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From: rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: Why Vote No
Message-ID: <3127@edm.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 88 12:22:22 GMT
References: <11672@mimsy.UUCP>
Organization: Unexsys Systems, Edmonton,AB.
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From article <11672@mimsy.UUCP>, by mangoe@mimsy.UUCP (Charley Wingate):
> Dave Caswell writes:

>>I asked this question a while ago and no one answered.  Why do we allow
>>NO votes?  Who cares how many people are uninterested in a topic and will

> Because voting no is the only way to effectively express disapproval of any
> aspect of a group proposal.  Considerations like "does it have an
> appropriate name?" or "where should it be in the hierarchy?"  are relevant.

The point to having NO votes is mostly as stated above, but since NO votes
tend to be rather rare (cf: comp.protocol.tcp.eniac), it seems fine to 
allow them. If NO votes are enough to counteract most of the YESs, then
it would be fair to assume that there is SOMETHING wrong with the newsgroup
proposal (if only lack of interest).

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