Actually more of a
survey than a
vote, this post to
news.announce.newgroups is an important part of the
newsgroup creation process. It asks interested readers of
USENET to email a decision on a proposed
newsgroup: YES, NO, or ABSTAIN. Readers are asked to vote YES only if they plan to
use the group, NO only if the group proposal has some serious flaw in it, or ABSTAIN (or not vote) otherwise.
A group vote requires a supermajority of 2/3 of the aggregate vote and at least 100 YES votes to pass.