Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen
From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for Discussion: comp.lang.perl
Message-ID: <1689@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 89 21:23:37 GMT
References: <1989Oct4.210623.25802@indetech.com> <1989Nov21.174340.17172@talos.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <1989Nov21.174340.17172@talos.uucp> kjones@talos.uu.net writes:

| Isn't there a vote being taken on comp.lang.perl already?  How many
| people are on the perl mailing list?  I thought if a mailing list had
| over 100 members, the group was created forthwith without going through
| the long procedure demanded by the guidelines.

  No, sadly that's not true. When I brought that up a few years ago,
somebody quoted some obscure bit of purported "guideline" which said
that if a person on a mailing list didn't vote yes, the abstension had
to be counted as a no vote.

  If group creation was a simple and reasonable as you suggest I could
get rid of two mailing lists! Maybe we could get the fast approval
system going, or did that get talked to death, too?
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon