Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!ncar!snowmass.scd.ucar.edu!woods From: woods@snowmass.scd.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CfD: Interest Group Surveys (was: STV new group proposal in 25 lines) Keywords: single transferrable votes STV newsgroup creation interest group Message-ID: <6317@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 15 Feb 90 20:28:16 GMT References: <1990Feb7.224449.8453@diku.dk> Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder, CO Lines: 13 In article jeffd@ficc.uu.net (Jeff Daiell) writes: >Holding [name and creation votes] together would also reduce group.creation.time, >and several folks have noted that the process takes too long >as things stand. I don't buy this. The creation takes 14+21+5 = 40 days if done according to official rules. I don't see that the need for any new group is so critical that 40 days is anything to get riled up over. And even if a preliminary name vote is held, since that can be done concurrently with the first 14 days of discussion, it doesn't necessarily even lengthen the process that much. --Greg