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From: bee@cs.purdue.EDU (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Some observations on this whole mess.
Keywords: aquaria
Message-ID: <8624@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 89 01:53:37 GMT
Reply-To: bee@cs.purdue.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
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Dave Mack blathers out the following:
|(in response to Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
|
|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."

Here's a little exercise for you.  Send mail to everyone who voted
YES.  Ask them if they know where in the world the most knowledgeable
aquaria experts are.  If over 10% of them say Europe, I'll personally
apologize for all of my flames against the sci.aquaria folks and come
out in support of sci.aquaria.

The facts are, over 90% of the YES voters either didn't give a damn
and voted for it just because it was an aquaria newsgroup, or voted
for it purely out of net.politics.  Jay has hit the point nearly
exactly, and you're just being a flaming idiot.

|>	    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.

Richard and his buddies look upon the Great Renaming in much the same
way that politicians look upon promises: nice to have around, but the
first time it gets inconvienent, dump it.  How much different is that
than "wanting to destroy the Great Renaming"?  Not zarking much.

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

The net would be a much better place if more did.

                                          B.E.E.
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