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From: wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: late votes for *.AQUARIA
Message-ID: <12488@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 89 18:44:03 GMT
References: <7332@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker,00440,cb,1D211,6148604019)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <7332@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <63050@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>> In article <7327@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.lonestar.org (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> >I have sent the results of the vote to Spaf.
>
>> Why?  What is Gene going to do with them?
>
>inews -C rec.aquaria

Shouldn't that be done by our newgroup czar ?

>Re-read my results message. Does it say "rename sci.aquaria to rec.aquaria"?
>No, it says "create rec.aquaria".
>
>If he doesn't, I will. My poll was certainly no further from the letter of the
>guidleines than Richard's, and far closer to the spirit. 

I dunno.  Richard at least didn't use an unapproved voting technique, nor
call for one vote immediately after another had finished.

>It has established, as
>Richard's didn't, a group name that is widely accepted and appropriate.

How can you claim that ?  You got only 135 names of people who liked
rec.aquaria, which Richard produced 400 (if memory serves) who liked
sci.aquaria.  Sounds like his name is much more widely accepted.
The fact that you got only 5 votes for sci.aquaria only indicates that
the "scilent" majority (ahem), having already got what they want, ignored
your vote, while the rec crowd felt they still had an axe to grind.

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