Re: [ga] List moderation

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

On 12-Nov-99 Joop Teernstra wrote:
> At 12:29 AM 12/11/1999 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
>>On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 07:17:40PM +1200, Joop Teernstra wrote:
>>[...]
>>> The re-railing proposal was ratified by 16 members, with 4 voting against.
>>> In the key Vote for or against direct democracy, 44 voters participated.
>>[...]
>>> The membership stands at 160. Voting is voluntary.
>>
>>That is, the "re-railing" proposal was approved by a tenth of the 
>>claimed membership.
>>
> 
> And  2.5% did *not* want the organizing effort to resume.  
> 
> Those who have a right to vote will vote if they *want* to vote. 
> To have a right to vote is what is important.
> 

And the fact that so many choose not to says quite a lot.  I would bet there are
many on the membership roles who actually no longer even want to be members any
longer, but didn't bother to take the time to tell you that.

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