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From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker)
Newsgroups: news.groups,unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTES: comp.sys.[att].[3b1|unixpc|safari]
Keywords: vote, unixpc, 3b1, 7300, safari, miniframe, s4, att, vote
Message-ID: <58824@becker.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 90 23:17:26 GMT
References: <1990Dec7.131017.5447@bagend.uucp>
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1990Dec7.131017.5447@bagend.uucp> jan@bagend.uucp (Jan Isley) writes:
|This article is a CALL FOR VOTES to create a newsgroup within the
|comp.sys hierarchy for the Convergent Technologies, Inc. systems
|marketed as the AT&T UnixPC/7300/3B1, the Convergent Safari, the
|Motorola Miniframe, and perhaps others...
|
|During the discussion period, a consensus was reached to vote for
|the creation of a group for these systems, and a sources group.
|If successful, these groups would replace the unix-pc hierarchy.

	This is a misstatement, at least according to
	the understanding I have of the meaning of the
	term "consensus".

	A small but significant minority (myself among
	them, natch) objected strongly to this move.

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