cfv comp publish cdrom hardware multimedia software c a l l f o r v o t e this is the official call for a vote on the creation of 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 comp publish cdrom hardware comp publish cdrom software comp publish cdrom multimedia status unmoderated voting period from the appearance of this posting to est may how to vote all votes must be emailed to manaster yu yu edu or sent as a reply to the originator of this cfv manaster yu 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 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 voting rules 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 again they must indicate that they have previously voted and are 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 only votes emailed to the above addresses will be counted mailed replies to this posting will be discarded in the event that more than one vote is placed by an individual only the first vote will be counted unless it was changed as above no information will be supplied as to how people are voting until the final acknowledgment is made at the end at which time the full vote will be made public ambiguous votes 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 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 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 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 henry manaster email manaster yu yu edu brooklyn ny disclaimer the above is not necessarily my opinion nor that of anyone 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