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From: nieland_t@kahuna.asd-yf.wpafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
Subject: Re: DECUS election ethics - LDEC
Message-ID: <1991May1.080326.102@kahuna.asd-yf.wpafb.af.mil>
Date: 1 May 91 13:03:26 GMT
References: <1991Apr26.132534.2303@dcs.simpact.com> <1991Apr28.114603.1@simvax.labmed.umn.edu> <29APR91231050@misvax.mis.arizona.edu> <12450@rayssd.ssd.ray.com>
Organization: USAF ASD/YF, WPAFB, Dayton, OH
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In article <12450@rayssd.ssd.ray.com>, m1b@rayssd.ssd.ray.com (M. Joseph Barone) writes:
> 	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.

These people are not posting through NEWS.  They are sending the posting 
through a MAIL gateway as mail messages.  Many of these messages are coming 
from volunteers who normally don't have network access but now have the access 
on the DECUS VAX systems which recently added Internet MAIL access (no NEWS).

> 
> 	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?
> 

I personally believe it is because they have all the material that is going 
out in the ballot packet, where the CON side was denied having material.

> 	BTW, I just received my ballot package and have voted.

Good Job!!
(I have also voted!)


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