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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: New newsgroup proceedures, voting..
Message-ID: <1984@hao.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 17:53:55 EST
Article-I.D.: hao.1984
Posted: Thu Mar  6 17:53:55 1986
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> o Rather than one vote per site, make it one vote per feed, with votes being
> 	made by the SA. This gives the sites that are funding the net, the
> 	backbones, the added priviledge of helping to decide where the money
> 	they are spending on this thing is used.

   I agree with this idea in general (since it has become obvious to me
with what is going on at HAO in the wake of Gramm-Rudman that we will do
what we have to do with or without the cooperation of the rest of the net,
but it's easier and more efficient with). I do have a question, though.
How does one define "feed"? We have 4 main news connections; two are "down-
stream" and get all their news from us (nbires and noao, and they in turn feed 
dozens of other sites that also ultimately get all their news through us). We 
also have two backbone connections; one of them (seismo) we receive far more 
from than we transmit to, and the other (hplabs) it looks like we send
and receive about the same amount to. So how many votes would we get?
How many votes would a site like nbires above get?

--Greg
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