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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: These new voting schemes
Message-ID: <2966@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: 21 Oct 89 22:49:28 GMT
References: <4771@ncar.ucar.edu> <35805@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
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In article <35805@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
}Greg forgets (3) which I suggested early on. A person who feels that the
}name is incorrect sponsors their own separate voting on the preferred
}consensus name. It is run in parallel, removing the delays on voting on the
}name. The alternate name would be generated by consensus and not by a
}net.czar, removing the mostly irrational fears about net.gods going crazy
}and taking over all the free world. It doesn't add serious delays, lots of
}complexity, is verifiable and doesn't focus excess power in the hands of a
}few megalomaniacs like me. 

We even have a test case running: the current vote on rec.aquarium. I
sent him a YES vote, and suggest that 1) the parallel vote be treated as
legitimate and 2) that everyone who thinks that sci.aquaria is misplaced
send him a YES vote.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
{attctc,bellcore}!texbell!splut!jay +----------------------------------------
   Send richard@gryphon.com your NO vote on sci.aquaria; it belongs in rec.