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- From: phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie)
- Subject: Re: what does it take to get someone to vote?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.142741.18990@nastar.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Transmission Systems, Duluth, GA.
- References: <n1258t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:27:41 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <n1258t@ofa123.fidonet.org> Kay.Shapero@f524.n102.z1.fidonet.org writes:
- >On <Dec 17 12:40>, Spiros Triantafyllopoulos (1:103/208) wrote to All:
- > ST>Perhaps something more drastic is needed. Force the USENET
- > ST>newsreader
- > ST>programs to make it MANDATORY to vote on a certain percentage of
- > ST>CFV's
- > ST>otherwise they can't read news... Totally automate the voting
- > ST>process
- >
- >And I can imagine a LOT of people voting NO on everything just out of
- >sheer irritation... I'm not so sure it's really so desirable to have
- >everybody vote on usenet items - if the subject is neither one in which
- >the user has an interest nor one that is so badly misnamed, adequately
- >handled elsewhere or a Threat to the Net as We Know It (tm).. why SHOULD he
- >or she vote? What is the point?
-
- Not to mention that this would no doubt create a barrier to the acceptance of
- such newsreaders - why upgrade to them if Cnews lets you read w/o this
- hassle.
-
- I suppose that if the newsreader could automatically scan and report the
- outstanding RFD/CFV count, and the groups affected, as a separate command,
- this would be nice; this does have the problem with missing messages, history
- file retention, etc, however.
-
-
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