Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news Subject: Re: A proposal for a modified voting rule Message-ID: <209@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 11:20:09 EDT Article-I.D.: graffiti.209 Posted: Tue Sep 17 11:20:09 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Sep-85 06:07:36 EDT References: <3215@nsc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 13 Xref: watmath net.news.group:3813 net.news:3960 > I propose the following rule -- each site can generate a weighted vote > on any subject. The weight of the vote is equal to the number of > OUTGOING news feeds a site supports. This means that a backbone such > as hplabs would have a weighted vote of about 7, nsc would be 3, and a > leaf node that feeds news to nobody gets no vote at all. The weights > can be generated from the mod.map data, giving people a reason to get > their data in their and keep it up to date -- if you aren't on the map, > you don't exist. We exclude feeds between machines in the same building > since that isn't supporting the outside world. YES! As a leaf site administrator, I hereby vote to disenfranchise myself. -- peter@baylor.UUCP Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com