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From: edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: One vote per site? (was Re: Suspicious Results of sci.aquaria vote)
Summary: Perhaps sysadmin's should vote for the site
Message-ID: <1989Nov19.081859.2335@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 19 Nov 89 08:18:59 GMT
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In article <452.2562b158@devsim.mdcbbs.com> jmi@devsim.mdcbbs.com ((JM Ivler) MDC - Douglas Aircraft Co. Long Beach, CA.) writes:
>In article <4199@nigel.udel.EDU> berryh@udel.edu (John Berryhill) writes:
>> I can't believe the number of people that believe that campaigning and
>> canvassing for votes is "dishonest."
>
>Your so right. Working at DAC we have about 35 different systems that can 
>access the NET and NEWS. Next time I will send out local mail to all the users 
>that I know about (about 500 engineers) and request that they vote the way I 
>want them to on some newsgroups creation. 
>
>**Come on, be real!!** Solicitations of non-NEWS reader votes runs contrary to 
>the basic foundation of the why this vote is being taken in the first place.
	<more topical text used to live here>

Perhaps this is simply another valid point as to why newsadmins should be
the only ones voting on newgroup creations.  They are the only ones on any
given site that do know who really reads a given group, and in most cases
will be the least biased.

On:  Mon, 13 Nov 89 07:10:55 GMT, I had written:

eah> Subject: Re: Some observations on this whole mess.
eah> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 89 07:10:55 GMT
eah> Message-ID: <1989Nov13.071055.9401@xenitec.on.ca>
eah> Summary: perhaps only newsadmins should vote?
eah> 
eah> ....and on the topic of wild ideas....
eah> Perhaps each newsadmin would accept opinions from his/her news readers
eah> and then issue one single "vote" for that site.  As it is quite true
eah> that the size of USENET is growing almost exponentially, each newsadmin
eah> in effect acting on his own user poll would serve to temper the flood
eah> of weighted opinion from individual sites (there were some complaints
eah> re. this point recently).
eah> 
eah> Would one vote per site be viable?

The more I read in news.groups, the less wild this seems.

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