LAST CALL FOR VOTES (of 2)
                     moderated group comp.std.c++

Newsgroups lines:
comp.std.c++ Design and standardization of the C++ language.

Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC, 2 Aug 1995.

This vote is being conducted by a neutral third party.  For voting
questions only contact Daniel Hartung <dhartung@mcs.com>  (the
votetaker).  For questions about the proposed groups contact
Matt Austern <matt@physics.berkeley.edu> (the proponent).

The group comp.std.c++ was created around 1 May 1990 after
a CFV available in the news.announce.newgroups archive at
<ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/comp/comp.std.c++>.


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RATIONALE

This is the rationale for the proposal as submitted by the proponent.

    comp.std.c++ should be a low-volume newsgroup that can be read by
    everyone with a serious interest in the C++ language.  Recently,
    however, it has attracted a great many posts that are irrelevant
    to C++ standardization---frequently not even relevant to C++
    at all.  As the Net grows, this situation can be expected to get
    worse.


CHARTERS

These are the newsgroup charters as submitted by the proponent.

    comp.std.c++ is for technical announcements and discussion of the
    ANSI/ISO C++ standardization process and the C++ standard, and
    discussion of the design and standardization of the C++ language and
    libraries. Other discussion that is directly related to the C++
    standard (not related merely to C++ programming techniques) is also
    welcome.  Posts should be cogent and free of personal attacks.

    Questions about C++ _programming techniques_ should instead be posted to
    comp.lang.c++. Questions that are specific to some particular platform
    should be posted to a group devoted to that platform.

    comp.std.c++ will be moderated by panel.  A submission will be sent
    randomly to one of the moderators, who will decide to post or reject
    it.  There will also be an alias you can use to discuss matters
    (either individual posts or general policy) with all of the
    moderators.

    Submission address: std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu
    Contact address: std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu
    List of moderators:
        Matt Austern     <matt@physics.berkeley.edu>
        Steve Clamage    <clamage@eng.sun.com>
        Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>


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