At 14:48:19 on Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Mark 
<i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid> wrote in 
:

>OK.  I am confused why releasing acknowledgements in batches is useful
>though.

It doesn't have to be in batches, and it very usually isn't.  That was a 
fiction of Wm...'s.  Occasionally, when there are dual votetakers, it is 
theoretically possible that acks might be sent out in batches;  but I 
don't remember it ever happening, and it's very unlikely, because it 
doesn't take two to agree in order to ack a vote.  This is because an 
ack is not an irreversible approval/acceptance of that vote;  it is 
simply an acknowledgement of receipt.  The vote can be approved or 
disapproved afterwards, when appropriate investigation has taken place.

The votetaker has five days in which to acknowledge a vote. This is 
because the votetaker has a RealLife[TM].  There are, believe it or not, 
sometimes more important things in this world than Usenet.
-- 
Molly
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