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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: X3J11 response to comments (was: Block Closure)
Message-ID: <932@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 88 00:04:55 GMT
References: <1988May2.212040.3274@utzoo.uucp>, <5309@megaron.arizona.edu> <1988May4.205251.549@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <1988May4.205251.549@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > ... 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...
> 
> With the exception of the poorest students, I just don't think $75 is that
> formidable a barrier if one is really determined to comment.

It wasn't enough to stop me getting _one_ copy of one version of the draft, 
but it was more than enough to stop me getting a copy of all the subsequent
versions.  (I didn't become an observing member, because the late '86 draft
looked good enough for me to trust X3J11 to do a good job without me.)