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From: brendan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: OFFICIAL Guidelines (2nd try)
Summary: moderator-represented votes
Message-ID: <464@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 12 Apr 89 02:05:44 GMT
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Reply-To: brendan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Brendan Kehoe)
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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.

 This still rubs me the wrong way...that's like saying "well, since you
can't get to the polls, you're not entitled to an absentee ballot and
you'll be stuck with whoever gets elected." In practice, I can see how it
is necessary..but I'll repeat my post of a few weeks ago, saying that if
this is to be a requirement, then the vote-taker should be at a relatively
"high" level site...and reliable mail delivery assumed, not hoped for.
 As for moderators representing their whole list, I agree that this is
wrong..people can't be able to send in 50-100 votes en masse..what the
moderator COULD do, if he or she feels strongly enough about the subject,
is to include in their mailing lists a request that all readers "PLEASE
vote suchnsuch on this! my_reasons_why_then_why_you_should_feel_this_way_too";
that way, if people get ticked off, it's not splattered all over the net,
and at the same time, those who  would be most interested in the subject
but happen not to read news.* would get a chance to check it out for
themselves (or take the moderator's word as the writings of God..hehe, ok
so maybe some already DO).

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