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From: sob@harvisr.harvard.edu (Scott Bradner)
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Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines
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Date: 24 Mar 89 03:31:04 GMT
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>6) Votes MUST be explicit; they should be of the form "I vote for the
>   group foo.bar as proposed" or "I vote against the group foo.bar
>   as proposed". The wording doesn't have to be exact, it just needs to
>   be unambiguous. In particular, statements of the form "I would vote
>   for this group if..." should be considered comments only and not
>   counted as votes.

I don't like this one.

It is much easer to follow the results if a format like:

YES - fred@bill.foobar.edu  
NO - fred@joe@foobar.edu

were permitted, I do agree that the ambigueous should be discarded.


Scott