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From: vote@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (Comp.archives voting)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Posting and Counting Votes
Summary: a simple solution.
Message-ID: <7211@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 28 Sep 88 04:15:42 GMT
References: <4808@juniper.uucp> <7042@ki4pv.uucp>
Sender: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US
Reply-To: vote@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (Comp.archives voting)
Organization: HASA, "S" Division
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In article <7042@ki4pv.uucp> tanner@ki4pv.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
>Before voting  starts,  but  after  the  discussion  period,  the
>central   vote   administrator  would  be  contacted,  given  the
>newsgroup name and a person to whom comments might be  forwarded.
>Then,  votes  (yes  or no) would be mailed to the magical address
>(say, "votes@lucky_site"), where they would be tabulated and  the
>comments forwarded.

the approach i took with my recent comp.archives vote was to edit the
Reply-To: and From: lines to give the address of the vote taking mailbox.
then, inside the article i requested the reader to simply reply to the
article and edit the Subject: line to give the vote.

the net result of this approach has been 246 votes received in about
2 weeks.  by requesting the vote be placed on the Subject: line i can
see how the vote is going by looking at the output of an 'h' command.

this is the second vote i've taken this year, and by far the easiest.
i have no complaints about having to work my butt off, in particular
since i've not bothered to send replies or acknowlegements!  [ not to
worry, i have so many votes a few lost ones are not going to make a
difference. ]

oh yes - if you haven't voted on comp.archives [ a newsgroup for posting
archive site information ], please reply to this letter and edit the
Subject: line to indicate your choice.  ain't that easy?