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- From: dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall)
- Newsgroups: aus.news,aus.general,soc.culture.australian
- Subject: Re: aus.rail update
- Message-ID: <1734@eram.esi.COM.AU>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 23:46:43 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.014546.13363@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Nov13.082213.28010@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Nov13.082213.28010@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au>,
- eoliver@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Eddie Oliver) writes:
-
- | A number of people have communicated with me also (more than on your list).
- | Needless to say, they have been opponents. Don't you think your sampling
- | process is somewhat biased?
-
- Why the heck should anyone communicate with you?
-
- | Anyway, when will you formally put it to the vote by whatever the
- | approved route is for getting new aus groups set up?
-
- He won't, because there isn't one.
-
- | Does it have to be done by the normal usenet rules (in which case the
- | number of respondents is likely to be far below the minimum needed) or is
- | there some local protocol?
-
- Must be a newbie. Listen, newbie, the time-honoured convention (as formally
- established by Mackin/Roberts back in the dreaded aus.bizarre wars) is that
- a group gets to exist if the newgroup messages outnumber the rmgroups.
-
- --
- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC
- dave@esi.COM.AU ...munnari!esi.COM.AU!dave
- Disclaimer: "Me, speak for us?"
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