Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: mercy rule Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 90 03:28:06 GMT References: <2277@litchi.bbn.com> <1990Feb23.183234.23830@sq.sq.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 In article <1990Feb23.183234.23830@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) writes: > 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*. Since there is no central authority here, *convincing* is really about the most that any survey can claim to be. Certainly the results of an official vote have no power over any site. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'