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From: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Prime Minister)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines
Message-ID: <16324@terminus.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 89 12:03:00 GMT
References: <1634@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Prime Minister)
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In article <1634@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
>3) AFTER the waiting period, if 100 more YES/create votes were received
>   than NO/don't create, a newgroup control message may be sent out.
>   If the 100 vote margin is not met, the group should not be created and 
>   discussion of it on the net should cease.

While the rest is good, I think the time has come to examine this
100 vote plurality rule.  Since the net has been growing, and still
is growing, perhaps a more generic formula could be made, relating
the needed plurality to size of the net?