In a message dated 97-05-15 22:02:23 EDT, Ruth Callahan wrote: <<<< This was forwarded to me on my mothers advocacy mail list. Please respond if you agree.>> <clip> <<We have understood that a few neo-Nazi groups are trying to create (again) a usenet group where they want to keep in contact with each other regarding their activities. I believe it is not necessary to dwell further on their activities. The group is: rec.music.white-power.>> <clip> Ruth, I received the same message from another mail list, then this follow up message: <<Please disregard the previous message on the hate groups. It turns out that this is an issue which was resolved almost a year ago (see forwarded message below). Sorry!>> <<<<I did a little research on http:www.dejanews.com on the rec.music.white-power vote. It appears that the proposal to create that newsgroup was defeated 11 months ago, with the result posted to news:news.groups in June of 1996. The subject does not appear to have come up again in news:news.groups recently, but someone has apparently inadvertently restarted the "vote no" campaign for a dead issue. I agree that the thought of such a group was abhorrent; you'll be glad to know it failed by approximately a 3000 vote margin. (Which is a truly overwhelming turnout for these news group votes.) If you're interested in performing the search yourself, go to Deja News and do a search for articles with rec.music.white-power in the subject. Since it was a controversial issue, there are LOTS of hits. I refined the search by doing a power search restricted to the group news.groups (which is the only place where official discussion takes place on news group proposals (RFD's)). That still results in something like 1377 matches on this particular issue, so watch for posts that also have the word "results" in the subject.>>>> Rita