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From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A Thought Experiment about News.Groups
Message-ID: <3315@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 31 May 89 17:18:34 GMT
References: <371@odi.ODI.COM> <3400@looking.on.ca> <372@odi.ODI.COM>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
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In article <372@odi.ODI.COM> benson@odi.com (Benson Margulies) writes:
>NO votes serve, in my obviously insufficiently humble opinion, only to
>legitimize the kind of whining that demands that talk.politics.guns be
>abolished so that talk.politics readers are FORCED to read gun
>transactions, or that bemoans the moderation of some groups.

  One man's "whining" is another's critical point. Fortunately for us all,
Mr. Margulies does not know everything there is to know about USENET, nor is
he single-handedly qualified to determine what a proper name for a new group
is (although he sure seems to think he is).
  Without NO votes, how do you propose to decide whether a group is "properly"
named? And are you really so naive as to think that getting rid of NO votes
will stop the whining? We had whining long before we had votes.

--Greg