Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!uunet!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Proposed Guidelines Change Keywords: bovis, paranoia Message-ID: <25683F82.25276@ateng.com> Date: 20 Nov 89 18:16:33 GMT References: <1989Nov10.045531.4549@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <36393@apple.Apple.COM> <1626@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <2562D3D9.16489@ateng.com> <5289@ncar.ucar.edu> <1530@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 21 According to hb@uvaarpa.virginia.edu (Hank Bovis): >As the net gets bigger, there will inevitably be more and more group >proposals -- too many to get careful attention from very many people. >But the larger the vote on anything, the harder it will be to get a 2/3 >vote. Oh, piffle. Two-thirds is a _fraction_ of the _total_ vote. If 200 people vote, you need 133 YES votes. If 2000 people vote, you need 1333 YES votes. No scaling problem, no matter how big the net becomes. This proposal is _not_ the same as the 100-NO-vote-veto proposal, which would become more and more of a problem as the net continues to grow. The 100-minimum-difference part of the current (and proposed) guidelines keeps a group from passing if the net at large isn't interested enough. The absolute number of 100 is an imperfect distillation of the cost of newsgroups vs. mailing lists. -- 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?"