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From: berryh@udel.edu (John Berryhill)
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Subject: Re: A Completely Irrelevant Exercise in Poor Sportsmanship
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Date: 26 Nov 89 16:59:58 GMT
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In article <+0#S0.@splut.conmicro.com> jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
>>Why was there no discussion period prior to this vote?
>
>No discussion? NO DISCUSSION? Have you ignored the terabytes of
>discussion over the past couple of months, drowning out all else here?

There was no discussion for this particular vote.  There was the required
14 day discussion period for the sci.aquaria vote, but I never saw a
specific call for a discussion concerning an STV vote for *.aquaria.

>>Why is he using a voting scheme that has utterly no resemblance to the
>>generally accepted guidelines?
>
>Because it's the only way of settling the aquaria controversy.

And anyone may select any voting scheme they like?  Is this the new
way to create groups?  Fine.  Everybody in favor of
comp.protocols.tcp-ip.eniac raise your hand...  Looks like the group
passes as the majority of people I see have their hand up.

>>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 suspect, it was a legitimate call for votes.
>(Am I right, Greg?)

It is not a legitimate vote.  Who or what conferred legitimacy upon this
vote?  Since when is DaSaliva's STV scheme the approved method of
newsgroup creation?

> For that
>matter, why should he, especially since he doesn't support the use of
>illegal drugs with his machine anyway?

The reason I brought it up was to point out that Woods is being a biased
moderator.  So, news.announce.newgroups exists to announce the groups and
lists that Greg *likes*, is that what you're saying.  Furthermore, reading
words on a screen and using drugs are two entirely different activities.

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							      John Berryhill
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