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- From: randall-joshua@yale.edu (Joshua Randall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.groups,alt.sources.d,news.misc
- Subject: Should SHAREWARE be posted in comp.sources.misc
- Keywords: Vote, shareware, sources.misc
- Message-ID: <1ejd2mINN2uv@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:08:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.171751.25602@sparky.imd.sterling.com>
- Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering UNIX(tm), New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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- I've got a whole lot of problems with this message.
-
- In article <1992Nov20.171751.25602@sparky.imd.sterling.com> votes@sparky.sterling.com writes:
- >There has been an on going discussion as to whether SHAREWARE is
- >acceptable for posting in the group comp.sources.misc. This has
- >been a topic that flares up everytime that a piece of SHAREWARE
- >is posted to the group. [...]
-
- To aid us in our decision, could you inform those who do not read the "sources"
- group what the charter of that group says about appropriate posts? (I real-
- ize that a resourceful man like myself should be able to find the charter on
- his own, but perhaps there are others who are less resourceful out there.)
-
- >I am running a vote to once and for all decide whether of not
- >SHAREWARE should be posted to comp.sources.misc. If you feel
- >that SHAREWARE is (un)acceptable then let me know via a vote.
-
- This is fine, but calling this is CFV is *not* OK! For one thing, I haven't
- seen *any* discussion of this on news.groups, let alone a formal RFD.
-
- >VOTING PROCEDURE:
- [deletion]
- >The vote will continue until Midnight, December 5, 1992. At that
- >time I will tally and abide by the results of the vote. A simple
- >majority wins.
-
- If a simple majority wins then this is by no means a formal CFV and should
- not be called one.
-
- So, in summary:
-
- (1) Post the charter
-
- (2) Ask for discussion, and then hold a formal RFD
-
- (3) If there is interest, post a CFV which follows the guidelines.
-
- *******
-
- A thought occurs to me. Perhaps all these guidelines are merely ways for
- we "elitist" users to hide behind a bureaucracy? (Gag!) Maybe what the
- UseNet needs is *more* anarchy, not less? In the case of this "vote", I
- think it is important that a quick decision be reached, more important than
- that the decision be an "official" one.
-
- --
- Joshua E. Randall randall-joshua@yale.edu
-