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From: cook@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Dale C. Cook)
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Subject: Results of sci.aquaria vote
Summary: Actually about the will of the majority and so forth
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Date: 27 Nov 89 17:51:43 GMT
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[allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) recently posted that: 
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|Which is perfectly all right when you're in business.  Ncoast is not a
|business, we do not charge for use (although we request donations), and Rich
|Garrett pays a heck of a lot of money monthly with NO return.  None.  So you
|are going to order him to continue doing it, or threaten us with some ill-
|defined shunning?  B*llsh*t.  If the Usenet ever came down to that, ncoast
|would most assuredly drop it completely because it's no longer worth the
|hassle.  But in any case, your "shunning" would have been initiated on *our*
|end already, so threatening to cut off what we have already refused is pretty
|meaningless.
|
Well I have no idea what Ncoast is or is not, but if you are in business
for profit it is probably a good idea to take into account the will of
the majority of your workers when possible.  Happy workers are productive
workers.  Every year there are articles published on the ten best managed
places and the ten worst.  Mostly the best pay attention to workers.  And
the cost of a newsfeed is a lot less than a lot of so-called benefits.

|All this stuff and nonsense about "the will of the majority" with respect to
|propagation of the Usenet is worth exactly ZERO when you don't want to pay the
|monthly bills required to be involved with it.  You'd do as well to cite the
|will of the majority in demanding a free newsfeed from UUNET (and good luck).
|
The timing of this is perfect!  Should I cite the will of the majority
demanding a multiple party system in Czechslovakia?  The will of those
pouring across the Brandenburg gate in Berlin?  Don't be so quick to
underestimate the power of the "disenfrancised" majority, Brandon!  Who's
that sneaking up behind you with a knife?  :-)  :-)

|++Brandon
|-- 

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