Xref: utzoo news.groups:8333 news.admin:5221 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines Message-ID: <11326@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 23 Mar 89 23:58:16 GMT References: <1634@ncar.ucar.edu> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 34 I have one change to suggest -- That of the total number of votes, the yes votes need be greater than some percentage (66%? 75%?). (While still being >100 vote margin) This is for votes which have high numbers of no votes but still a large enough number of yes votes. When the numbers are large then the relative percentages get skewed. If it's yes: 400 no: 299 then the vote would pass even though the margin is pretty close. As the numbers get larger these margins get closer and closer. And in case anybody thinks that such high numbers of votes aren't possible, all you need is one volatile subject (like comp.women) to set it off and you'll get lots of votes. My feeling is that in such a case, even though a lot of people have indicated favourably, that a *LOT* of people have *ALSO* indicated unfavorably. And that group of people is large enough that they should be given attention. That there must be something fundamentally wrong with the proposal if it's generating that much negative feelings. *REGARDLESS* of the amount of positive feelings. And please, let's not re-hash the comp.??.women argument. Yes this idea did come up in that context, but it's not apropos to my suggestion here. -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- <- The problem with mnemonics is they mean different things to different people.