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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: A proposal for a new voting scheme
Message-ID: <1989Nov12.162221.10189@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 12 Nov 89 16:22:21 GMT
References: <6931@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <6931@ficc.uu.net> by peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
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| > An alternative suggestion is that if there are more YES than NO votes by
| > whatever margin is decided upon, the name with the most YES votes will be
| > created (or used, if it is an existing group).
| 
| This is a reasonable alternative, but to take the sci.aquaria farce as an
| example, it's not really meaningful to combine votes for sci.aquaria and for
| rec.aquaria as mutual "yes" votes. A mutual hate society, maybe.
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Richard Sexton and Oleg Kiselev aside, most people voted FOR sci.aquaria on
the merits of the "aquaria", not the "sci".  I submit that in fact, the votes
could be combined to reflect interest in a newsgroup on the subject under
*any* name -- even in the case of *.aquaria.

++Brandon
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