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From: briang@bari.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Voting for new newsgroups
Keywords: vote new group
Message-ID: <129926@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 90 19:21:35 GMT
References: <6355@sun.acs.udel.edu> <129878@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Jan5.112408.27299@twwells.com>
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In article <1990Jan5.112408.27299@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>In article <129878@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> briang@sun.UUCP (Brian Gordon) writes:
>: In article <6355@sun.acs.udel.edu> weave@sun.acs.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes:
>: >This should be an easy question!
>: >
>: >When there is a call for votes, who may vote? Is this just limited
>: >to administrators of systems, or may common folk vote too?
>:
>: An easy one -- anyone who reads ("subscribes to") news.groups is allowed to
>: vote, and anyone who has access to e-mail CAN vote.
>
>There is nothing at all that says that you must subscribe to
>news.groups in order to vote.
>
>Anyone who is able to is allowed to vote. However, there is one
>	[...]
>To summarize: anyone who can send e-mail *may* vote; only those
>who have reasons related to the group (or the net, as it applies
>to the group) one way or the other *should* vote.

Not that different a sentiment, really.  Those who do NOT subscribe to
news.groups probably are unaware of the history, protocols, rules/guidelines,
etc.  of typical news group formation and hence, perhaps, "less qualified" to
vote yea or nay.  If you are interested in a topic but naive in the ways of
usenet, you are probably as easy to manipulate as a typical <insert big city
name> <insert traditional controlling party> voter ;-}

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