Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Results of sci.aquaria vote Message-ID: <6939@ficc.uu.net> Date: 13 Nov 89 15:19:04 GMT References: <10347@encore.Encore.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Distribution: na Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 32 In article <10347@encore.Encore.COM> cook@encore.com writes: > [peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) recently posted that: > |"If you start out by breaking the law, why should you expect it to hide > |you?" Not quoted from anyine. Richard deliberately called for a vote > |before there was general agreement on the name. That is explicitly > |prohibited in the guidelines. "Oh, I'm sorry I cheated. But we have > |to play the hand through anyway". > Oh, Horsefeathers! The discussion over foo.aquaria raged long and > without any sign of convergence. Horsefeathers yourself. He should have acceded to the wishes of the obvious majority (and don't give me any bloody grief over that word. It's obvious by now that his vote doesn't represent the wishes of anyone but Richard Sexton) and held the vote for "REC.AQUARIA". He told me in as many words that rec.aquaria was probably a better name. > He did. The result is > in. Let's get on with it! As Barry Shein so well pointed out: WHO > CARES ANYWAY??? It's just another directory leaf. No, it's yet another precedent. Like sci.skeptic. Except this time the guy who got the group created hasn't admitted he made a mistake. I think the next stage would be to campaign in Europe to get the major sites to go along with a boycott. After all, it's they who he really was attacking. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "*Real* wizards don't whine about how they paid their dues" -- Quentin Johnson quent@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu