Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!milano!zephyr!werner From: werner@zephyr.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Lets do something constructive re: *.aquaria groups Message-ID: <3479@zephyr.sw.mcc.com> Date: 21 Feb 90 03:51:35 GMT References: <##701$@rpi.edu> <10804@saturn.ADS.COM> <1990Feb12.091942.9791@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Feb13.044748.15122@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <1990Feb20.003710.26194@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <99000@looking.on.ca> Reply-To: werner@zephyr.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) Organization: MCC, Austin, Texas Lines: 43 In article <99000@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >Sorry, no. Please do not discuss the fish groups in news.groups. That >topic has had its day here. It doesn't get another chance. If you are >so upset about the result then you should have worked to convince the >people invovled that they were doing harm to their own cause. Discussing >the matter here will not do any more good, because I think I speak for all >when I say we will not tolerate another fish vote and discussion cycle in >this group. >The result was not good, but there is no mechanism in existing USENET >to fix it. You have to live with it. >Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473 a true cleric, if I ever saw one - and of course, famous for being Mr. Funny ... :-) Anyway, he doesn't speak for me and is otherwise wrong in many points. There certainly is every reason for those people that like to discuss fishies to have their forum - and to correct whatever mess some dogmatics have blessed us with when they forced through that sci.aquaria vote. I don't understand why Brad would want to live with that mess and I don't understand why he won't let well-intentioned people fix it. Shooting himself into the other foot over it doesn't make things "even out" ... It seems that Chuq's proposal is a good (and very sly) one ... someone will probably call "foul" and someone else will probably call for a vote to decide if the net is in favor to have a vote on the future of "the fish-story" along the lines that Chuq suggests .... well, so be it. As the matter might go, let's be fair to fish-lovers (and get them the hell out of here the fastest way possible before the matter starts "smelling" again) Cheers, ---Werner -- --------------------------> please send REPLIES to <------------------------ INTERNET: werner@cs.utexas.edu or: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet # 128.83.144.1) UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!werner