Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!cs.ruu.nl From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: mercy rule Message-ID: <2456@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Date: 19 Feb 90 09:40:08 GMT References: Sender: news@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Lines: 28 In-reply-to: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article , emv@math (Edward Vielmetti) writes: `I propose a 'mercy rule' for group creation. You know the `story -- the Bombers are beating the Slugs 234 to 4 in the `bottom of the 6th, and it's getting late, and the Slugs `really want to go out for beer anyway and graciously `concede. New groups with widespread interest and little `controversy should be created quickly. ` ` `I'm curious to those who have data, which existing proposals `this would have affected. I looked into the votes for comp.text.tex and it passed the 210-10 line at Jan 19. The call for votes went out on Jan 11, appeared on the net at sometime between Jan 12 and 15, and the first vote came in Jan 15. Most NO votes came in very early: Jan 16: 7 Jan 17: 1 Jan 19: 2 Jan 22: 1 Jan 25: 1 Jan 30: 1 Feb 3: 1 -- Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31-30-531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31-30-513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')