jaca JHOLSA@sara.cc.utu.fi Jorma HOLSA at University of Turku, FINLAND Josef.Breu@chemie.uni-regensburg.de Josef Breu joukj@alpha.chem.uva.nl J.JANSEN jwk@nwu.edu John Koenitzer kaduk@amoco.com James A. Kaduk kavec@linux1.iepsaske.sk Kavecansky Viktor kim@shell.portal.com Kim DeVaughn Klaus-Georg.Adams@chemie.uni-karlsruhe.de Klaus-Georg Adams klbnt@kbar.dtu.dk Niels Thorup kosten@kristall.xtal.rwth-aachen.de Klaus Kosten kou@ornl.gov Bryan Chakoumakos kris049@rzbox.uni-wuerzburg.de Thilo Herrmannsdoerfer kwinter@ludin.com.au Karsten Winter lachlan@dmp.csiro.au Lachlan Cranswick list-votes@dream.hb.north.de Martin Schr"oder m-hirshb@nimsn41.nimr.mrc.ac.uk Miri Hirshberg M.C.Andrews@reading.ac.uk Michael Andrews m.versluijs-helder@anorg.chem.ruu.nl Marjan Versluijs-Helder mailcon@sara.nl Milco Numan malloy00@io.com MA Lloyd Marten.Barker@vme.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk Marten G. Barker mcginnis@nosc.mil Wayne C. McGinnis michael@min.uni-kiel.de Michael Chall "miller_s%Organization=Geoscience%Telephone=705-670-5635"@a1.torv05.um Stu mlbrostrom@mmm.com Myles L. Brostrom I vote Yes on sci.techniques.xtallogra mwdaniel@uiuc.edu Michael W. Daniels NIEUWMK@alpha.unisa.ac.za Michel Nieuwoudt Nita.Dragoe@chimsol.u-psud.fr Nita.Dragoe norbert@stinch0.csmtbo.mi.cnr.it Norberto Masciocchi Olivier.Joubert@cnrs-imn.fr O. JOUBERT PARK@kristall.xtal.rwth-aachen.de Hyun Min PARK paxil@interlog.com Trevor Tymchuk peterson@geolserv.geol.queensu.ca Ron Peterson PETES@cc.usu.edu Peter T. Kolesar qfmatcvv@usc.es Vazquez-Vazquez, Carlos Rafael.Ibanez@uv.es Rafael Ibanez Puchades raftery@pigeon.qut.edu.au Tony Raftery rick@bcm.tmc.edu Richard H. Miller rufinus@mbe.ece.wisc.edu J. Rufinus SAPPENFILDE@baylor.edu Eric Sappenfield schumacp@battelle.org Philip M Schumacher sfdrx1@usc.es Jose Benito Rodriguez Gonzalez SNYDER@xray.alfred.edu X-ray X-press Steve_Maginn@msicam.co.uk Dr. Stephen J. Maginn tas@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr Dr. A. Cuneyt Tas tjbartcz@lodz1.p.lodz.pl TJ Bartczak tomas@cae.wisc.edu Tomas Charles Willis trail@MIT.EDU Steven S. Trail tsi@suisse.att.com T. Siegrist uachsmrk@savba.savba.sk Lubomir Smrcok uccghjs@ucl.ac.uk John Stuart uclasoch@cyf-kr.edu.pl Wieslaw Lasocha valente@mc.edu Ed Valente viani@s72.es.llnl.gov Brian Viani VONDREELE@mist.lansce.lanl.gov R. Von Dreele wakelyn@pinn.net N. T. Wakelyn xanthian@qualcomm.com Kent Paul Dolan yckim@kaeri.re.kr Yong Che Kim yokof@zephyr.nrlssc.navy.mil Yoko Furukawa zavalij@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu Dr. Peter Zavalij zheng@cz2.chem.niu.edu Chong Zheng Voted No ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ananda@cs.utexas.edu Ananda M. Kar catseye@netcom.com Mark Kupferman csaamw@urc.tue.nl Michiel Wijers dballard@ix.netcom.com Don Ballard escharff@CS.Cornell.EDU Eric Scharff jrm@globalvillag.com John R. MacWilliamson kmitchel@direct.ca Kevin Mitchell kunz@esrf.fr Martin Kunz lancec@dream.wireless.ucsc.edu Lance K. Chun matt@perutz.salk.edu Matthew Bowen Harrington patl@lcs.mit.edu Patrick J. LoPresti ryang@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu Glen Patrick Ryan slsoled@erenj.com Stuart L. Soled smarry@turing.toronto.edu Smarasderagd stainles@bga.com Dwight Brown tlawson@email.univpubs.american.edu Todd C. Lawson twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu Tim Pierce Vincent.Archer@hsc.fr.net Vincent Archer widenius@cc.helsinki.fi Risto Widenius Abstained ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ berar@esrf.fr Jean-Francois Berar ( berar@rx-crg1.polycnrs-gre.fr ) mmt@redbrick.com Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS Votes in error ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ bin@conz.ci.uv.es Your name here ! Invalid address geib@xchem2.chem.pitt.edu ! No name given HALUSKA@xray.alfred.edu ! No name given hbarwood@indiana.edu henry l. barwood ! No vote statement in message lthomas@iastate.edu ! No vote statement in message Mitchell_Malone@odp.tamu.edu ! No vote statement in message RCarlson1@aol.com ! No name given sgc@robots.ox.ac.uk ! No name given