Xref: utzoo news.groups:16505 talk.religion.newage:5422 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!splut!jay From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: news.groups,talk.religion.newage Subject: Re: Updated Call for Votes: talk.religion.pagan Message-ID: Date: 17 Jan 90 12:40:40 GMT References: <23146@ut-emx.UUCP> <9692@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 39 In article <9692@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes: >In article <23146@ut-emx.UUCP> walt.cc.utexas.edu!olorin@cs.utexas.edu >(Dave Weinstein) writes: >>Due to the upgrade of the Operating System of the network from which >>the vote was being conducted, votes sent between (approximately) January >>2nd and Janary 10th (the deadline) could not get through. Therefore, >>in all fairness to those who attempted to vote during that period, the >>vote has been extended for a comparable amount of time to January 20th, >>1990. ...at this point, Tim goes ballistic: >When days went by after the end of the voting period for >talk.religion.pagan and nothing was heard from the vote collector, I >became suspicious, particularly since a friend of the collector >continued to solicit votes after the end of the voting period. Now we >have a unilateral declaration of an extension of the voting period, >obviously because the collector hopes to get more yes votes. Your conclusion is hardly obvious. The reason presented is reasonable, and there is precedent. OS upgrades happen to the best of us. It's not at all unreasonable for the vote process to accommodate such unforeseen and uncontrolled events. Your vendetta against the group is showing. One person's vehement disagreement doesn't constitute a lack of consensus. Unlike sci.aquaria, this is not an attempt to defraud the admins of the net; therefore, if the vote passes, I suspect that it will be honored. As for me, I hadn't intended to vote in this issue. Your tirade, however, has convinced me that a YES vote is appropriate. I intend to do so as soon as I can find the address to mail the vote to. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. {attctc,bellcore}!texbell!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- "There is no doubt I should be tarred and feathered." - Richard Sexton