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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Suspicious Results of sci.aquaria vote
Message-ID: <6985@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 16 Nov 89 01:59:54 GMT
References: <21910@gryphon.COM> <4323@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> <SHAFER.89Nov8153646@drynix.dfrf.nasa.gov> <18175.25612d86@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <4199@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <4199@nigel.udel.EDU> berryh@udel.edu (John Berryhill) writes:
> I can't believe the number of people that believe that campaigning and
> canvassing for votes is "dishonest."

Well at the least it's ungentlemanly.

The appropriate protocol is to inform people by posting the "call for votes"
to associated groups. People who don't read news are disenfranchised, but
that's reasonable... after all, they don't read news.

The primary reason for creating a newsgroup is excessive volume in an
inappropriate group. Or didn't you know that? That's how the guidelines
are designed. They weren't designed to deal with massive politicking.

That is being corrected. We're getting more and more bureaucracy, thanks
to people who don't appreciate the reasons behind guidelines. Active
campaigning is just a short step from something like:

$ awk-F:  '$2 > 100 { print $1 , "'"$5"'"}' /etc/passwd |
	while read X Y
	do
		forgemail -s 'Vote NO' -f $X richard@gryphon << EOF
I vote NO to sci.aquaria
-- $Y
EOF
	done
$
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