In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
says...
>
>Of course, if it's truly "random", or even the "pseudo-random" variety
>that we get from computers, duplications are not only allowed, but
>expected a certain percentage of the time. Indeed, a system that actively
>avoids duplication would not qualify as a random-selection system, and
>could, depending on the use of the non-random selections, land the user
>in hot water.
>

What he may have meant was that in any year, the "selectees" should be randomly
selected from the set of people who have not been selected in previous years,
until such time as there are no such people.

--
Mark Landin
T. D. Williamson, Inc.
UNIX Sys. Admin (but an MPE-er too!)
"If you take the smooth, you gotta take the rough" -- Rob Halford