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From: unccab@calico.med.unc.edu (Charles Balan)
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Subject: Re: Voting for new newsgroups
Keywords: vote new group
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Date: 4 Jan 90 14:21:52 GMT
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In article <6355@sun.acs.udel.edu> weave@sun.acs.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes:
>This should be an easy question!

 When even _I_ can answer the question, you know it is a simple one! :-)

>
>When there is a call for votes, who may vote? Is this just limited
>to administrators of systems, or may common folk vote too?
> 
 Usenet is an anarchy of sites looped together so that nice people (and
 others) may communicate, learn, exchange data, relax and do other things.
 When a new group comes up for a vote, all those who are interested may
 submit a vote...however, the _ideals_ of the voting procedure are that
 those who would use a known group would be voting on it (hopefully).  

 For example, if you wanted to start a newsgroup comp.sys.nz.sheep you
 would hold a discussion period in which ANYONE could contribute their
 $.02 (nz) worth, then, after the appropriate waiting period (ahem) you
 would post a call for votes for comp.sys.nz.sheep.  ANYONE on the net,
 including net.gods, net.admins, common.folk and net.schizos may vote on
 your new group (albeit net.schizos may vote twice :-) , even though all
 of them may not subscribe to your sheep group.  That is the way this
 particular anarchy is governed [sic].

 I am sure this is more of an answer than you wanted, but I feel
 loquacious today ;-)




                            Charles Balan
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