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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:44:36 -0700
To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>,
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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object
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At 07:35 PM 2/4/2003, Colin Percival wrote:

>  I think the voting must be restricted to committers, just because there is otherwise no good way of generating a voting list.  

I disagree. Witness what the World Science Fiction Convention
does to develop a list of Hugo voters from within the science fiction
community. It works. (And, contrary to what Greg suggests, no publisher
has ever been able to stuff the ballot box and "buy" a Hugo.)

--Brett


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