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From: jwi@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Sci.ad.nauseum.aquaria redux
Summary: What to do about it
Message-ID: <1721@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 89 21:44:31 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <4848@ncar.ucar.edu>, woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) writes:
| 
|   I'd like to, but I really don't have the power to single-handedly 
| invalidate a vote. The best I can do is ask the other site admins
| on the net not to honor it if it should pass.
| 
|   I'm not sure what to do about this now. Personally, I think Richard has 
| blown it and that the only reasonable thing to do is leave the group in
| alt where it is doing just fine, and then maybe after this whole thing
| blows over someone can try running a vote for rec.aquaria or some other
| reasonable name which will probably be completely uncontroversial and
| pass easily.
| 
| --Greg

Personally, I think Richard has blown it too. In addition to urging NO 
votes, I would certainly urge any site admins on net not to honor it 
if it should pass.

Jim Winer -- The opinions expressed here are not necessarily
	     and do not represent nor in any way imply
	     of any other sane person and especially not
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"My reply is that such pre-theoretical conceptual essences are often
riddled with deep ambiguity and internal incoherence, despite strong
convictions people have that they know what they mean." -- Aaron Sloman