Xref: utzoo news.admin:3918 news.groups:6128 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!chinet!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!lear From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: QUESTION OF MODERATION FOR NEWS.ADMIN: VOTE TALLY Message-ID: Date: 30 Oct 88 05:13:20 GMT Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 276 One month ago today, I called for votes on the question of moderating news.admin. My call for votes was based on a perceived demand for moderation. Here are the results of my census. YES VOTES - 165 NO VOTES - 82 --- DIFFERENCE: 83 While YES votes outnumbered NO votes more than two to one, it is a convention that actions such as moderation of an existing group require at least 100 YES votes over NO votes. However, it is clear that some form of action is required. Many people strongly suggested that we start posting guidelines for posting into news.admin, due to its volatile nature. I'll implement this in some manner or another. Your comments are solicited. The addresses of those who voted with their respective votes follow: ------------------------- YES VOTES ------------------------------- @cunyvm.cuny.edu:mauhk@CU.WARWICK.AC.UK @relay.cs.net,@neat.ai.toronto.edu:brian@radio.astro.toronto.edu @relay.cs.net,@tektronix.tek.com:jeff@hammer.gwd.tek.com @relay.cs.net:brad@looking.uucp @relay.cs.net:bs@sbsvax.de @relay.cs.net:eschle@forty2.uucp @relay.cs.net:sandy%oresoft.uucp@tektronix.tek.com @relay.cs.net:scott%tekcrl.crl@tektronix.tek.com @relay.cs.net:wyle@lavi.uucp @virginia.acc.virginia.edu:rja@edison.ge.com @zorac.dciem.dnd.ca:ntt@dretor GROSSMAN@score.stanford.edu John.Myers@k.gp.cs.cmu.edu Kathryn.VanStone@nimbus.gp.cs.cmu.edu NMBCU@cunyvm.cuny.edu Tom.Lane@zog.cs.cmu.edu ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu ane@hal.cwru.edu aplcen!jhunix!fallst!tkevans@mimsy.umd.edu attcan!lsuc!dave@uunet.uu.net attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!cs-col!toto!haug@uunet.uu.net attcan!telly!evan@uunet.uu.net ballou%pool.DEC@decwrl.dec.com bch@uncecs.edu 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seeger@dali.iec.ufl.edu shefter-bret@yale.arpa skyler@uncecs.edu soma!shell!stan@watson.ee.utexas.edu stiatl!pda@gatech.edu stpstn!aad@philabs.philips.com suned1!efb@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov sunybcs!ur-cc!srs!matt@rutgers.edu tadguy@cs.odu.edu tale@life.pawl.rpi.edu tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu texbell!tness7!vector!chip@cs.utexas.edu tim%attdso%att@research.att.com tlxprs!fantasci!root@vsedev.vse.com tombre@crin.crin.fr tower@bu-it.bu.edu troly@math.ucla.edu ucdavis!gvgpsa!davew@ucbvax.berkeley.edu ucqais!showard@uccba.uc.edu uiucdcs!pur-ee!mlm@uunet.uu.net vixie@decwrl.dec.com vsi1!tolerant!jane@altos.arpa werner@astro.as.utexas.edu wezel@bio.vu.nl wood@emmy.ma.utexas.edu woods@handies.ucar.edu xait!lakart!dg@think.com yba@sabre.bellcore.com yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov -------------------------- NO VOTES -------------------------- @relay.cs.net,@neat.ai.toronto.edu,@utzoo,@telly:cks@ziebmef @relay.cs.net:nate@mipos2.intel.com @relay.cs.net:rdgreenall@lotus.waterloo.edu RWC102@psuvm.bitnet 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sun!sjsumcs!ctnews!mitisft!bms@decwrl.dec.com tedell@ucdavis.edu texbell!root@tness7.sw1e.swbt.com unido!isaak!einstein!luik@uunet.uu.net wbt%cbnews@research.att.com wes@emptys.cc.umich.edu -- Eliot Lear [lear@net.bio.net]