Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bionet!ames!haven!mimsy!mojo!cyliao From: cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Results of comp.sys.apple2.tech vote Message-ID: <1990Jan20.185907.18503@eng.umd.edu> Date: 20 Jan 90 18:59:07 GMT References: <9001171452.AA12562@apple.com> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: Merriversity of Uniland, College Purgatory Lines: 33 In article <9001171452.AA12562@apple.com> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes: >On Mon, 15 Jan 90 17:28:54 GMT Cary Farrier said: >>The results of the voting on the comp.sys.apple2.tech newsgroup are in: >> >> YES: 90 >> NO: 30 > >Gee, only 120 votes total? Considering the verbosity of this group, either >we are (a little more than) 120 REAL chatterboxes, or (more likely I think) >there's a powerful lot of apathy out there. I wonder how many folks failed >to vote properly (sent a comment to comp.sys.apple instead of email to >Farrier@Apple.COM)? > >I'd guess that changing the name from comp.sys.apple to comp.sys.apple2 >would be a LOT less controversial (anyone planning to vote 'no'??), but >taking a vote will not be worth the trouble (might even lead the powers that >be to question the cost-benefit of comp.sys.apple) if we can only muster >120 voters :-( > >/s Murph [Internet] > or ...{psuvax1 or mcvax}!uconnvm.bitnet!sewall [UUCP] > + Standard disclaimer applies ("The opinions expressed are my own" etc.) Yeah, only 120 votes, it surprised me too. But I guess that since the vote performed during the winterbreak, perhaps lots people didn't read the news- group these days. Maybe we should consider to vote again after schools begin. my school begins on Jan 22nd, 90. -- |I want Rocket Chip 10 MHz, Z-Ram Ultra II, UniDisk 3.5 | cyliao@wam.umd.edu | |I want my own NeXT, 64 Mb RAM, 660 Mb SCSI, NeXT laser | Chun Yao Liao | | printer, net connection, software, color.| Accepting Donations!| /* If (my_.signature =~ yours) coincidence = true; else ignore_this = true; */