Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!tjw From: tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood WA3VQJ) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Aquaria Message-ID: <22615@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 28 Feb 90 21:18:28 GMT References: <59874@ccicpg.UUCP> <22573@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <60091@ccicpg.UUCP> Reply-To: tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Terry J. Wood) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services Lines: 36 In article <60091@ccicpg.UUCP> dave@ccicpg.UUCP ( Dave Hill) writes: >In article <22573@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood WA3VQJ) writes: >> >> So, go ahead and conduct a "vote" if you like. I know that this site >> isn't going to honor it regardless of what the outcome is. >I haven't been calling for a vote. I haven't even suggested >talking about thinking about maybe discussing calling a vote. Sorry, Dave, I guess my E-mail doesn't travel as fast as my news. The YOU in the above is the plural "you", not the singluar you (Dave Hill). The point to my article is this: All these "votes" and "revotes" are getting out of hand. Will we next "revote" comp.lang.whatever if the next net.pseudo.celeb calls for it? Will we "revote" news.groups? It's better to drop this whole thing than stir the pot again. Enough is enough. There's been more traffic, byte for byte about the "vote" than there is in the fish newsgroups themselves. It will end when the admins say (as the Guiness people do when they feel things are getting out of hand), "go ahead, but we're not going to publish it". This keeps people from trying to collect post cards, kill themselves with alcohol consumption records or rmgroup/newgroup every six weeks. These groups exist and they're being used. We'll keep taking and passing on traffic in them. Even if they're "voted" out of existance we'll not honor the rmgroup. For better or worse, this ends my participation in this. Your mileage will, of course, vary. Terry -- INTERNET: tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu BITNET: TJW@PITTVMS CC-NET: 33802::tjw UUCP: {decwrl!decvax!idis, allegra, bellcore}!pitt!unix.cis.pitt.edu!tjw And if dreams could come true, I'd still be there with you, On the banks of cold waters at the close of the day. - Craig Johnson