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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Hugo Ballot/Get a Usenetter...
Message-ID: <1996@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 12:43:07 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1996
Posted: Mon Feb 24 12:43:07 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Feb-86 23:52:18 EST
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In article <60200001@ism780> jimb@ism780 writes:
>
>"Get a Usenetter on the 1986 HUGO Ballot!  Nominate ---your name here---
> as best fan writer!"
>
>Stuff and nonsense, folks.  Nominating someone because they're a Usenetter is
>as ridiculous as nominating someone because they're white, Episcopalian, or a
>Chicago Cubs fan.
...
>(Sorry, I've been bothered by this for quite a while, but the recent surge of
>postings coinciding with the imminent release of the HUGO nominating ballot
>pushed me over the edge.)
>
   An Email note to one such poster, requesting (in what I *thought* was a
reasonable manner) that she post an article with some information about the
fan writer Hugo and why a certain acquaintance of hers should be nominated,
went unanswered.  I'm still curious; so how about it Evelyn or Paul (would you
deny the request of a former classmate?).
 
 - Joel Plutchak
   {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster