Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Discussion Periods Message-ID: Date: 2 Jan 90 22:17:45 GMT References: <10801@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 9 In Decembers's _Washington Monthly_, there is an article about Senator Sam Nunn. In it the author quotes one of Nunn's aides estimating that some 30% of the Democratic membership votes strictly based on Nunn's opinion, when it comes to defense issues, because they know that his opinions in those areas are well grounded in fact. It is quite possible that many people on USENET also work that way. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]