Xref: utzoo news.groups:15689 news.admin:7977 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Re: STV new group proposal in 25 lines Keywords: stv votes group creation interest surveys Message-ID: <7324@ficc.uu.net> Date: 16 Dec 89 17:21:43 GMT References: <5015@freja.diku.dk> <7282@ficc.uu.net> <62274@looking.on.ca> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 In article <62274@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: > It seems to me that allocating names in a namespace is the sort of > thing which is almost never voted on by the public-at-large in real life. Sure it is. Maybe not in the U.S., where street names are generated by developers running a buzz-phrase generator, but in Australia street names are frequently voted on by council, based on suggestions from the population. Sometimes even in general elections. > Street numbers? There goes my irony detector. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com