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Re: Calling for Box Status and New Rule to vote on
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lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.general
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Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:38:00 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@NOVERA.spamcakeCOM
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Mookie wrote:
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> Ok Larry, (or anyone else) what do you think we should change?? I'm up
> for changes in it.. I just want something that will keep these boxes
> moving and not to all the same people, We've got people on the lists
> that have never received a box yet... and some <me included> who have
> received all that they wanted too.. I don't think that's fair.
I agree. Your proposed rule doesn't address the problem, though, which I
see as this: We did things first come first served. That's usually fair.
But in this case, what it resulted in was the following:
Person A discovered this thing. Person A asks to be put on all the
lists.
Person B ditto, person C ditto, person D ditto...
and you end up with a bunch of the lists having almost the same people
in almost the same order. Kind of laying down sediment layers, you can
drill in OK or in MI or in MA or even in the highlands of Africa, and
you find the same layers in the same order.
Maybe some more randomization is needed. Maybe we need to swirl all the
lists around so that all the boxes go around in different orders.
But your rule IS good in theory. I ain't the expert on what exactly
isn't workable but something about tracking who has what and determining
who to send to next based on whether someone has a box or not strikes me
as a bit hard to administer centrally and a bit unworkable for a person
deciding where to send a box... try working some scenarios and you'll
see what I mean.
Again, to reiterate, it's trying to tackle a worthy problem. Just not
sure if it's going to fix it. Randomization MIGHT, for less
administrative work. (just a periodic swirling... and never swirl the
person about to get a box to later in the list, just shuffle people
farther down around).
I am brainstorming, that's not the only answer by all means.
--
Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar
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