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- From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
- Subject: Re: *BAD* music group reorg will not be honored
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 00:58:29 GMT
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- References: <EMCGUIRE.92Nov15180944@fuller.intellection.com> <1992Nov16.230804.22433@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Nov16.230804.22433@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
- >emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes:
- >we must assume a dispute of some sort. I don't think "lessening the
- >number of disputes" is a valid reason for ignoring valid complaints.
-
- It isn't. But there has not yet been a valid complaint about this vote.
- And creating the precedent that a valid vote can be overturned if you
- whine and bitch and moan and harp about it will only make more people
- try it when they don't get the results they want from a vote.
-
- >>The newsgroup administration process should be simple, fast, and
- >>cheap.
- >
- >Was this rename so?
-
- It would have been, had you not decided to whine and bitch and moan and
- harp about a series of imaginary problems.
-
- >Again, a yardstick for good policy is whether the right thing occurs
- >>I think a straw poll would put this in better perspective. I will
- >>conduct one.
- >
- >Great!
-
- A straw poll will be meaningless, because it will suffer from exactly
- the same self-selection mechanism that the original vote did. Those who
- care will reply to the straw poll, those who don't, won't.
-