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From: mitchell@community-chest.uucp (George Mitchell)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Name Vote (was Re: REC.RADIO.SHORTWAVE voting results)
Keywords: rec.radio.shortwave passes
Message-ID: <80947@linus.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 89 20:20:38 GMT
References: <48092@bbn.COM> <2407@stl.stc.co.uk>
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Reply-To: mitchell@community-chest.UUCP (George Mitchell)
Organization: MITRE-McLean Software Engineering Laboratory
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In article <2407@stl.stc.co.uk> "David Wright" <dww@stl.stc.co.uk> writes:
`
`Thanks for this timely reminder of how much simpler and better things are
`when you *do* take the trouble to agree the name before the vote!   At one
`stage the 'swl' group had all the possibilities of a big name controversy,
`but Richard & Co took note of the discussion and suggestions and then put
`to the vote the above sensible name, which has now deservedly got a very
`positive result.
`
The same nice results were achieved with comp.object.  This group was
contending with comp.xxxx, comp.sw.xxxx, comp.lang.xxxx, yyyy.oops,
yyyy.obj, yyyy.obj-oriented and more.  What has been the reluctance in
making this mandatory?
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/s/ George   vmail: 703/883-6029
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