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From: m1b@rayssd.ssd.ray.com (M. Joseph Barone)
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: DECUS election ethics - LDEC
Message-ID: <12450@rayssd.ssd.ray.com>
Date: 30 Apr 91 12:05:15 GMT
References: <1991Apr26.132534.2303@dcs.simpact.com> <1991Apr28.114603.1@simvax.labmed.umn.edu> <29APR91231050@misvax.mis.arizona.edu>
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In article <29APR91231050@misvax.mis.arizona.edu> jms@misvax.mis.arizona.edu
writes:
> 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.
> ... If you're
> interested in DECUS elections, then you should subscribe to comp.org.decus.
> 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...

	Another "annoying and perverse tendency" is that several people
who intended to cross-post (or should have cross-posted) didn't.  These
people posted the exact same articles in several newsgroups without
cross-posting.  This has the result that subscribers of multiple newsgroups
(like me) read these articles in comp.org.decus and then saw the same
articles in comp.os.vms! To me, this is a greater waste of bandwidth and
disk space.

	On a more pertinent topic, I find it peculiar that those opposed
to the change are so vocal while those for the change haven't posted
anything in this newsgroup to defend their position.  Why is that?

	BTW, I just received my ballot package and have voted.
-- 
Joe Barone --------------------> m1b@rayssd.ssd.ray.com
{gatech, decuac, sun, necntc, ukma, uiucdcs}!rayssd!m1b
I'd perfer not to.