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From: shane@pepe.cc.umich.edu (Shane Looker)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Newsgroup vote counting: a proposed modifacation
Message-ID: <375@tardis.cc.umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 12:06:07 EST
Article-I.D.: tardis.375
Posted: Wed Nov  4 12:06:07 1987
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In article <1578@haddock.ISC.COM> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>In article <6695@ut-ngp.UUCP> kraut@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>>let's just stay reasonable about this matter  - and improvise best
>>as we can ... and stay friendly even towards those folks that can't
>>get reply-mail through and end up posting !!!
>
>It should be emphasized that posted votes NEVER count.  Even if you tried a
>direct reply first, and it failed, that isn't sufficient justification.

I don't think it is right to keep me from voting for a group I want just 
because there is a brain-dead mailer between my machine and your machine.
I'm not a net guru, so I have no idea how to guess the magic path which
will get my vote to the person who wants it, unless the path for the
reply happens to work from where I am.


Shane Looker                       |  "He's dead Jim,
shane@pepe.cc.umich.edu            |     you grab his tricorder,
uunet!umix!pepe.cc.umich.edu!shane |     I'll get his wallet."
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