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From: gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: "No" votes mean something.
Message-ID: <5423@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 89 20:47:22 GMT
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Organization: York University   Department of Philosophy
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chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:

| According to stodol@freja.diku.dk (David Stodolsky):

| >Reading of comments received with groupware "no" votes [...]
| >No votes often reflect misunderstanding, ignorance, or just not
| >being serious.

| Here's the punchline.  "People voting against _my_ group are ignorant,
| joking, or just don't understand the situation."  Yeah, right.

Corollaries:





poor logic--poor rhetoric

nrg


If you agree with me, you are obviously correct.
If you disagree with me, you obviously misunderstood the question.

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