In article <1995Apr4.053242.28385@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com says...
>
>I wrote:
>
>> Two people have suggested in comp.std.c recently that it would be a
>> good idea to convert the newsgroup back to being moderated, assuming
>> that a suitable person or persons can be found to moderate.
>> ...
>> Do you like the general idea of converting this newsgroup to
moderated,
>> or not?  Please email me including EXACTLY ONE of the following lines:
>>       YES, the idea of converting comp.std.c to moderated sounds GOOD
>>       NO, the idea of converting comp.std.c to moderated sounds BAD
>> I don't want to know why you feel that way -- I just want a count.
>
>The result was 40 YES, 13 NO.
>
>In an actual vote on moderation run through the usual procedures -- I'll
>call it an "official vote" for short -- YES must exceed NO by a factor
>of 2 and a difference of 100.  The straw poll achieved the first of
>these, but not the second.  However, an official vote is called to the
>attention of a lot more people than those who saw my single posting,
>and a lot of people who wouldn't respond to a straw vote *would* respond
>to an official one.  I would expect an "official" vote on this subject
>to attract at least 250 responses, and my guess is that it would pass.
>
>If the proposal is to proceed, we need:
>
>        - One or more volunteers to moderate.
>        - One volunteer -- it could be one of the proposed moderators
>          -- to be the "newsgroup proponent" who will make the postings
>          that initiate discussion in news.groups and then call the
vote.
>          Preferably this should be someone with some experience in
>          reading news.groups.
>        - Some sort of consensus on the degree of moderation desired.
>          Anyone volunteering to moderate might like to say a few
>          words about what their style would be.
>
>I am not volunteering for anything, though I will be happy to make
>suggestions to the proponent if we have one.
>
>Is anybody volunteering?
>
>
>> I will then post the list of people who voted each way (the official
>> vote doesn't use a secret ballot, so I'll do it the same way), and
>> the list of people who responded but did not follow directions.
>
>YES votes in the order received (I like those first three names!):
>
>        Mark C. Orton
>        Mark Brader
>        Mark Ingram
>        Neal Gafter
>        Michael Quinlan
>        Jody Goldberg
>        J.T. Conklin
>        Dan Pop
>        Michael Morrell
>        David W. Glessner
>        Warner Pel
>        James M. Chacon
>        Mathias Grimmberger
>        M. van Leeuwen
>        Thomas Koenig
>        M. Manoj Kumar
>        Alex Esser
>        John Aldridge
>        Alan Bellingham
>        Christopher R Volpe
>        Peter Seebach
>        Michael Cook
>        Arne Henrik Juul
>        David B.Anderson
>        kosak@ADONIS.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU
>        Norman Diamond
>        Rick Perry
>        Malcolm Mladenovic
>        Ian Britten
>        Arkady Belousov
>        scott douglass
>        Mark Lacey
>        Shankar Unni
>        Martin Kealey
>        Ronald F. Guilmette
>        Mark Waite
>        ej@cfd.princeton.edu
>        Mikael Pettersson
>        Jari Kokko
>        D'Arcy J.M. Cain
>
>NO votes in the order received:
>
>        Jim Aragon
>        Larry Weiss
>        Paul Long
>        Steve Ness
>        Mike Lee
>        Jutta Degener
>        J. Stephen Adamczyk
>        Bernie Wolf
>        Larry Jones
>        Ron McFarland
>        Richard Deken
>        Jim Segrave
>        Ian Cargill
>
>People who did not follow directions:
>
>        Martin Kealey
>        ej@cfd.princeton.edu
>        Jim Segrave
>        Ian Cargill
>
>Speed of response statistics: these are the number of responses arriving
>in successive 12-hour periods from the original posting.
>
>        15 11 7 4 1 3 3 2 3 3 0 0 1
>
>--
>Mark Brader              |  "I always hoped that when someone quoted me
>msb@sq.com               |   it would be because I said something
profound."
>SoftQuad Inc., Toronto   |                              -- Chris Volpe
>
>This article is in the public domain.

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