woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) (12/04/89)
The votes have pretty much stopped coming in now. The result of this survey is quite consistent with the recent MAUVE survey done on suggested guidelines changes (although this one got more votes, probably because voting was much simpler in this case). The 2/3 rule was favored by a margin of 255-32, which was 88% of the total vote in favor. I have not scanned carefully for duplicates, but I'm convinced that not enough can be found to alter the result. I'm sure that also some votes were lost; anyone who replied to the survey article from a site which is configured to use the Path: line for replies instead of "From:" or "Reply-To:" had their vote go to /dev/null. Nevertheless, with the result I got plus the fact that the 2/3 rule placed first in the MAUVE survey, I think that is enough evidence to add the 2/3 rule to the guidelines. Consider it done. For those who are still following them, the guidelines now contain a provision that requires at least 2/3 of the total votes received to be YES votes, IN ADDITION TO the 100 vote margin yes over no, in order to consider that a group proposal has passed the vote. Voter names appear below. MAIL corrections to me and I will post a list of corrections (if any) at a later time. --Greg NO votes (32, 11%): "Hank Bovis" <hb@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> "Larry W. Virden Kell. 2487" <lwv27%CAS.BITNET> "MICHAEL KASPAR" <kaspar@chewi.che.wisc.edu> "Terry J. Wood" <TJW@vms.cis.pitt.edu> Andrew Boardman <amb@cs.columbia.edu> Dale C. Cook <cook@pinocchio.encore.com> David Stodolsky <stodol@diku.dk> Jeffrey James Bryan Carpenter <jjc@unix.cis.pitt.edu> LEDBETTE - ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY PROGRAM <ledbette@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> Stacy Weaver <stacy@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> Werner Uhrig <werner@rascal.ics.UTEXAS.EDU> adams@nmtvax.nmt.edu (Clifford Adams) amara!tom@sharkey.cc.umich.edu (Tom Doehne) ames!uts.amdahl.com!kim (Kim E. DeVaughn) bard@cs.cornell.edu (Bard Bloom) brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil ficc!jeffd@uunet.uu.net gatech!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386.Cactus.ORG!jfh (John F. Haugh II) gil@banyan.banyan.com (Gil Pilz@Eng@Banyan) howard@hasse.ericsson.se (Howard Gayle) ir515%sdcc6@ucsd.edu (John F. Reece) jj@alice.att.com kjones%talos@uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones) lear@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) lwv27%CAS.BITNET msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) saj@lucifer.psyc.Virginia.EDU (Steve Jacquot) wbt@cbnews.att.com williamt@Sun.COM (William A. Turnbow) xanadu!STella@uunet.uu.net YES votes (255, 88%): "Kurt Shoens" <SHOENS@IBM.COM> "Michael T. Sullivan" <sullivan%aqdata.uucp@jarthur.Claremont.edu> "Patricia O Tuama" <rissa@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> "Peter B. Hayward" <pbhx@tank.uchicago.edu> "REED CHRISTIANSEN" <christiansen@chewi.che.wisc.edu> "Richard Johnson, CSC, Univ. of Colorado, (303) 492-3758" "Sandra Jessica Smyth" <toto@tank.uchicago.edu> "Sonja Kueppers (814)862-8079" <SEK@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> "Steve Kanefsky" <kanefsky@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> /tmp/rma26970%tmpmbx.UUCP%TUB.BITNET 6500gsv%ucsbuxa@hub.ucsb.edu (George S. Vaughan) Bart Massey <bart%videovax.tv.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET> Ben Yalow <YBMCU%CUNYVM.BITNET> Bengt Larsson <bengtl@maths.lth.se> Benjamin Chase <bbc@rice.edu> Bert Hutchings <bert%aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK> Bill Hefley <weh@SEI.CMU.EDU> Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Bob Manson <manson@cis.ohio-state.edu> Brant Cheikes <brant@manta.pha.pa.us> Carlton B. Hommel <carlton@apollo.com> Catherine A. Foulston <cathyf@brazos.rice.edu> Charleen Bunjiovianna <charleen@ads.com> Charles Daffinger <cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Chris Eich <chrise@hpnmdla.hp.com> Chuq Von Rospach <chuq@apple.com> Cindy Tittle <tittle@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU> Cs211s14 <cs211s14@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Dan Schlitt <dan@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> Dan Veditz <dveditz@ashtate.A-T.COM> Darin McGrew <boulder!Sun.COM!mcgrew> Dave Mason <tmsoft!mason@csri.toronto.edu> David C Lawrence <tale@pawl.rpi.edu> David Chalmers <dave@cogsci.indiana.edu> David Klein <KLEIN%HUJIVMS.BITNET> Dick Dunn <rcd@ico.isc.com> Dirk Craeynest <dirk%BLEKUL60.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Eric J. Bowersox <erbo%apricot@hub.ucsb.edu> Fraser S. <fraser@lake.scar.utoronto.ca> Geoff Allen <geoff@uunet.uu.net> Gunnar Ekolin <ekolin@math.chalmers.se> Ian Crorie <idc%hci.heriot-watt.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK> J.M. Ivler 68727 -CMSSG- <ws25::jmi@devclu.mdcbbs.com> James da Silva <jds@cs.UMD.EDU> Jamie Andrews <jha%lfcs.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK> Jay Maynard <wuarchive!splut.conmicro.com!jay> Jeff Beadles <jeff%quark.wv.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET> Jeff Schultz <munnari!satori.cs.mu.OZ.AU!jws@uunet.UU.NET> Jeffrey L Bromberger <jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu> Jim Ault <ault@pawl.rpi.edu> Joel B Levin <levin@BBN.COM> John Early <jearly@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> John Gardiner Myers <jm36+@andrew.cmu.edu> John.Ockerbloom@GS6.SP.CS.CMU.EDU Kandiah Sribalaskandarajah <sri@blake.acs.washington.edu> Kannan Varadhan <kannan@cis.ohio-state.edu> Kenneth A Graves <kagraves@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Larry Setlow <pjt@cpac.washington.edu> Liz Allen-Mitchell <liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> Maarten Litmaath <maart@cs.vu.nl> Mark Brader <msb@sq.sq.com> Mark J. Boyd <mbunca@uncecs.edu> Matt S Wartell <msw@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Monica.Cellio@nl.cs.cmu.edu N. Christopher Phillips <ncp@math.ucla.edu> Network News <news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> PRICE@MPX1.LANL.GOV (John Price) Patrik Eschle <eschle@forty2.uucp> Peter Schroeder <peter@media-lab.media.mit.edu> Rich Kulawiec <rsk@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Rich Salz <rsalz@bbn.com> Richard H. Miller <rick@pavlov.bcm.tmc.edu> Rob Sartin <sartin@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> Robert C Lehman <rcl@jolt.cc.columbia.edu> Roger Hale <roger@ll-vlsi.arpa> Scott Huddleston <scott%tekcrl.labs.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET> Skip La Fetra <hpfcla!hpcea!hplabs!hpda!fel> Stephen Goldschmidt <aluko@Portia.stanford.edu> Svante Lindahl <Svante.Lindahl@front.se> Terry Poot <mccall!tp@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> Thomas E Dell <dell@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> Thomas Krueger <tjk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> Todd.Kaufmann@NL.CS.CMU.EDU Tom Wilson <wilson@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Tom.Lane@ZOG.CS.CMU.EDU allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) ames!amdahl!drivax!davison (Wayne Davison) ames!amdcad!cdr (Carl Rigney) ames!apple!netcom!teraida!mikel (Mikel Lechner) ames!apple!voder!nsc!taux01.nsc.com!crehta (Ran Ever-Hadani) ames!claris!sun!tc.fluke.COM!moriarty (Jeff Meyer) ames!elroy!gryphon.COM!mhnadel (Miriam Nadel) ames!omni.com!bob (Bob Weissman) ames!osc.osc.COM!jgk (Joe Keane) ames!rochester!cornell!beaver.cs.washington.edu!6sigma!blm (Brian Matthews) ames!terminus.UUCP!nyssa (The Prime Minister) arc!chet@apple.com arisco%cadillac.cad.mcc.com@mcc.com (John Arisco) asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan) austern@ux1.lbl.gov (Matthew Austern) avoncampe@milkwy.enet.dec.com (Alfred von Campe) avr@cs.purdue.edu (Andrew V. Royappa) baur@venice.sedd.trw.com (Steven L. Baur) bee@cs.purdue.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox) bengsig@nlhp3.oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) boulder!Sun.COM!briang (Brian Gordon) brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) bryce@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bryce Nesbitt) caa@garnet.ssd.cdc.com (Charles A. Anderson) cblpf!mark@att.att.com ce202a2@prism.gatech.edu (THOMAS, PETE (TEACHING ASSISTANT)) cew@ISI.EDU (Craig E. Ward) chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) chl%computer-science.manchester.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK ckd%bucsf.BU.EDU@bu-it.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) clewis%eci386@uunet.UU.NET (Chris Lewis) clt@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Carrick Talmadge) convex!white@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Tom White) cs@cblpe.att.com (Craig R Stevenson +1 614 860 7089) csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca dave@Galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com dawar@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Anuj Dawar) dbw%net1@ucsd.edu (David B. Wollner) debbie%das.llnl.gov@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Debra A. Callahan) dennett@Kodak.COM (Charlie Dennett) deramo@aitg.enet.dec.com (Daniel V. {AITG,ZFC}:: D'Eramo 17-Nov-1989 1804) dgaudet@watcsc.waterloo.edu (Dean Gaudet) dheeraj@cs.UMD.EDU (Dheeraj Sanghi) dietz@cs.rochester.edu djgrabin@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Joseph Grabiner) dmk@reykjavik.njin.net dparter@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David Parter) dupuy@hudson.cs.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy) dwillis@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Alden) eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) elf@minnie.cc.utexas.edu (jon gibson) elm%chilli.Berkeley.EDU@ginger.Berkeley.EDU (ethan miller) emv@math.lsa.umich.edu envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) erik@vitruvius.ar.utexas.edu (Erik Josowitz) everexn!karen@uunet.uu.net faigin@aerospace.aero.org ficc!birwin@uunet.uu.net ficc!peter@uunet.uu.net fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) gatech!chg.mcd.mot.com!heiby (Ron Heiby) gatech!cs.utexas.edu!execu!dewey (Dewey Henize) gatech!cs.utexas.edu!uunet.UU.NET!dciem!cognos!alzabo!kebera (Krishna E. Bera) gatech!cs.utexas.edu!uunet.UU.NET!watmath!xenitec.on.ca!edhew (Ed Hew) gatech!harvard!esegue.segue.boston.ma.us!johnl (John R. Levine) gatech!iuvax!attdso.att.com!tim (Tim J Ihde) gatech!iuvax!uiucuxc!gistdev.gist.com!jcj (Jeff Jones) gatech!iuvax!uiucuxc!gistdev.gist.com!joe (Joe Brownlee) gatech!mit-eddie!Alliant.COM!tj (Tom Jaskiewicz) gatech!mit-eddie!genrad.com!rob (Rob Wood) gatech!mit-eddie!prism.TMC.COM!roskuski (Barry J. Roskuski) gatech!motmpl!ron (Ron Widell) gatech!unmvax!bbx!russ (Russ Kepler) gervasio@rdrc.rpi.edu gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) glenn%miro.Berkeley.EDU@berkeley.edu (Glenn D. Adams) gmp@rayssd.ssd.ray.com (Greg Paris) gordon@cs.washington.edu (Gordon Davisson) gould%physics.usc.edu@usc.edu (Christopher Gould) grantham@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jon Grantham) gs26@prism.gatech.edu (Glenn R. Stone) gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) harris@basil-rathbone.mit.edu henry@utzoo.uucp ima!ima!karl@ima.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) inmet!justin@uunet.UU.NET (Justin du Coeur MKA Mark Waks) jack duston <@cvbnet.prime.com:jduston@robbie.prime.com> jeffw@scam.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Wallace) jes@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Joe Smith) jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) jinyuan@vortex.ecn.purdue.edu (Jin-Yuan Wang) jkimball@src.honeywell.com (John Kimball) john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US (John Owens) jxxl@cs.nps.navy.mil (John Locke) kutvonen@cs.Helsinki.FI (Petri Kutvonen) laura@jarthur.Claremont.edu leafusa!io!fairport!edb@uunet.UU.NET (Ed Blachman x4420) lisch@pdx.mentor.com (Ray Lischner) m2xenix!news@uunet.UU.NET (news aka randy) mackeown%compsci.bristol.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK mark zagorin <sl176011@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> markw@gvlf1.GVL.Unisys.COM mehl@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Mark M Mehl) mesard@WILMA.BBN.COM microsoft!peterdur@uunet.uu.net mit-eddie!Alliant.COM!tj@gatech.edu (Tom Jaskiewicz) mitchell@community-chest.mitre.org (George Mitchell) moj@polaris.utu.fi (Matti Jokinen) moss%takahe@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) muir@CSI.COM (David Muir Sharnoff) munnari!cs.mu.oz.AU!djk@uunet.UU.NET munnari!melba.bby.oz.au!zvs@uunet.UU.NET (Zev Sero) munnari!runxtsa.runx.oz.au!mjharris@uunet.UU.NET (Michael Harris) munnari!wcc.oz.au!neil@uunet.UU.NET (Neil Murray) mwj%beta@LANL.GOV (William Johnson) nih-csl!elsie!ado@uunet.UU.NET (Arthur David Olson) oliver@ATHENA.MIT.EDU olorin@dewey.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Weinstein) ontek!mikey@uunet.UU.NET (Michael E. Lee) ora!ambar@uunet.UU.NET (Jean Marie Diaz) palmer@hsi.com (Mike Palmer) pas%kong@gatech.edu (Paulo Santos) peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz) phavl!rob@uunet.UU.NET (Robert Ransbottom) pick@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Roger Pick) pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) pyrdc!eliot!janm@uunet.UU.NET (Jan Morales) quiroz@cs.rochester.edu rae%alias%csri.utoronto.ca@alias.UCAR.EDU (Reid Ellis) ralph@lzfme.att.com (Ralph Brandi) randall@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) rfm@Sun.COM (Rich McAllister) richardt@mica.berkeley.edu (Richard Threadgill) rick%essex.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK rshapiro@WILMA.BBN.COM russotto@mordor.eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) rutgers!cmcl2!dasys1!wfp (William Phillips) rwilliam@grebyn.com (Roger Williams) schinder@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Paul Schinder) scifi!njs@uunet.UU.NET (Nicholas J. Simicich) servalan!root@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu shadooby!ginosko!samsung!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!Sun.COM!katleman (David Katleman) shadooby!ginosko!samsung!uunet!staceyc (Stacey Campbell) shane@disney.crd.ge.com (Randall H Shane) shz@ho7cad.att.com (Sally Handy-Zarnstorff) sksircar@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Subrata Sircar) sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) ssbell!mcmi!denny@uunet.uu.net (Denny Page) stefano@dewey.phyast.pitt.edu (Stefano Casertano) steven%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu stuart@natinst.com (Don Stuart) syd@dsinc.dsi.com (Syd Weinstein) tarvaine@jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) tessera!jtc@wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin) tower@bu-it.BU.EDU tpalm@src.honeywell.com (Tom Palm) ttwang@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Thomas Wang) urlichs%smurf.ira.uka.de@RELAY.CS.NET utai!watmath!watcgl!electro!carlo (Carlo Sgro) utzoo!eci386!jmm@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (John Macdonald) van-bc!tacitus!seneca!tbr (Tom Rushworth) vicorp!charlie@uunet.UU.NET (Charlie Goldensher) walter garcia-fontes <walt@Portia.stanford.edu> wedgingt@nike.cair.du.edu (Will Edgington) woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) wuarchive!attctc.Dallas.TX.US!linimon (Mark Linimon) zqli@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Zhenqin Li)