Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: news.software.cnews, anyone? Message-ID: Date: 31 Dec 90 22:53:29 GMT References: <1990Dec29.142103.3886@blilly.UUCP> <1990Dec31.082711.6700@xenitec.on.ca> <3087@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 29 davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes: > Since this is a different name, and that was a good part of the >objection, I think you can call it a new group and discuss now. That's >certainly within the spirit of the guidelines (my opinion), you're not >bringing the same thing up again, there's a major change. > I would really like to see this happen so the people running B news, >possibly a majority of the net, could have their group back. Were you to let the issue sit for the requisite six months, you wouldn't have to wait a very long time. The call for votes was issued by Kyle Jones on June 27, 1990 (posted June 29); the results were submitted on July 23 (posted July 28). The vote failed 118 yes - 90 no. Before that, there was a vote in January taken by J.T. Conklin (jtc@winsey.bc.ca) that failed for news.software.misc. Before that I seem to recall an attempt by Bill Wisner to get news.software.c created (though I don't have records for that period of time). The community seems to have spoken again and again on this issue. If you are going to do this again, please make certain that at the very least you have the support of Henry and Geoff. For better or worse, their opinion seemed to have carried a lot of weight. Perhaps what we should have (after figuring out how to rename groups without pissing off the world) is news.software.transport and news.software.readers. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]