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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: How to decide -- sci or talk.
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Date: 6 Feb 90 03:41:11 GMT
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You people are fooling yourselves.  Unless I miss my guess (an educated
guess drawn from a decade of netting) you don't get to decide whether
it's sci or talk.

You can vote for a sci group and you can issue a create message for a
sci group, but there are clearly enough admins out there who would be
sufficiently annoyed by this to alias the group to a talk group or refuse
to forward the sci group.

You could proudly proclaim your important sounding name, but it would by
a phyrric victory, indeed.  Ask the aquarium people.  (Of course, I gave
the same warning to Richard Sexton and he ignored it, too.)

I could be wrong, but I suspect you're wasting your own time, and everybody
else's too, in debating how to "decide" sci or talk.  This is not a democracy,
and I wish people would stop pretending that it is.  Objectivists, if anyone,
should understand that.  You don't get to vote about how other people's
property will be used.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473