Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!jeffd From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (Jeff Daiell) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CfD: Interest Group Surveys (was: STV new group proposal in 25 lines) Summary: Compression Keywords: single transferrable votes STV newsgroup creation interest group Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 90 13:20:59 GMT References: <1990Feb7.224449.8453@diku.dk> Organization: FICC [but opinions my own!] Lines: 15 In article , peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > In article lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: > > I see no reason why one couldn't use STV to pick the name before a call > > for votes to see if the group should be created. > > My STV proposal, currently on the > table, would be to hold these two votes in parallel. Holding them together would also reduce group.creation.time, and several folks have noted that the process takes too long as things stand. Jeff Daiell -- Thank you for not coercing.