Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Cancellation and Suspicion Message-ID: <:C21J84ggpc2@ficc.uu.net> Date: 15 Jan 90 00:13:35 GMT References: <10979@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <5275@buengc.BU.EDU> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 25 In article <5275@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes: > Dickie came out at the very beginning and stated the reasoning > for the name of the group, This is revisionist history. First of all, he loudly and frequently denied that distribution had anything to do with the name choice until the vote itself. And then he mentioned it in passing as something that had been brought to his attention. Prior to the vote itself, He called me on the phone and we talked for about an hour. About the first thing he said to me was "The only reason I'm putting the group in sci is to get it into Europe". I told him I would drop my objections to the name sci.aquaria if he would come clean on that, and moderate it. He did neither, but I kept my part of the bargain nevertheless... I voted NO, but did not respond to any of his messages and stayed out of the discussion until it became clear that he wasn't going to keep his. > and was badgered and hooted by a load > of net.fascist.morons for having the gumption to do something > about net.prejudice against rec groups. And he did not do anything about net.prejudice against rec groups, unless you count demonstrating such prejudice himself as "doing something about it". The way to do something about such prejudice would be to create more high quality rec groups and demonstrate that such prejudice was unfounded. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'