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: Various topics Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 90 03:43:17 GMT References: <_DW17VCxds8@ficc.uu.net> <59198@ccicpg.UUCP> <::X1644xds8@ficc.uu.net> <59391@ccicpg.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 47 > Yeup that's it: a conspiracy to defraud hundreds if not > thousands of siteadmins out of inodes. Actually, a conspiracy to defraud the folks paying to ship usenet over the Atlantic out of long distance phone services. > The two aquaria groups are up and running, even though rec.aquaria > was created outside the usenet guidelines, and seem to be doing > just fine thank you. There was a call for discussion (by Richard Sexton), a call for votes (by me) with an appropriate charter. I merely gave popel the choice of what group to vote for. > Perhaps someone can explain just what the problem is, I mean > besides "Richard Sexton did it so we don't like it." I've supported other things Richard Sexton has proposed, so that's pure balderdash. The problem is that the vote he ran did not establish the consensus on what the name and charter of the group should be. It was technically a win, but the sheer volume of votes really left it too close to call. > Richard wanted .aquaria in sci and Peter wanted it in rec. Richard started out wanting it in rec. The original rec.aquaria failed. Then he decided to run a new vote some time later... but because he believed that the Europeans wouldn't get the group in rec (a false assumption, as it turned out) he decided to call for a vote in sci. He told me this himself in just about as many words. > You don't think .aquaria belongs in the sci hierarchy, > therefore Richard's vote is 'tainted' and Peter's > POLL is legitimate? Actually, I was expecting a flood of votes from Richard Sexton and friends putting my VOTE(*) firmly on the sci side as well. --- (*) As Brad Templeton frequently points out, the words "poll", "vote", and "survey" as used on Usenet are effectively equivalent. Are you really slamming me because I didn't utter the magic incantations right? Amazing. I'd expected to be slammed for using STV rather than a yes/no poll. Followups requested to be directed to /dev/null. There is no magic idiocy in the header... I have this quixotic belief that if you treat people like adults they'll behave like adults. I don't expect to convince anyone of anything with this message, but I don't care to have revisionist history stand uncallenged. -- _--_|\ 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?" `-_-'