From: billwolf@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,)
Subject: Re: comp.sw.components & newsgroup voting
Date: 24 Feb 89 02:41:18 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4535@hubcap.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3177@ficc.uu.net
From article <3177@ficc.uu.net>, by jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell):
> Casting a vote in someone's name w/o that individual's permission
> is *extremely* unethical --- and startlingly presumptuous. [...]
> Is there a way to preclude such permissionless autovoting on the net?
Local vn documentation states that if there is general agreement
among the users of a mailing list that a newsgroup should be created,
then the mailing list can be counted as a block of YES votes, en masse.
As a practical matter, I have no intention of enduring hate mail from
someone who objects violently enough. Thus, the plan was to distribute
a mailing list article saying that we were going for a newsgroup (as if
they weren't already going to read the same declarations in comp.lang.ada
and comp.software-eng), and to send e-mail if there are violent objections.
As another practical matter, even if I didn't agree to drop the YES vote
of anyone who objected, they could still submit a NO vote and at least
neutralize the YES.
The comp.sw.components Mailing List is presently 96 members strong,
and a grand total of 2 have so far stated that they want to be on
the mailing list but would not presently support a newsgroup. They
are more than neutralized by 3 people who voted in favor of the
newsgroup but did not want to be on the mailing list.
Therefore, I think this essentially amounts to a tempest in a teapot,
and I do anticipate that the comp.sw.components newsgroup will become
a reality by year-end.
Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
comp.sw.components Mailing List administrator
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1989-02-24 2:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1989-02-13 3:06 comp.sw.components Bill Wolfe
1989-02-15 22:58 ` comp.sw.components Peter da Silva
1989-02-17 1:16 ` comp.sw.components William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-02-18 5:17 ` comp.sw.components Paul L Schauble
1989-02-19 17:19 ` comp.sw.components & mail difficulties William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-02-23 15:05 ` comp.sw.components Peter da Silva
1989-02-23 15:22 ` comp.sw.components jeff daiell
1989-02-24 2:41 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847, [this message]
1989-02-24 5:52 ` comp.sw.components & newsgroup voting Gary Tse
1989-02-24 19:03 ` jeff daiell
1989-02-25 18:06 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-02-27 8:12 ` Roger B.A. Klorese
1989-02-27 18:19 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
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