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[VOTE} Moderate news group

  • To: MATHGROUP at CHRISTENSEN.Cybernetics.NET
  • Subject: [VOTE} Moderate news group
  • From: rrigon at VMS1.tamu.edu (Riccardo Rigon)
  • Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 08:50:07 +0100

>From: laska at netcom.com (Andrew Laska)
>Subject: [mg524] Vote NO!!!!!!!!!
>To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
>Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 12:27:17 -0800 (PST)
>Content-Length: 1273

>
> HOW TO VOTE
>
> Send MAIL to:   voting at f10.facts.uky.edu
> Just Replying should work if you are not reading this on a mailing list.
>
> Your mail message should contain one of the following statements:
>       I vote YES on comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
>       I vote NO on comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
>
> You may also ABSTAIN in place of YES/NO - this will not affect the outcome.
> Anything else may be rejected by the automatic vote counting program.  The
> votetaker will respond to your received ballots with a personal acknowledge-
> ment by mail - if you do not receive one within several days, try again.
> It's your responsibility to make sure your vote is registered correctly.
>
> One vote counted per person, no more than one per account. Addresses and
> votes of all voters will be published in the final voting results list.



>I urge all mathgroupers to vote NO to the proposed newsgroup.


>A moderated group will choke out any possibility of a non moderated
>newsgroup in the future. Yes, it is technically possible to have
>non-moderated newsgroup but in practice this rarely happens.

>The moderated format will shrink interest and input drastically. Thes two
>reasons combined will make the newsgroup basically useless.

>Vote NO!!!!

>Andrew


Is Andrew Laska suggesting that the mathgroup as it is (and now it is
moderated) does not work properly or it is strongly biased by the moderator
views? Is he offering to mantain an unmoderated news group taking charge
of the job ?

Vote YES


Riccardo Rigon, Ph. D.

Civil Egineering Department
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843
ph:  (409)-845-0335
fax: (409)-862-1542
e-mail: rrigon at zeus.tamu.edu




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