Xref: utzoo news.groups:15051 news.admin:7799 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Re: Recent Voting Stats Keywords: no votes stv names conflict group creation newsgroups Message-ID: <7102@ficc.uu.net> Date: 25 Nov 89 18:19:29 GMT References: <854@pmafire.UUCP> <855@pmafire.UUCP> <856@pmafire.UUCP> <4980@freja.diku.dk> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 18 In article <4980@freja.diku.dk> stodol@freja.diku.dk (David Stodolsky) writes: > In fact, no votes are unrelated to the proposed group name and charter. In fact NO votes are most closely related to the name. > Most importantly they treat the creation of groups as a zero sum > game where there must be winners and losers. Not a zero-sum game, but there may be losers. A badly named group decreases the utility of the news system overall. My problem with .groupware is mainly with the second half of the name. It's kind of non-obvious what this refers to. Anyone remember net.columbia? -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame." -- Chuq Von Rospach, chuq@Apple.COM