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From: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.pets,news.groups
Subject: Re: Call of votes - sci.aquaria (sort of moderated)
Keywords: vote early, vote often
Message-ID: <2689@cpoint.UUCP>
Date: 18 Oct 89 17:42:12 GMT
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Reply-To: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells)
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In article <1475@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> jwi@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes:
>If you had actually been reading news.groups, you would also 
>have seen the series of articles that requested a multiple 
>vote with several names. The idea was that a YES or NO vote could 
>be made for each name. Then, if more than one name passed, either
>the name with the most YES votes, the name with the least NO votes,
>or the name with the most spread between YES and NO (or all of
>them) could be further considered.
>
>Many people indicated that they were in favor of this scheme.

As one of the people who was in news.groups pushing for multiple votes (I was
actually the one that posted the (to me simple and obvious) scheme that has 
gotten the recent support), let me play devil's advocate (how appropriate ;-)
and stick up for Richard.

The multiple vote proposal is just that, a proposal.  It is not the accepted
Usenet protocol for generating a new group or renaming an existing group.  If
Richard had tried to use a multiple vote proposal, others would be well within
their rights to contest the entire vote - and given the rather high temperature
over there in news.groups, I'm sure someone would have.

Richard did the accepted thing in current Usenet protocol.  He was the 
original poster who asked for the group creation, so he has the right to 
decide the name to be used for the vote.  If you don't like the name so much
that you find it offensive, just vote no.  If sci. fails, he has the right to
resubmit the vote with a different name.  If he does not, someone else can.

Please calm down just a bit.  If you disagree with him, just vote no.  If he
is really doing something slimy (as you imply), you will be joined by enough
people that Richard won't be able to get the name to pass (you need 100 more
yes votes than no votes).
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