The official result, including the votetaker's explanation for the extraordinary delay (which makes interesting reading), is in news.announce.newgroups, Message-ID <833851386.24895@uunet.uu.net>. Or for people who only use Netscape: http://ww2.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/news?plain@msg@31323@news%2egroups news:833851386.24895@uunet.uu.net While I think I was one of the people presenting legitimate reasons for voting no (as opposed to all the "VOTE NO ON NAZIS!" -- see news.groups archives), I'm actually disappointed that there were only 592 yes votes. I'd have expected more than the estimated 400 anti-censorship and spam-annoyance reactions. I would urge people NOT to download the 3MB list of votes, as I haven't, because the vast majority of voters had no clue what they were voting on. The majority probably thought it was a secret ballot. The poor votetaker definitely deserves a medal, but PLEASE don't send him appreciative mail; he's getting far too much already. Sent separately to fight-censorship and cypherpunks. Followup discussion, if any, belongs in news.groups ONLY. -rich