Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!uunet!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: A Few Observations Message-ID: <2562D3D9.16489@ateng.com> Date: 16 Nov 89 15:35:52 GMT References: <1989Nov10.045531.4549@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <36393@apple.Apple.COM> <1626@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 12 According to davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr): >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. Of course. The 100 vote requirement should not be weakened. Chuq's proposal (with which I agree) is to add an _additional_ 2/3 majority requirement on top of the 100 vote differential requirement. -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg at A T Engineering; or "Did I ever tell you the Jim Gladding story about the binoculars?"