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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
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Subject: Re: Let's delete net.general
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 13:22:33 EST
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The fact is that no matter how explicit the instructions, there will
be lots of people who don't follow them.  I've taken polls too, and
even though I told people to include a string I could grep for, I
had to do a lot of hand editing to make my greps work.

It's true that I didn't follow the instructions.  This is because
what I thought I read and what was actually there were different.
I thought he was going to grep the body, didn't see his subject,
and missed the note about "discussion".  Sorry, but I was catching
up on 3 weeks of missed news and wasn't dwelling on every word.
I promise I'll be more careful next time.

Gordon worries that Roy may miscount a vote due to blind use of grep,
probably because Roy says he may miscount.  But Roy obviously did look
at things (however briefly) by hand, since he noticed the mistakes.
So he's clearly running the poll responsibly.  Nonetheless, I think
it's fair of Roy to warn people that they are messing up, in order to
cut down on the number of mistyped responses he has to edit by hand.
(That's a fair amount of work - I did it recently with the MAC poll.)

	Mark