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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: A proposal for a modified voting rule
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 11:20:09 EDT
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> I propose the following rule -- each site can generate a weighted vote
> on any subject. The weight of the vote is equal to the number of
> OUTGOING news feeds a site supports.  This means that a backbone such
> as hplabs would have a weighted vote of about 7, nsc would be 3, and a
> leaf node that feeds news to nobody gets no vote at all. The weights
> can be generated from the mod.map data, giving people a reason to get
> their data in their and keep it up to date -- if you aren't on the map,
> you don't exist. We exclude feeds between machines in the same building
> since that isn't supporting the outside world.

YES! As a leaf site administrator, I hereby vote to disenfranchise myself.

	-- peter@baylor.UUCP