Xref: utzoo news.groups:10459 news.admin:6124 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Re: More on Moderated news.group Message-ID: <1558@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 27 Jun 89 22:32:32 GMT References: <3497@ncar.ucar.edu> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Reply-To: "David Wright" Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 39 In article <3497@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes: # The name of the group. The two alternatives are to put it under # news.announce (news.announce.groups) or under news.groups # (news.groups.proposals). There is not yet, as far as I can see, a clear # consensus on which is better. I very much prefer news.groups.announce to either of these. I don't think you're going to resolve this before calling the vote, so why not do it *with* the vote? Let us choose the name by STV (Single Transferable Vote), probably the fairest voting system yet devised for many purposes (Irish and Australian elections, the Synod of the Church of England, and the (UK) Social & Liberal Democrats internal elections, to give a varied selection). Voters who care about the name would vote for them in order, e.g. 1 news.groups.announce 2 news.groups.proposals 3 news.announce.groups (leaving out any unacceptable names - and maybe writing in new ideas?). If the vote for the group passed, then count the votes as follows: 1 - If one name has >50% of the votes, it is the 'winner'. 2 - If not, transfer the votes from the 'papers' of the name with the least votes to their second preference. Repeat until 1) applies. Simple, yes? And it shouldn't take long to count. Then we'll know that the name chosen is the prefered name, or at least acceptable, to the majority of the voters. I recall some other group proposal recently having a vote like this, so it would not be the first to try it. ---- Regards, David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK dww@stl.stc.co.uk ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!dww PSI%234237100122::DWW Living in a country without a written constitution means having to trust in the Good Will of the Government and the Generosity of Civil Servants.