Xref: utzoo news.groups:8025 comp.windows.x:8689 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!nsb+ From: nsb+@andrew.cmu.edu (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: comp.sys.andrew voting biased Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 89 14:23:01 GMT References: <4Y4dPXy00Uk4Qp6GQ9@andrew.cmu.edu> , <1851@edison.GE.COM> Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: <1851@edison.GE.COM> > *Excerpts from ext.nn.news.groups: 8-Mar-89 comp.sys.andrew voting biased* > *rja@edison.GE.COM (1030)* > 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 presume from his message that rja read the original Draves complaint but none of its resolution. As I made clear at the time, I promptly sent out another vote that made it equally easy for people to vote NO automatically, and in fact I did receive several NO votes via this mechanism. You should be careful, when you've fallen way behind reading news, not to answer one message until you've seen how many followup messages there already have been. You're weeks behind the times on this one, and the problem has long since been cleared up. By the way, the vote I conducted was intended to create a group with world distribution; I'd still like to see an upgrade. The vote is still going on, and it is still a landslide. The current vote is 184 to 7; if you take out all CMU responses, whether automatic or not, you still have a vote of 125 to 2. Come on, people, this just is NOT a controversial newsgroup creation, lets stop arguing about it.