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From: randall@uvaarpa.virginia.edu (Randall Atkinson)
Newsgroups: news.groups,soc.culture.misc
Subject: Re: ******** Call For Votes about creating soc.culture.asean ********
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Date: 27 Oct 89 00:50:21 GMT
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Reply-To: randall@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson)
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I am not ignorant about SE Asia or the ASEAN countries nor have I
any particular axe to grind tonight.  I voted NO to soc.culture.asean
and encourage others to do likewise because SEVERAL reasonable alternative
names were proposed and a strong consensus became clear in the
official discussion period that the name was widely thought to be
a poor choice.

The ad hominem attacks by Casey The in the article I'm following
up to were uncalled for and unfortunate.