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From: tp@ndm20
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Subject: Re: A proposal for a modified voting ru
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Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 03:45:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 29 03:45:00 1985
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>the computer centers are autonomous organizations.  Many times these
>organizations do not have the insight to understand the needs and desires
>of their user community, nor is it practical for them to poll there user
>community.  The Holmdel computer center probably has greater than several
>thousand UNIX users (my guess).

Um, so you  want to  be able  to send  your votes  (collected in some
manner, note that  auto-deletion based  on usage  is a  form of vote)
outside of your organization (to the  net), to  avoid their influence
on the news that they have to administer and pay  for?   I still feel
the net has no right to  pay attention  to anyone  by the  SA on such
matters.  Internal issues should remain internal.  Holmdel could, for
instance, appoint a user or committee of users to decide the vote for
the site.

Usenet, considered as an abstract entity, has no right  to bypass the
SA.  The SA is in charge of  resources, and  that is  the whole issue
here.  Any SA who doesn't  want the  burden can  pass the  buck.  I'm
sure if this idea gets anywhere, someone will post  a vote collection
program to ease the burden on a large site.  Then  Holmdel could just
let the users vote into the system, take  the results  as their vote,
and that is it.   If  someone writes  such a  thing it  could have an
option to automatically sample the votes, turn  them into for/against
votes, and mail them out to whoever gets stuck counting them.


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