Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!sloane From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CfD: Interest Groups Surveys Message-ID: <22242.25da835b@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 15 Feb 90 16:24:27 GMT References: <22196.25d2eed0@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <22212.25d6c149@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <77031@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 18 In article <77031@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, martens@ketch.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jeff Martens) writes: >>> In article <22196.25d2eed0@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: > >>>> 1. sci.astrology > > I'd have to vote against the formation of any group with a > self-contradictory such as sci.astrology. I can't imagine anyone with > a quarter brain would consider putting astrology in the sci.* > hierarchy, and since there wouldn't be anything worthwhile in the > newsgroup anyway, I can't imagine feeling guilty about opposing it's > formation. Next thing you know someone'll propose sci.creationism... EXACTLY my point. If we go to some sort of STV voting mechanism, you won't be ABLE to vote against a group like this. The best you will be able to do is vote FOR talk.astrology or some such. -- USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045 E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444