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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: OFFICIAL Guidelines (2nd try)
Message-ID: <13561@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 10 Apr 89 17:33:05 GMT
References: <2961@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <2961@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@ncar.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:

| 4) ONLY votes MAILED to the vote-taker will count. Votes posted to the net
|    for any reason (including inability to get mail to the vote-taker) and 
|    proxy votes (such as having a mailing list maintainer claim a vote for 
|    each member of the list) may not be counted.

  As I have mentioned before, in the cause of reducing the cost to the
net *any* list which has some number of readers (200 maybe) should be
allowed to become a group by having the moderator post the names of the
readers as yes votes. I don't believe that "it's more convenient by
mail" is a reason to keep sending that many copies, and I don't think
the argument of "adequate coverage in other groups" should be allowed
to add to the phone bills of the backbone sites, if there are N people
who feel that more coverage is needed.

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	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me