On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Funny, I first read about AV only after I'd heard about IRV -- which I > knew as preference voting. AV was immediately attractive to me because it > was much simpler. It was only in the past couple of years that I learned > that IRV has all sorts of nasty properties.
Hi Paul (and the rest of the list), This illustrates one problem with using abbreviations on this list without qualifying them. As I was reading this, I was thinking by "AV" you meant "Alternative Vote", which clearly doesn't make sense. Nonetheless, it took me half of the message to figure out that you meant "Approval Voting". I probably should have known better, but there's a lot of people who probably don't know what you mean by "AV", since the word "Approval" appears nowhere in your message. It's a little more typing, but spelling out the abbreviation (at least the first time you use it) helps out a lot. Thanks Rob ---- For more information about this list (subscribe, unsubscribe, FAQ, etc), please see http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/em
