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From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,news.groups
Subject: comp.sys.andrew voting biased
Message-ID: <1851@edison.GE.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 89 13:38:50 GMT
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In article <oY4h9yy00hYP10ClAH@cs.cmu.edu>, 
    rpd@cs.cmu.edu (Richard Draves) writes:

% I don't think the voting will be fair.  Nathaniel  cross-posted this to a
% widely-read Andrew bboard (used for general announcements), giving readers the
% option of automatically sending a yes vote.  However, there wasn't a no vote
% alternative.  (The alternative was not sending a vote at all.)  Just because
% sending a no vote is much more painful for the hundreds/thousands of readers 
% of the Andrew bboard, the voting results will be tremendously biased.
% 
% I think Nathaniel should discard all votes from the andrew.cmu.edu mail 
% domain.
% Rich

I agree with Richard Draves (quoted above).  I hereby publicly rescind
my former Yes vote to comp.sys.andrew on the grounds that the voting
procedure has been biased.  This vote bias tends to leave a poor 
impression of CMU folks amongst the net-at-large and is unfortunate.

I have also sent e-mail to rescind my vote and urge others to do the 
same.

  rja@edison.CHO.GE.COM