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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: These new voting schemes
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Date: 20 Oct 89 22:29:15 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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Verification.

Yes, a good point. And a good argument for the Alien Wells scheme. It
would be easy enough to list the votes without a lot of bandwidth:

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	"PROPOSAL: discussions of War of the Worlds, the TV show"

The winner was "rec.arts.wotw" with 110-34. Because this did not meet
the 100 vote majority the group was not created:

				YES	NO
1	rec.arts.wotw		110	 34
2	sci.space.wotw		  1	172
3	rec.arts.tv.wotw	 87	  1
4	rec.arts.war-worlds	102	 34

Votes:

1 2 3 4	Name
Y - Y Y	peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Y N Y N peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
N Y N N sexton@gryphon.com (Richard Sexton)
...
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There is another alternative to creating a Name Czar or going to a more
complex scheme... that is, forcing people to worry more about opposition
to the name. This would cut down the "I know I can get 600 votes so I'm
gonna call it comp.lang.piglatin, so there" type stuff. Either the BADNAME
vote proposal or my 100 NO vote proposal would serve this purpose.
-- 
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