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From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
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Subject: Re: Some observations on this whole mess.
Message-ID: <1989Nov12.223427.7836@alembic.acs.com>
Date: 12 Nov 89 22:34:27 GMT
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In article <3031@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
>In article <1989Nov10.041227.6622@alembic.acs.com> csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes:
>>Then why didn't the YES voters vote NO to sci.aquaria and wait for the
>>"correctly" named group to roll around? The answer, IMVHO, is because
>>they felt that the name Richard selected was reasonable, that his
>>concerns about distribution were valid, and they saw no reason to wait
>>at least five weeks to make a handful of structure freaks happy.
>
>Aw, cmon. I doubt seriously that any significant fraction of the 466 YES
>voters gave ti that much thought. "Hey, I want an aquarium group! I'll
>vote YES!" 

WARNING TO SCI.AQUARIA "YES" VOTERS: Jay Maynard can READ YOUR MIND!
THINK NO IMPURE THOUGHTS!

Right, Jay. Not a one of them thought "Hey, Richard's got a point. If it's
in sci, we'll have better connectivity. We'll be able to discuss this
with the aquaria hotshots in Europe."

>	    Conversely, over 300 people most likely did give it that much
>thought. "Handful of structure freaks"? More like a handful of people
>who want to destroy the Great Renaming.

OK, Jay, you caught us. It *was* a conspiracy. We were all sitting
around one day and somebody said, "Hey, remember the Good Olde Days,
when all the groups were named net-something or mod-something? Don't
you just hate this new hierarchy thing?" So we came up with this plan
to undo the Great Renaming because none of us could figure out how to
build a time machine.

Get real, Jay. Did it ever occur to you that maybe not everyone
shares your priorities?

-- 
Dave Mack
Treasurer, People's USENET Liberation Army