X-Message-Number: 888 From: Kevin Q. Brown Subject: Re: Call For Votes: sci.cryonics Date: 11 Jun 1992 Subject: UNVOTES? I just realized last night that perhaps not everyone on the cryonics mailing list knows that votes for or against a USENET news group are NOT anonymous ballots, as we are used to having when voting for a President, Senator, etc. By necessity, to keep the game clean, when the voting period has ended, the vote collectors must post to USENET the list of everyone who voted and how they voted. This gives everyone an opportunity to correct any errors before the net.gods officially bless the vote and either create the new news group or prevent its creation. Why am I pointing out this detail to the cryonics mailing list? It is because there are a few people who prefer their membership on the cryonics mailing list to be anonymous. True, registering a vote for a sci.cryonics news group does not by itself also say that one is a cryonicist or even a member of the mailing list, but it does publicly register some interest in the topic. Frankly, I hope that nobody decides not to vote because of this feature of the standard USENET voting procedure, but, as in other aspects of cryonics, it is important for everyone to have INFORMED consent. If, by chance, you have already sent a vote to Tim Freeman and now do not want your vote to be counted (so that your interest in cryonics can remain anonymous) then send email to him at (NOT the email addresses for voting) requesting an UNvote. If you do not receive an acknowledgment within three days, then send email to me and I will take care of it. For everyone else, you can just ignore this message, and thank you for taking the time to vote. Kevin Q. Brown UUCP ...att!whscad1!kqb INTERNET COMPUSERVE >INTERNET: Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=888