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From: compton@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Dave Compton)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines
Message-ID: <3520@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 89 15:32:23 GMT
References: <1634@ncar.ucar.edu> <11326@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: compton@silver.UUCP (Dave Compton)
Organization: Indiana University BACS, Bloomington
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In article <11326@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
: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

	I have another suggestion.  Either a vote > 100 vote margin,
or 250 or more yes votes.  Say there is a call for votes for a
newsgroup with a controversial subject.  And for the sake of argument,
the vote come out to.

Yes 300
No  299

	Now, In my humble opinion, this newsgroup has as much right to
exist as a speciality group that passes with the vote of:

Yes 105
No    4

	After all, the creation of a newsgroup is not as important as
electing a president.  So if enough people want the group, let them
have it even if there is not a 2/3 majority or >100 yes to no votes.

dave
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