Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site neuro1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!neuro1!sob From: sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: voting methods Message-ID: <656@neuro1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 03:05:49 EST Article-I.D.: neuro1.656 Posted: Tue Nov 5 03:05:49 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Nov-85 04:28:24 EST Reply-To: sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber) Organization: Neurophysiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx Lines: 34 A few questions and thoughts on voting. I think that voting here is haphazard at best. I think it could be automated much as the other control messages are automated on usenet. If a vote need be taken, a control message (call it getvote) is issued on the network. When the news software encounters this message (when user is reading the group), it asks the user to cast a vote (Yes, No, No Opinion) and perhaps asks for comments. The user casts a vote, and the software stores the vote for later tabulation. This tabulation could occur on each machine on the net and the "batched" results would be forwarded back to the originator of the getvote control message, or each vote could be forwarded back (I know the last one is easy to implement, but would weigh down the network alot). The expire program would remove the getvote message and voting would close. Results could be tabulated by the getvote originator and posted to net.news.group and the "will of the net" determined. Now the questions: 1. Is this a good idea, or am I just wasting bandwidth? 2. If it is a good idea, would requests for votes be posted to net.news.group for new groups or rmgroups or should it be posted to net.general or some place where more people would have a chance to vote? 3. What about sites that continue to run archaic netnews or notes? What if anything should be done for them? Thoughtful comments welcome by mail or here. I summarize any mail I get on this topic to this group. -- Stan uucp:{ihnp4!shell,rice}!neuro1!sob Opinions expressed Olan ARPA:sob@rice.arpa here are ONLY mine & Barber CIS:71565,623 BBS:(713)660-9262 noone else's.