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From: tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood WA3VQJ)
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Subject: Re: Per the vote...
Message-ID: <21353@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 90 18:54:39 GMT
References: <10750@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Reply-To: tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Terry J. Wood)
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In article <10750@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> rissa@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Patricia O Tuama) writes:
>In article <37477@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>Either. Both. Does it matter? If it looks like a vote and quacks like a vote
>>and smells like a vote...

>But it started out as an opinion poll on the appropriate name for a
>existing newsgroup and then magically turned into a vote for the 
>creation of another newsgroup.

If the question that you're asking, Patricia, is "Is this "vote" a
special case that, if applied to any other situation, will get you
flamed to a crisp?" then the answer is YES.  Don't expect to ever be
able to conduct a no-discussion 'poll' in the future and, at the last
minute, call it a vote.  Oh, yes, we all know about the "discussion",
but as I've seen before, a discussion isn't a discussion, unless it's
"formal".  But hey, who really cares?  I think it's a scream that
Richard got these guys to create him Yet Another News Group (YANG).

I shudder to think what Richard could do in a National Election, with
the way he got his opponents, here, to work for him.  Perhaps, we should
all be glad that Richard spends his time here.

>>Remember, they're only guidelines. That's the mantra of USENET.

>And remember, according to Peter da Silva, the guidelines may be ig-
>nored at any time as long as you do so in accordance with Peter's
>notion of "common sense." 

Don't expect consistancy when dealing with a YANG!  If you want to apply
this new unwritten "rule" of USENET, you have to get Richard to set the
stage first! ;-)

Terry
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