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From: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
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Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines
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Date: 27 Mar 89 18:10:07 GMT
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In article <3007@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>However, we've never had a newsgroup deletion rule before, and I have
>one major concern about Greg's suggestion.  Since a majority of 100
>"yes" over "no" votes is required to KEEP a group, I'm concerned about
>the possibility of "vote harrassment" -- essentially frivolous votes on
>smaller groups where the people that benefit from that group have to keep
>voting again and again.

How's this?

You require a 6 month period between removal calls.  That way, they only
have to support it twice a year.  Kinda like PBS.  Unfortunately, this
*will* require a central authority to keep track of when the last call was!

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