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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Voting for new newsgroups
Keywords: vote new group
Message-ID: <1990Jan6.110751.6559@twwells.com>
Date: 6 Jan 90 11:07:51 GMT
References: <6355@sun.acs.udel.edu> <129878@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Jan5.112408.27299@twwells.com> <129926@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <129926@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> briang@sun.UUCP (Brian Gordon) writes:
: >Anyone who is able to is allowed to vote. However, there is one
: >     [...]
: >To summarize: anyone who can send e-mail *may* vote; only those
: >who have reasons related to the group (or the net, as it applies
: >to the group) one way or the other *should* vote.
:
: Not that different a sentiment, really.  Those who do NOT subscribe to
: news.groups probably are unaware of the history, protocols, rules/guidelines,
: etc.  of typical news group formation and hence, perhaps, "less qualified" to
: vote yea or nay.  If you are interested in a topic but naive in the ways of
: usenet, you are probably as easy to manipulate as a typical <insert big city
: name> <insert traditional controlling party> voter ;-}

Well, one could, for example, subscribe to
news.announce.newgroups and leave news.groups to the vermin.
Considering the typical activities on news.groups, that may be a
good idea. I'm seriously considering it myself.

However, Mr. Gordon does have a good point: to vote, one should be
aware of what is going on; reading news.groups will certainly
enlighten you. While disgusting you.

Oh well, no one has ever suggested that politics is clean. :-)

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