From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!ucbvax!poli-sci Newsgroups: fa.poli-sci Title: Poli-Sci Digest V2 #152 Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7964 Posted: Thu Jul 8 23:14:44 1982 Received: Fri Jul 9 05:22:23 1982 >From JoSH@RUTGERS Thu Jul 8 23:09:56 1982 Poli-Sci Digest Fri 9 Jul 82 Volume 2 Number 152 Contents: Censorship Voting Rights All The Various Mailing Lists ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 6 Jul 1982 2340-PDT From: FC01A new issue (an old issue?)! I recently saw a copy of a letter requesting a certain group of researchers not to present publicly the results of their work. I think it has something to do with 'national security' although it did not say so explicitly. Perhaps the whole concept of 'censorship' is worthy of discussion, but I am interested in specific information about scientific censorship including court rulings, legal opinions, scientific opinions, flames about your experiences with this, etc. I am partially yours, (name not disclosed for security reasons) ------------------------------ Date: 8 Jul 1982 02:33:12-PDT From: npois!npoiv!harpo!decvax!minow at Berkeley Subject: The right not to vote... In Scandinavia, where the voting rates average around 90%, there is a tradition of "roesta blank" -- voting a white (i.e., blank) ballot. This gives the message "I voted, but didn't agree with any of the alternatives." The only time I looked, there were about 4% white ballots in Sweden, which is about the voting percentage of the least popular of the major parties (the Left Party Communists). It would be very interesting if the Australian ballot method could be implemented on a large scale in the U.S. There, you rank your preferences. If nobody gets a majority of first-place votes, the ballots which gave first-place to the least popular alternative are pulled. They are then assigned to their respective second-place choices, and so on. This guarantees an eventual majority decision. (Sorry if the above was unclear.) The Australian ballot is used here for Science Fiction Hugo ballots, and I have seen it in one smallish Massachusets town meeting. Martin Minow decvax!minow @ berkeley ------------------------------ Date: 6 Jul 1982 2325-PDT From: Zellich at OFFICE-3 (Rich Zellich) Subject: Mailing-list for "List of lists" update notices For those of you not previously aware of it, I maintain a master list of ARPANET mailing-lists/digests/discussion groups (currently 756 lines or ~29,000 characters) on OFFICE-3 in file: INTEREST-GROUPS.TXT For ARPANET users, OFFICE-3 supports the net-standard ANONYMOUS login within FTP, with any password. To keep people up to date on the large number of such lists, I have established a mailing list for list-of-lists \update notices/. I do not propose to send copies of the list itself to the world at large, but for those ARPANET users who seriously intend to FTP the updated versions when updated, I will send a brief notice that a new version is available. For those counterparts at internet sites who maintain or redistribute copies for their own networks (DECNet, Xerox, etc.) and can't reach the master by ARPANET FTP, I will send out the complete new file. I do \not/ intend to send file copies to individual users, either ARPANET or internet; our system is fairly heavily loaded, and we can't afford it. There is no particular pattern to the update frequency of INTEREST- GROUPS.TXT; I will occasionally receive a burst of new mailing-lists or perhaps a single change of address for a host or mailing-list coordinator, and then have a long period with no changes. To get on the list, send requests to ZELLICH@OFFICE-3, \not/ to the mailing-list this message appears in. Cheers, Rich ------------------------------ End of POLI-SCI Digest - 30 - -------