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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Some observations on this whole mess.
Message-ID: <3030@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: 11 Nov 89 10:46:41 GMT
References: <11171@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2752@cpoint.UUCP> <6803@ficc.uu.net> <1989Nov4.170406.11407@alembic.acs.com> <1989Nov10.034953.6351@alembic.acs.com>
Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
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In article <1989Nov10.034953.6351@alembic.acs.com> csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes:
>>	     The voters mainly care about whether or not a group exists,
>>not whether it's correctly named.
>Dead right. Which is why a handful of Namespace Purists shouldn't be allowed
>to deprive them of it.

OK, fine. I await with bated breath your proposal to rename {comp, news,
misc, sci, talk, rec, soc}.* to net.*.

Someone earlier mentioned that they'd rather see the group created with
the wrong name than no have it created at all. I take the opposite view,
for one reason: it's much easier to fix a mistake in that direction. If
sci.aquaria had failed, a vote for rec.aquaria would have followed
almost immediately, and would almost certainly have passed
overwhelmingly. Instead, we have made the mistake, and are condemned to
putting up with it forever, or at least until the next Great Renaming.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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Shall we try for comp.protocols.tcp-ip.eniac next, Richard? - Brandon Allbery