Voting procedure

[Una Smith]

>I say: allow NO votes and publish the names/addresses, just as you will
>the YES roster.  

The standard Usenet procedure is to publish a list of people who voted,
sorted alphabetically, WITHOUT REGARD for the vote itself.  Personally,
I would be very unhappy to see a voting system that revealed which way
people voted.  Such open systems are useful in circumstances where the
voting party is a representative of some larger group (eg, senators),
but leads to repression in many parts of the world.
 
>Make establishment of a newsgroup contigent only on a minimum number
>of YES votes, and let the NOs stand as [not-so] mute dissent.
                                        
Why bother submit a NO vote then, other than to be obnoxious?

    Una

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     Una Smith   una at phy.duke.edu    School of the Environment
                                     Duke University
                                     Durham, NC  27706