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From: wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Results of Newsgroup Guidelines Survey (conclusions)
Message-ID: <12232@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 89 15:45:20 GMT
References: <373@lock60.UUCP>
Reply-To: wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker,00440,cb,1D211,6148604019)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <373@lock60.UUCP> mhw@schuylkill.canal.org (Mark H. Weber) writes:
>
>Whether the survey results reflect
>the feelings of the USENET community at large is difficult to say. At a 
>minimum, the results reflect the feelings of group which cares enough about
>the community to try some new approaches to making USENET run more smoothly.

Your MAUVE survey had 116 respondents.  The most popular change called
for by that survey garnered 71% of these, or 82 votes.

Your STV vote had 68 respondents.

Neither of these votes would have been sufficient to create a newsgroup
by the *existing* standards, which so many people seem to feel are too
lenient.  I submit that your surveys demonstrate that there is simply
insufficient interest to warrant modifying the guidelines.




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