Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!athena1!williamt From: williamt@athena1.Sun.COM (William A. Turnbow) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Give it up, folks Message-ID: <127928@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 15 Nov 89 21:29:11 GMT Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: williamt@sun.UUCP (William A. Turnbow) Lines: 23 In article <36505@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: > >>Is the value derived from a newgroup by the 500-yes versus 10-no that >>much more important than the value derived by, say 500-yes versus 401-no. >>Why should your strong negative feelings about a newsgroup prevent me >>from benefitting from it? > >*My* strong negative feelings mean nothing. But a general strong negative >feeling from the network is a warning flag that something's wrong. ------------- Why is it that something is wrong? To use a variant on a previous example. If we have 100 , and 1000 mainstream WASPS, if the 100 want to form a newsgroup, then the 1000 can probably pretty easily block that simply because they don't like the UM. Is that fair to the UM? Is that right? Unless all of the negative voters are voting for something other than prejudicial, or personal dislikes, a no vote, IMHO, would not be right or fair. -wat- --- An it harm none, do what you will.