Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!kannan From: kannan@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Kannan Varadhan) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Second call for votes, un-moderated soc.culture.iranian Message-ID: <75153@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 27 Dec 89 17:58:17 GMT References: <20415@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <2598FF57.24857@paris.ics.uci.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Kannan Varadhan Organization: Dept. of Cptr & Info Science @ Ohio State University Lines: 20 tittle@alexandre-dumas.ics.uci.edu (Cindy Tittle) >I would like to register an objection with the way this vote is being >run. I received direct e-mail solicitation for votes (to be sure, the >request was for a vote, not for a "yes") and I believe that this >practice should be strongly discouraged. I get junk mail as it is, >and do not want to see junk e-mail get started. > >Any discussion should go to news.groups. I got the same note, and am still wondering how I am involved, or how the gentleman got my name. I, too, would like to register my objection to this vote. The fact that the request was one for a vote, and not a direct "yes" seems minor nitpicking at best....sigh! KANNAN -- Kannan Varadhan, Ohio Supercomputer Center, Columbus, OH 43212 [(614) 292-4137] email: kannan@osc.edu | osu-cis!oscsunb!kannan