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From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,news.groups
Subject: Re: VOTE: re-create comp.unix.wizards
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Date: 9 Oct 90 22:24:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org's message of 4 Oct 90 13:42:29 GMT

In article <18571@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
< 
< Hi.  Chip Salzenberg says I should run a vote if I want
< to see comp.unix.wizards return.  I happen to think the
< answer is obvious.
< 
< So, this is the vote.  If you would like to see the
< return of comp.unix.wizards, with no other changes to
< any of the new groups, send your YES vote to my address.
< In a month or so, I'll tally the votes and send the
< results off to the net.gods for their action.  I'm not
< suggesting any of the other groups get removed, just
< that c.u.wizards get reinstated.
< 
< Don't bother telling me about the guidelines, that's
< what got c.u.wizards screwed up in the first place.
< Of course, the normal rules apply - no posted votes,
< no proxies, no stuffing the ballot box.
< 
< Spread the word around to anyone you think has an
< interest in the return of net.wizards.  I'll post a
< reminder towards the end, which will be either 11/3,
< or when interest tapers off, which normally happens
< in two or three weeks.


(i waited for someone else to respond to this, but no one has, so i
figured i should say something...)


all i can say is that john has probably made the chances of getting
comp.unix.wizards back next to impossible.  go ahead john, ignore the
guidelines, send out newgroup commands and hold votes without telling
SA's about it and all you will do is train the SA's to ignore anything
that has to do with comp.unix.wizards.  if and when there is a
legitimate vote to bring back comp.unix.wizards, john has made it so
that many SA's will just ignore it and continue to alias the group.
it doesnt take many before things are really messed up.


oh yeah, i have been reading and posting to comp.unix.wizards since
before the great renaming, i voted against the renaming to c.u.i, but
i still think the things john is doing sucks.


-wayne