Armenian Net Aggression :(

The Azeri netizens wanted to add to the multicultural mosaic of the internet news groups by adding their own soc.culture.azerbaijan. So to achieve this they went by the book and obeyed the various net etiquete on having a open voting conducted by a impartial third party. The trick was anybody could vote and if the YES votes outnumber the NO votes by 2/3 the news group would come into being and get distributed all around the world and as a result become easily accesible.

Today there are more then 23 thousand news groups some local most worldwide representing almost any field of interest and every country and ethnic group. However Armenians similiar to their spamming and attacks on soc.culture.turkish have this time striked another blow to us, the netizens by doing all they could to silence views they dont like.

The voting resulted in 1732 YES and 920 NO votes, failing 2/3 test. You may wonder how could one blame this on Armenian fanatics? Well simple, because the same system that requires 2/3 majoirty also requires open ballots so you can see who voted and belive me as you can see below almost all the NOs were from Armenians.

We would have prefered the creation of this moderated list as a venue for informing people of Azeri events as well a level-headed discussions forum for Azeri-Armenian conflicts.

Here are the anti-freedom-of speech nay sayers.

Here is the message from the 3rd party vote counter together with the explanation of what the group was for;

RESULT: soc.culture.azerbaijan fails 1732:920 			
Author:		Jim Davis 	
Date:		1997/01/12	
Forums:		news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, sci.geo.petroleum,
soc.culture.arabic, soc.culture.iranian, soc.culture.pakistan,
soc.culture.turkish 	

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                                RESULT
        moderated group soc.culture.azerbaijan fails 1732:920

There were 1732 YES votes and 920 NO votes, for a total of 2652 valid
votes.  There were 23 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.


Newsgroup line:
soc.culture.azerbaijan	Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis. (Moderated)

This vote was conducted by a neutral third party.  Direct
questions about the proposed group to the proponent.

RATIONALE: soc.culture.azerbaijan

Soc.culture.azerbaijan will host discussions and promote understanding of
issues related to the Azerbaijan Republic, one of the three newly
independent Transcaucasian states of the former Soviet Union.
Soc.culture.azerbaijan will allow Azerbaijanis living all over the world
to communicate amongst themselves and with the internet community at
large.
CHARTER: soc.culture.azerbaijan

Discussions in soc.culture.azerbaijan may revolve around -- but are not
limited to -- the following topics:

       1) Culture, religion;
       2) Economics, business, oil contracts;
       3) Education, science, research opportunities;
       4) History, literature;
       5) Development and promotion of computer networking;
       6) Politics, humanitarian aid, refugees;
       7) Travel, tourism, geography;
       8) Sports and entertainment.

The languages of soc.culture.azerbaijan will be English and Azeri. Posts
in any other language, alphabet, or non-ASCII coding scheme will be
subject to consideration by the panel of moderators.