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From: smith@ncoast.UUCP (Phil Smith)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: proposed 'standard' for creating new groups
Message-ID: <1050@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 17:33:59 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.1050
Posted: Thu Mar  6 17:33:59 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 21:46:43 EST
References: <1073@burl.UUCP> <886@vortex.UUCP>
Reply-To: smith@ncoast.UUCP (Phil Smith)
Organization: North Coast Computer Resources
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Summary: 

> Article <886@vortex.UUCP>
> From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)

> Greetings.  I'm not going to dig up all the details again, but as I've 
> pointed out in the past:
> 
> 1) Voting on Usenet is flawed.  <plus comments on why>
> 
> 2) Human nature is such that you'll almost always receive more yes
>    votes than no votes.  The people interested respond "yes," while
>    the people who don't care about such a group simply ignore the
>    whole issue and never bother voting "no."  Thus, the fact that you
>    get plenty of yes votes may still often mean that many more people 
>    thought the group was worthless, but didn't have the time nor
>    inclination to send in a vote.  Of course, the people who WANT the
>    group are highly motivated to vote yes.
> 
Why not use a method based on the way smith@phri conducted the 
net.general vote. But set it up so if you simply reply your vote 
will be NO. That way it will be easy for us lazy people to vote NO.


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