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From: welty@steinmetz.ge.com (richard welty)
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Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines
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Date: 24 Mar 89 20:30:21 GMT
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i think that by and large, these are reasonable guidelines.  i do,
however, agree with dave mack and some others that the proposed
deletion guidelines make a very unpleasant sort of harrassment
possible.

also, it would be nice if persons voting on a proposal were
required to provide something resembling a real name in their
votes -- i always feel a little queasy counting votes from
`VHDL Project' or `superuser' or `guest' or whatever;
i'd like some evidence of a person behind the particular vote.
this still won't protect votes from rabid sysadministrators
sending in votes from newly made-up accounts, but there isn't
anything i can think of that would protect against that form
of abuse.

richard
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