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From: wsmith@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: comp.sw.components
Message-ID: <39400005@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 89 03:43:00 GMT
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Nf-From: m.cs.uiuc.edu!wsmith    Feb 17 21:43:00 1989


>/* Written  7:16 pm  Feb 16, 1989 by billwolf@hubcap.clemson.edu in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.software-eng */
>From article <3111@ficc.uu.net>, by peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
>> In article <4402@hubcap.UUCP>, wtwolfe@hubcap.UUCP (Bill Wolfe) writes:
>>>    In future votes on the creation of a comp.sw.components newsgroup,
>>>    everyone on the mailing list will automatically count as a YES vote.
>> 
>> I would like to join the mailing list, but I may not wish to vote YES to
>> the newsgroup. I would strongly urge this assumption that members of a
>> mailing list wish to vote YES to the group be dropped.
>
>   There appears to be a general lifecycle of mailing list -> newsgroup;
>   it is my understanding that the mailing list is counted as a block of
>   "YES" votes when such a transition is being considered.

Why not just write the rules as you see fit?   There is a procedure for
creating a notes file.  "Implicit votes" are not part of the procedure.
I think there are plenty of mailing lists with > 100 members that
have not intention of becoming a notesfile and their organizers would agree 
that it would be inappropriate for them to be a notesfile.

It is not such a great inconvenience to *ask* the people on the mailing
list, when it becomes time to consider promoting the mailing list in
the future.  As Peter said, assuming that all of the people reading
want it to be a news group is an invalid assumption.

I think that the issue for becoming a new notes file is not only the
number of readers, but also the traffic.  If the traffic is light, using
mail will be more efficient, regardless of how many people read the
mailing list.

Turn down C2H2/oxygen mixture....

Bill Smith
wsmith@cs.uiuc.edu
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