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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Call for discussion:  soc.history
Message-ID: <5290@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 15 Jan 90 19:10:30 GMT
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In article <_:11FT2ggpc2@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> Or, in the von Ronspach/da Silva model of net.procedure,
>> you should just consider it silent assent and create it.
>
>   5 Not voting.
>   2 No Group.
> 133 rec.aquaria
>  30 sci.aquaria
>
>Silent assent, eh? Even counting all the votes for sci.aquaria as votes
>against it, it passed.

As I recall, there were over 400 votes for sci.aquaria, and your
little poll wasn't advertised as a newsgroup-creation vote.

				--Blair
				  "Coward."