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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: A Few Observations
Message-ID: <1626@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 17:13:53 GMT
References: <1989Nov10.045531.4549@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <36393@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <36393@apple.Apple.COM>, chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
|  >>I favor a percentage, personally 2/3 Yes, for creating a newsgroup [...]
|  
|  >Of course!  Why didn't I think of that?  :-)
|  
|  Hmm. I've been recommending that for, what, two years now? Probably the
|  single most important reason why it's not being taken seriously....

  You're kidding, right? Would you really want a group to pass, say, 7-2
because it got a 2/3 majority? The 100 vote requirement keeps us from
getting groups with no readership.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon