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From: jms@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (Joel M Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DECUS election ethics - LDEC
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Date: 30 Apr 91 04:10:50 GMT
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In article <1991Apr28.114603.1@simvax.labmed.umn.edu>, davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu writes...
>> Posting of opinions on this issue to comp.os.vms (a mistake not made by Bob,
>> but others have done so) is inappropriate too.  
> 
>If things had NOT been cross-posted, I, for one, would be completely
>unaware of the situation which has arisen -- not all of us subscribe to
>comp.org.decus.

Your reasoning is fallacious.  The reason that we have multiple news
groups is so that one only has to listen to information one wants to.
There are many, many things you don't know because they haven't been
posted to comp.os.vms, and this is no reason to post them.  If you're
interested in DECUS elections, then you should subscribe to comp.org.decus.
If you're interested in motorsports, then subscribe to rec.bikers (or
whatever it is).  The fact that a broad majority of the readers of one
group overlaps the broad majority of another constituency seems to bring
out this annoying, and perverse, tendency.  Posters who wish to avoid
being known as "bandwidth wasters" should consider the ANNOUNCED readership 
of a newsfroup, (i.e., people who care about vax/vms) rather than the
COINCIDENTAL readership (i.e., people who care about vax/vms are likely
to be members of DECUS, and thus are likely to care about DECUS matters,
even if there is a whole group dedicated to DECUS matters).

In fact, this posting would have been better directed to an imaginary group, 
comp.os.vms.d, which would discuss postings in comp.os.vms (rather than
discussing matters of substance, such as how I reset this darn new mail
count).

jms

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