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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Lets do something constructive re: *.aquaria groups
Message-ID: <38785@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 90 01:20:59 GMT
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hougen@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dean Hougen) writes:

>Will anyone help me clear this up? 

Well, if I were going to fix the aquaria problem, here's what I'd do. I'd
run one more vote on the net, asking users to choose the best name for the
group:

(example) Rank your preferences for the name of the group 1, 2, 3. If you do
not want a specific group named, leave it blank:

_____ alt.aquaria
_____ rec.aquaria
_____ sci.aquaria

Then count every '1' as five points, every '2' as three points, every '3' as
1 point and every blank as zero points. When the vote is over, the group
with the highest point total wins and the other two are rmgrouped. If you
can show that the voting is valid and doesn't have a lot of highly
politicized or questionable votes, the net will probably go along with the
results -- and at the very least, there'll be a single group with spotty
distribution instead of three groups with various parts amputated.

But then, I'm not going to fix the aquaria problem. Maybe someone else will.

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