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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines
Summary: Worse than the present
Message-ID: <1185@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 89 13:02:38 GMT
References: <1634@ncar.ucar.edu> <11326@s.ms.uky.edu> <27773@apple.Apple.COM>
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In article <27773@apple.Apple.COM>, chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
> 
> Good idea, but let's keep it simple. A given vote must have 50% + 1 of the
> vote being for creation, with a minimum number of votes (say, 250). That
> shows that (1) the majority of the net wants it created, and (2) that
> there's a relatively broad-base of support. Those are more vigorous
> requirements than it takes to be elected to government office!

So you would support creating a newsgroup if 126 were for creation and 
124 against, but not if 126 were for and 0 against?  I fail to see the
logic of this.  I do not see 126 for and 124 against as better than
110 for and 10 against, which would pass the current requirement.  Thus,
I see Chuq proposing a procedure which looks worse than what we are now
doing.
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP)