From: yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: Voting for ballot is under way;
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 05:38:02 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

olay@hydra2f.cs.utk.edu (Clay Breshears) writes:

- Just a few questions concerning the need for the following ballot vote.
-
- |> 2) The Yadon resolution for the Club's Listing be adopted
-
- Shouldn't the keeper of the list be the final arbiter on this question?
- Whatever format s/he thought best and fairest should be it.  Period.  If not,
- how about erring on the side of completeness and just adopt the propsed, very
- extensive and complete, format?  Why vote on it?

 According to Laurie Yadon, from last year, this would fish out some
fly-by-night operations.  Sorry, if seem to be misquoting you.  However, some
people might become uncomfortable with this.  I sat, the quote JNT and Jeff
Jacobs: "Let the people decide".  Also, I am having problems tfind a way of
posting the latest club listings. PLEASE be patient.

-
- |> 3) Add the following:
-
- To what?  The Club Listing?  If so, it now becomes more of a "Not-so FAQ, but
- neat information anyway" list.  Nothing wrong with that, though.  However...

  This body would be independent of both FAQ and Club's Listing.

-
- |>    a)  List television stations all over the world that broadcast Doctor
- |>        Who.
- |>    b)  Merge both Jim Miller, James Arstrong JR. and Frank Durda's Episode
- |>        Guide
- |>    AS well as
- |>        i) Listing the Planets that the Doctor Who has visited.
- |>        ii) And pardon the ignorance on this one, include actors, producers
- |>            and special guests that have appeared on an episode.
- |>    c)  List also the Model of TARDISes that are active.
- |>    d)  Pardon ignorance again, include the DW Movies.
- |>    e)  Official British contact to CONFIRM the lastest news from
- |>        the BBC, Doctor Who monthly, Dreamwatch Bulletin, and other
- |>        publications.
- |>    f)  Biographies of Doctors, some description  of villains, companions
- |>        and Timelords.
- |>    g) A timeline for the show.
- |>    h) A List of Doctor who novels.
- |>    The above to be MONTHLY publications.
-
- Keeping the above data and distributing it are very simple in and of
- themselves.  But, Holy Chrome!, putting it all together and keeping it curren
- is gonna be a royal pain.  Has anyone volunteered to compile such a compendiu
- of knowledge as outlined above?  If so, again I ask, why do we need to vote o
- it?  Let this overindustrious person have at it and be done with it.  If the
- info is not wanted by readers of r.a.dw when posted, they will skip it.
- However, if there is no one yet willing to spend the time and effort creating
- these documents, how will the net enforce their decision on wanting to have
- them available?  Shall we again vote on who we will force into performing
- these herculean tasks of gathering data?  Or will Dave be doing all that work
- if no one volunteers?

  The more people who read the group becomes aware of this, hopefully, the more
interest might be generated!!  As said before, it would up to someone to freely
volunteer to do this.  And I have a MAJOR problem with leaving this task one
person's hand: 1) too much space taken up on disk, 2) too much power centered
in one's hand and hence a risk of an ego-trip, something I hope to avoid.

- Also, the sheer volume of this (and non-usefulness to anyone that has already
- seen it once), suggests to me that monthly is too often, especially if they
- are available via FTP.  Posting 3-4 times a year should be plenty.  Best to
- correspond to new semesters and quarters starting around the world.

  Seriuos and reasonable option to consider.

-
- |>   Let us as readers of r.a.dw carefully consider the above resolution.
-
- My caution to the readers of r.a.dw is to carefully consider the need for
- (voting on) this resolution.

  As said before, it is your decision, "Free will is not an illusion".

-
- BTW, on 3.b.ii and 3.d above, are we also voting to pardon Dave's ignorance?
- If so, vote NO.

  No votes on pardoning; nuke me for lack of information.

-
-                                               clay
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Dave Shariff Yadallee (B. Sc. (Econ/Math) (U of Alberta 1990) )
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