Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!apple!genbank!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Results of sci.aquaria vote Message-ID: Date: 9 Nov 89 00:08:15 GMT References: <21910@gryphon.COM> <3329@watale.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 66 In-reply-to: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu's message of 7 Nov 89 23:05:32 GMT In article <3329@watale.waterloo.edu> tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes: >Richard Sexton writes: >> NO: >> [320 votes, deleted] >> >> YES: >> [466 votes, deleted] >Sigh. There's something rotten in the Kingdom of Denmark, or should I say >Usenet. 866 votes certainly got my attention piqued, so I grabbed the list >of voters, and after about an hour of massaging, managed to extract _most_ >voters' uucp hosts and/or Internet domains from the assorted mail paths. >Most interesting! What I then did was to look at all sites/domains with >six or more votes sent in, and see how they voted. Here's a summary of what >I found (note: I do not claim 100% accuracy, but it should be close!): >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- [...] >Lopsided vote counts >-------------------- [...] >*.nasa.gov YES: 8 NO: 2 From the list of votes: NO: Peter Reiher onyx.Jpl.Nasa.Gov!reiher Thomas E. Dell YES: bertha.Jpl.Nasa.Gov!billw elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov!alex elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov!lambert James Firby robotics.Jpl.Nasa.Gov!firby Ken Burgess Phil Stone Todd Stock William SetzerIDM xxx.jpl.nasa.gov is in Pasadena, CA xxx.dfrf.nasa.gov is at Edwards AFB, CA (about 70 miles north of JPL) xxx.arc.nasa.gov is in Mountain View, CA (about 300 miles north of Edwards) xxx.gsfc.nasa.gov is in Greenbelt, Maryland (a long way east of CA) I don't know where xxx.nas.nasa.gov is, but it's not at Edwards AFB. There's a lot of NASA and it's all xxx.yyy.nasa.gov. There are seven Centers, two Facilities, and Headquarters, plus JPL and several other important pieces. >Am I the only one that's smelling fish in this vote? :) I think you underestimated the robustness of the naming conventions. Also, you missed me--I was listed as drynix!shafer, because that's where I read News. (I voted YES, BTW.) -- Mary Shafer shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA