Xref: utzoo news.groups:8862 news.admin:5565 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Re: Changes to proposed guidelines Message-ID: <3782@ficc.uu.net> Date: 10 Apr 89 13:20:23 GMT References: <2959@ncar.ucar.edu> Organization: Xenix Support Lines: 14 In article <2959@ncar.ucar.edu>, woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) writes: > If we shorten the voting period from 30 days to 2 weeks, with 2 weeks of > discussion preceding and 5 days of vote verification at the end, we aren't > too far away from the original 30 days for the whole process. My experience has been that 2 weeks discussion and 30 days for the vote is just and reasonable. Less than 30 days for the vote would have killed some recent votes on worthwhile groups. Where did the "original 30 days" come from? -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter, peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Personal: ...!texbell!sugar!peter, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com.