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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
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Subject: Re: Comp.lang.cobol failed
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Date: 5 Jan 90 16:11:37 GMT
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In article <604@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>The vote for comp.lang.cobol is over. It will not be created for
>two reasons:
>- Too little interest, only 95 persons voted in favour, so even with
>  no NO votes, I wouldn't have got the required 100 vote majority.
>- Too strong opposition, 54 votes were against, which means that
>  also the other criterion, at least 2/3 of the votes in favour,
>  wasn't met.

>There was a suggestion to form alt.cobol. Some of the YES voters
>seemed to be quite anxious in having a Cobol group, so there might
>be an idea to pursue that idea. I will not create it, though.

Unless I get overwhelming objections, I will create the group next
Wednesday, 10 January 1990. I feel there is clearly enough interest in
discussing COBOL to warrant an alt group. In addition, perhaps the group
will have enough traffic to show that comp.lang.cobol is needed.

Objections of the form "COBOL sucks, don't encourage it with a
newsgroup" will be summarily ignored. I happen to feel the same way
about C at times.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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