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From: yba@arrow.bellcore.com (Mark Levine)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTES:  DID HE DO US A SERVICE OR NOT?
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Date: 16 Nov 88 22:51:34 GMT
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[on lining up behind every word]

It seems that news.admin is not a group where votes need to be taken on
anything.

I did send e-mail to the fellow who felt it was a good idea to call for
yet another poll pretty close to election day and asked him, politely,
to go away, largely because it was not a black- and-white question.  I
meant no disrespect, but really, this poll is not an issue that needs
to be brought to the attention of admins (perhaps the virus is, but
your opinions of it is not) nor is it a new news group that needs a
net.vote.  If you won't take it away, at least please take it somewhere
appropriate.  [And please don't call for a vote on where is appropriate
in news.admin -- it is getting hard enough to get the wheat from the
chaff in here; if admins start unsubscribing because of the signal to
noise ratio, you have defeated the purpose of the group).

Eleazor bar Shimon, once and future Carolingian
yba@sabre.bellcore.com