Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!inmet!justin
From: justin@inmet.inmet.com
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Results of sci.aquaria vote
Message-ID: <41800010@inmet>
Date: 21 Nov 89 21:14:00 GMT
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Nf-From: inmet.inmet.com!justin    Nov 21 16:14:00 1989


Getting back to the original topic a bit...

A lot of people seem to be missing a major point. You're so wrapped up in
asking who should or shouldn't be enfranchised in the voting process, that
you've almost entirely forgotten the *purpose* of that process: to assess
interest in a group. In general, a sysadmin has only the vaguest idea of
what his or her users are actually going to read, so it seems rather 
difficult for him or her to make a fair vote.

In other words, I'm not calling an "only-sysadmins-vote" system unfair. I'm
saying that it is totally, utterly, and completely *pointless*...

					-- Justin du Coeur