Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!maine.bitnet!tar From: TAR@MAINE.BITNET (Thom Rounds) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: You people can start voting now... Message-ID: Date: 1 Jan 90 01:57:54 GMT References: <50201@bbn.COM> Lines: 40 Okay. Let's get this all out in the open. In article <50201@bbn.COM>, rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro) says: > >In article TAR@MAINE.BITNET (Thom Rounds) : >writes >> I already posted the call for votes for rec.music.pfloyd. Many people >have >>told me that they never saw it and subsequently sent me 'NO' votes because I >>told them it was there and they didn't notice it. This is very immature, but >I >>am forced to accept these votes. For those of you who didn't see it, it WAS >>posted, I don't know why you didn't see it, and I don't care. > > >Pretty silly stuff. Obviously something is amiss with this proposal >and while you may not care, other people do. A 'no' vote seems >appropriate to me if you're going to insist on carrying out the vote >regardless of the fact that many (most?) people never saw any >discussion of this proposal on news.groups. > >All you had to do was repost your call. That's all; no big deal and >only a slight delay. Seems like the simplest kind of net courtesy to >me. I did repost the call. It went the way of the first post. Cancellation. Control message faking. Mostly by a certain Internet personage who thinks it's funny or something. I won't name him, as that seems to be what he wants. Pub- licity. He wants to make a man of himself, or something like that. Why do I say these things? I'll tell you. Number one, he EXPLICITLY threatened to do so. Number two, he admitted to doing so, even going so far as to brag about it. I cross-posted his article to this group. It's there (he hasn't gotten around to removing it yet), under the subject Re: Pink Floyd voting (I think). I put it there just so you all would know that I am not making un-founded accusations. Due to this fact, I have post-poned the call for votes. I will re-post it when I'm sure it will not go away again. --Thom Rounds