Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcmi!denny
From: denny@mcmi.UUCP (Dennis Page)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: New advertising group -- I recommen
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Date: 11 Jan 89 21:31:10 GMT
References: <6163@hoptoad.uucp> <33800004@iuvax>
Reply-To: denny@mcmi.UUCP (Dennis Page)
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In article <33800004@iuvax> dswise@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu writes:
>My count excludes responses to addresses other than to the requested
>sigplan@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu.  Several messages mailed directly to me,
>or posted elsewhere, or that did not say YES or NO were not included.
>Informally they  total 18 YES and 9 NO, but this count is vague.

I don't know... I sent you three responses (the 1st and 3rd of which
are included below), one for each time you posted your call for votes,
and yet I did not appear in your list of "NO" votes.  Admittedly, the
3rd does not contain an explicit "NO", but the first and second did.

If you want people to send votes to an address which is not where you
are posting from, you need to include a "Reply-To:" header.

Denny


#To: dswise@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
#Subject: Re: SIGPLAN proposes comp.lang.sigplan [No vote]
#Newsgroups: news.groups
#In-Reply-To: <19800019@iuvax>
#Organization: MCMI, Omaha, NE
#Date: 14 Oct 88 18:13:44 CDT (Fri)
#From: denny@mcmi.UUCP (Dennis Page)
#
#In article <19800019@iuvax> you write:
#>Why is the present  `news.conf.announce'  unsatisfactory? For the same reason
#>that there are separately managed news group at all: one group is too broad
#>and its turnover is too rapid for sites with specific interests.
#
#If I understand "turnover" as you use it, I would point out that the
#articles in news.announce.conferences do not expire until their CFP
#deadline or actual conference date, as approprite.
#
#Another group to hold postings that are "lost" in a group which
#averages one posting per day is not worthwhile.
#
#Please register my no vote.
#
#Denny


#To: sigplan@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
#Subject: comp.lang.sigplan - stop already
#Newsgroups: news.groups
#In-Reply-To: <14732@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
#Organization: MCMI, Omaha, NE
#Message-Id: <8811071558.AA03442@mcmi.UUCP>
#Date: 7 Nov 88 15:58:24 CST (Mon)
#From: denny@mcmi.UUCP (Dennis Page)
#
#In article <14732@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> you write:
#>	**FINAL post: Again it dropped off the net before polling completed.**
#
#For crying out loud.  There was *no* need to post this thing 3 times.
#Of course it "dropped off" before the end of the 30 day period.  The
#time to expiration is controlled on a site by site basis.  On my site,
#for instance, it expires in 4 days.  Everyone has seen your request,
#please don't send another copy.
#
#If you don't understand how the news software functions, how do you
#expect to run a moderated news group?
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