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Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 17-Mar-84 23:36:39 EST
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uokvax!emjej    Mar 16 09:04:00 1984

Re a net.poll: if you could avoid ballot box stuffing, then it might be
nice to have some machine automatically track the ballots and create/delete
the groups, to avoid concurrency problems.

But then, I wonder whether it isn't a matter of a design error. Rather than
having a setup in which large amounts of time are spent discussing/ranting
about the existence (proposed or lamented) of a news group, shouldn't there
be a more flexible system, in which people post notes (possibly with keywords)
with specified (or implicit, based on keywords) distribution--if a topic
comes and goes, so be it. What is it about existing software that makes it
such a Terribly Important Question whether a news group exists?

						James Jones