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From: edguer@charlie.CES.CWRU.Edu (Aydin Edguer)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Where have No votes gotten us?
Summary: Exactly where they should have
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Date: 1 Jun 89 23:23:25 GMT
References: <371@odi.ODI.COM> <3400@looking.on.ca> <372@odi.ODI.COM> <3315@ncar.ucar.edu> <3411@looking.on.ca>
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In article <3411@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
 > Some people have thought of abolishing No votes.  A good question
 > to ask is, "what have No votes done?"
Well, why not look in news.groups at article <11722@s.ms.uky.edu>.

In article <11722@s.ms.uky.edu> tindle@ms.uky.edu (Ken Tindle) writes:
 > The voting period for soc.personals is over.  The count is 167 YES, 103 NO.
It would appear to me to have worked in this case.  The people who wanted
soc.personals are now free to:
	a) set up a mailing list and publish its existence:
		1) in an article in news.groups. 
		   crossposted to relevant groups, which might
		   include soc.singles, alt.sex, and others.
		2) in the monthly list of mailing-lists.
		3) in newspapers and magazines around the world.
	b) set up an alt.personals group.
	c) set up a soc.personals group on their local machine and
	   try to connect directly to others who would like to distribute
	   the list.  They already have a list of 167 people whom they
	   can contact.
	d) set up a soc.personals groups on their local machine that
	   is a gateway to a distributed mailing list of other machines
	   who have local soc.personals groups.

Why are people so intent on removing the "rights" of other users to object.
No one is trying to prevent others from exchanging information.  I have listed
four ways in which any two sites can start up their own "newsgroups" without
resorting to peer review via a fair democratic process.  The rules for the
creation of a newsgroup are in my opinion very good.  Please show how they
are unfair, especially given all the other options available to a person.

Aydin Edguer		+1 216 368 6123		edguer@alpha.ces.cwru.edu
Department of Computer Engineering, Crawford Hall, Case Western Reserve Univ.