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=== The first message ===

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Subject: New "election-methods" list<br/>

From: Rob Lanphier <ref name="robla-at-eskimo">robla@eskimo.com was Rob's personal email address at the time. See the archived version of "[https://web.archive.org/web/19970825175036/http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/#misc " http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/#misc] to see my PGP key at the time.</ref><br />

Date: Thu Feb 15 21:34:05 PST 1996<br />

To: [elections-reform, election-methods]<ref>[[User:RobLa]] is pretty sure he sent this email to both [[ER-list]] and [[EM-list]]</ref><br />

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I'm starting up an "election-methods-list" list to discuss single-winner<br/>

reform, the relative merits of different PR systems, and the technical<br/>

underpinnings of all election methods. This list is intended to <br/>

compliment, not to replace, the existing "elections-reform" list. <br/>

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Please continue to discuss the various electoral reform movements in the<br/>

U.S. and throughout the world in the "elections-reform" list. <br/>

"elections-reform" is still the best forum for discussing strategies used <br/>

in reform campaigns, specific legislation addressing reform, and <br/>

educational material about reform.<br/>

</p><p>

What is the difference, you ask? "election-methods-list" discussions will<br/>

most likely be more technical in nature, with the ultimate goal of<br/>

providing recommendations and educational material to the members of<br/>

"elections-reform". There have been complaints in the past that<br/>

discussions on "elections-reform" have been too technical, and<br/>

"election-methods-list" has been created to offload the more prolific<br/>

technical discussions to "elections-reform". It lets folks use<br/>

"elections-reform" to stay abreast of current activity in electoral<br/>

reform without fear of their inbox exploding. <br/>

</p><p>

To subscribe to "election-methods-list", send mail to majordomo at eskimo.com<br/>

with no subject line (any subject will be ignored), and the following one<br/>

line in the body of your message: <br/>

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subscribe election-methods-list

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My apologies to anybody who stumbled on the web page that I set up a week<br />

ago at <code><nowiki>http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/cpr/election-methods.html</nowiki></code><ref>User:RobLa's old "politics" page can now be found at Internet Archive at this address: [https://web.archive.org/web/19970817085911/http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/politics/index.html http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/politics/index.html]</ref> and tried <br/>

to subscribe (and failed, because the list didn't exist yet). In the time I<br/>

was waiting for the list to get set up, I set up the web page.<br />Everything should *now* work according to the instructions on that page.<br />

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That's all there is to it. Let me know if you have any questions about <br />the new list.<br />

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Thanks,<br />Rob Lanphier<br />[<insert Rob's old email address here>]<ref name="robla-at-eskimo" /><br />[https://web.archive.org/web/19970825175036/http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/ http://www.eskimo.com/~robla] [<< Rob's old website]

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^^ That's not the only message that was sent in 1996. See the following links for other messages:

* February: ([http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com//1996-February/thread.html Thread]), ([http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com//1996-February/subject.html Subject]), ([http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com//1996-February/author.html Author]), ([http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com//1996-February/date.html Date]), ([http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-February.txt.gz 1996-February.txt.gz])