Re: comp.sw.components & newsgroup voting

[billwolf@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,)]

From article <13972@admin.mips.COM>, by rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese):
> In article <4535@hubcap.UUCP> wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>>    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.  
> 
> Then your local documentation either applies only to local groups, or is
> *wrong*; if the latter is true, please correct it so no one will make the
> same error in judgment in the future.

    As mentioned already in news.groups, upon a search for the precise
    source, I found it instead in something my news administrator had
    sent me regarding rules for creating a newsgroup, from a person named
    Gene Spafford who evidently is a backbone administrator.  I therefore
    presume that this represents valid law until modified.  Allow me to
    reiterate that rather than follow precisely this algorithm, I will
    drop the YES vote of anyone who objects to being counted as a YES,
    thus freeing them to cast a NO if they so desire.  
 
       5) c) If you are trying to get an exisiting mailing list upgraded
             to a newsgroup, consider the current subscriber list as a
             set of "yes" votes of equal number, but only if they have
             already agreed that they want the list turned into a
             newsgroup.

    I am redirecting followups to news.groups for what I hope will be
    the VERY LAST TIME.


    Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
    comp.sw.components Mailing List administrator