Re: PROPOSAL: Vote on FAQ Revision

From: soliiigm@aol.com (Sol III GM)

Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Graeme Griffiths said:
>soliiigm@aol.com (Sol III GM) writes:
>>  Please now that you have read it, post your vote here.  If the margin
is
>>great enough, and the votes numerous enough, we might see this whole
>>argument laid to rest instead of having to re-fight it every 6 months.
>
>Nice, FAQ revision, sadly let down by your complete lack of knowledge of
how
>Usenet works. "Please ... post you vote" you really are a dork aren't
you.

Actually, I have been on Usenet pretty solidly for two years, and off
and on for two years before that.  Before I posted this, I read up on
everything that I could find on Usenet proceedures.  There *is no
proceedure listed in any FAQ in the news.* groups that I could find*.  In
fact, several of them went out of their way to say that there was no
proceedure, since Usenet is not a democracy, and no vote is binding.
  In other words, I do understand how Usenet works, I know that the
general tradition (and it's only a tradition since there is no set
proceedure here) is that such votes are conducted via E-Mail, and that
further, the tradition is that some people will ignore the results of such
votes no matter how overwhelming the majority is.
  I will be happy to run this as an E-Mail vote if Greg will agree to
abide by the results.

>Why is it that the only ones mis-quoting and flaming Greg and then
arguing a
>point that was dead and buried a long time ago are all on aol.... (are
they
>different people ?).

Not that I have seen it going on, but why bother misquoting Greg?  His
actual quotes are more fun.
  AOL has over 13 million subscribers.  It is home to 19 PBM companies
that have their own specific areas on AOL and about 40 that just use AOL
as an E-Mail and Web Access area.  Looking over the list of people voting,
5 of them are involved with Sol III (out of the 80 or so players we have)
and presumably have been talking among themselves.  One of the AOL people
is the publisher of a PBM newsletter.  One of them appears to just be a
random PBM player.  So yeah, I would say they are all different people.

>If you want me to set up a vote on this I will. Please email me if you
can't
>do it yourself (Clue: You usually set up a vote by email and then publish
>the results, the trick is to keep all the votes in case someone
dis-believes
>the results).

Clue:  I am aware that that is the way it is usually done for things
like charter changes and new group formations.  However, this is a special
case in so many ways, it's not even funny.  There is no proceedure listed
for FAQ changes, because a FAQ is supposed to reflect a group, and thefore
should never come to a silly point such as this.  Yes, this is a silly
thing to be doing, but when a clear majority of a Group is being told that
the only way they will be heard is by forming a new newsgroup, then silly
things must be done.

>NOTE: DO NOT POST VOTES ON THIS ISSUE. Its a huge waste of bandwidth.

If you feel it's a waste of bandwidth, E-Mail me your vote, as several
people already have.  I am saving all E-Mail related to this thread
already, and will be happy to post the full results.

Eagle
Sol III Game Master
Sol III Play By E-Mail Role Playing Game
http://members.aol.com/soliiigm/

Friends come and go.  Enemies accumulate.

References

Re: PROPOSAL: Vote on FAQ Revision
graeme@discreet.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)
Wed, 02 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: PROPOSAL: Vote on FAQ Revision
graeme@discreet.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)
Wed, 02 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000