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From: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: SF Poll. Top 40 authors. Notes on format etc.
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Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 22:21:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 14 22:21:15 1985
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In article <2279@topaz.ARPA> Newman.pasa@Xerox.ARPA writes:
>
>Can we make negative votes on authors in your list - each negative vote
>cancelling out one positive vote?
>
>>>Dave

    Uhhhh....Run that past me one more time? Since this is a list
of the Canonical books in SF it seems to me that everyone should
have a say, meaning that if someone went to all the trouble of
mailing me a book title it will appear _somewhere_ in the list -
although if few others thought it important/entertaining enough
it would not be high in the list. It seems that your suggestion
would be conducive to a species of "Poll Wars". By the way this
is no more "my list" than it is yours (or any net.sf-lovers
reader for that matter) - anyone who wants to vote gets equal
attention. Also, i note the use of "authors" - this is _not_ a
list of "best authors", but "books that everyone should read".
    Was this a joke i missed or what?
		Greg.
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Gregory J.E. Rawlins, Department of Computer Science, U. Waterloo
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