Newsgroups: news.groups Path: utzoo!sq!msb From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) Subject: Re: mercy rule Message-ID: <1990Feb23.183234.23830@sq.sq.com> Summary: Yes Reply-To: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto References: <2277@litchi.bbn.com> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 18:32:34 GMT Rich Salz (rsalz@bbn.com) writes: > Things work well enough now that I do not see a need to get an "obvious" > group created six days earlier. ... From where I sit, this assertion about "working well" seems obviously wrong. I suggest that the person who proposed the "mercy rule" should conduct a survey on it. I say "survey" because, in the absence of a formal amending procedure for the voting guidelines, the results have to be non-binding. But they might, and I think will, be *convincing*. -- Mark Brader "I conducted a Usenet poll ... on this subject ... Toronto Laura is single. By a 2-1 margin." -- Ken Perlow utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com This article is in the public domain.