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From: mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: X3J11 response to comments (was: Block Closure)
Message-ID: <5309@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 3 May 88 16:53:12 GMT
References: <1988May2.212040.3274@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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From article <1988May2.212040.3274@utzoo.uucp>, by henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
> If they can't find $50 in their own pockets, or their own plus their friends'
> pockets, or their organization's pockets, I really have to conclude that
> they aren't that desperately concerned.

I'm almost afraid to say this --- after several years of reading the
the net I can count on one hand the number of times Henry has been
wrong (and still have fingers left over) --- but I find this point of
view a little bizarre.  It seems to me that a poll tax ensures that
most of the responses will come from people who are paid by their
employers to write a response.  Is this a good criterion?  I am
grateful that a few very dedicated people, Henry among them, shelled
out $75 to inject some common sense into the debate.  But why have a
policy that discourages just such people?



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