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- From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
- Newsgroups: news.groups
- Subject: Re: Intentional ignorance of newsgroup creation
- Message-ID: <1ehuarINNfvv@talon.UCS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 05:50:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.224509.4750@metrosoft.com> gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) writes:
- >There is an amount of extraneous information in "How to create a new
- >Usenet newsgroup" for the user wishing to vote (not to mention an
- >innapropriate title from a voter's point of view).
-
- Gordon -- have you bothered to read "How to create..."?
-
- Of course there is extranious info for those seeking only how to vote.
- The document ISN'T THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW TO VOTE. It is the
- instructions for how to CREATE NEW GROUPS. MOST of the procedure is NOT
- required knowledge for those seeking to vote.
-
- The part of "How to create..." that deals with how to vote is quite
- explicit in saying that the information on how to vote must be included
- in the CFV.
-
- >If you want people
- >to thoroughly read it and understand it, a "User's guide to Usenet voting"
- >would seem to be a good idea.
-
- How, pray tell, would you include the information on how to vote in such
- a manual, when the actual "how to vote" information differs for each and
- every vote? What email address would you put in your manual as the place
- to send votes? What format would you tell people to use for the vote?
-
- The only result such a manual would have is to confuse users. "The CFV
- says send mail to address X but the manual says Y. I sent mail to Y and
- got a bounce. I used the format in the manual and sent mail to X, and I
- was told that my vote wasn't counted. Why not?"
-
- >Such
- >narratives aren't really appropriate in the guidelines themselves are
- >they?
-
- Of course not. That is why the guidelines say they should be in the CFV.
-