Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: A Completely Irrelevant Exercise in Poor Sportsmanship Message-ID: <7104@ficc.uu.net> Date: 26 Nov 89 02:14:52 GMT References: <4763@nigel.udel.EDU> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 53 In article <4763@nigel.udel.EDU> berryh@udel.edu (John Berryhill) writes: > Why is Peter Da Silva conducting a vote on a group that already exists? Because the group does not exist at many sites, and is blocked or aliased to alt.aquaria. As I pointed out in a previous article, the purpose of a vote is to convince people that a proposal is not flawed and has the support of the majority of the net. This proposal did neither. > Why was there no discussion period prior to this vote? You really want one? > Why is he using a voting scheme that has utterly no resemblance to the > generally accepted guidelines? Because the generally accepted guidelines have failed to establish the validity of and support for the proposal. > Why are his voting instructions biased against sci.aquaria? The instructions are not biased. I laid out my bias for everyone to see in the discussion section, which is more than some folks do. I have no hidden agenda. > Why did Greg Woods, knowing full well that this vote has no relationship > to any rules other than Da Silva's own delusions of grandeur, go ahead > and post it in news.announce.newgroups anyway? Because I told him to. I was originally planning on starting the vote six days earlier, but he required confirmation before posting it just like he's done with other non-guideline polls. > Why has Greg Woods repeatedly refused to put in n.a.n. an announcement for > a recently created mailing list that is a digest of alt.drugs while he > has carried announcements for other mailing lists? I don't know. He failed to announce the C-FUTURES mailing list until I reminded him of it. He said he lost my mail. > Is Greg Woods being a fair-minded and unbiased moderator? Scrupulously. > Does Peter Da Saliva have a mind at all? Technically, yes. /: A Completely Irrelevant Exercise in Poor Sportsmanship/:j -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame." -- Chuq Von Rospach, chuq@Apple.COM