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- From: bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers)
- Subject: Re: OH NO, NOT AGAIN! (was Re: SPLIT #$%&%$ THIS GROUP NOW!!!!!!!)
- In-Reply-To: pgr@comlab.ox.ac.uk's message of 10 Dec 92 02:04:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <BCR.92Dec12202802@hfl3sn02.cern.ch>
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- Organization: CERN, European Research Center for High Energy Physics
- References: <1992Dec8.123448.21398@ifi.uio.no> <pgr.020013.10Dec1992@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:28:02 GMT
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- In article <pgr.020013.10Dec1992@comlab.ox.ac.uk> pgr@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Partially Grown Rhododendron) writes:
- > I expect we will now have a split request at least once a week...
- > (For those who haven't read the group creation guidelines, another vote
- > is usually recommended not to occur until 6 months after the previous one
- > -- only 5.75 months to go now... so please don't post any more requests
- > for splitting until sometime around June next year.)
-
- If that is only a recommendation, and not a rule it would be a very good
- idea to ignore it in this case. Just because the last proposal was not
- good enough to please a 2/3 majority does not mean everyone should suffer
- for another six months!
-
- Bill
-
- --
- "Yeti! Saw them in the London Underground twenty years ago. Ghosts!
- A headless woman used to walk through my bedroom at midnight. Mermaids?
- Grandpa was rescued from the Marie Celeste by one. Vampires? I always
- wondered where my dad went to at night. Telepathy? Right now you're
- thinking that I'm talking crap. So what can you tell me that I won't
- believe in?" - Andrew Hunt, "CAT'S CRADLE: WITCH MARK"
-
- --
- "Yeti! Saw them in the London Underground twenty years ago. Ghosts!
- A headless woman used to walk through my bedroom at midnight. Mermaids?
- Grandpa was rescued from the Marie Celeste by one. Vampires? I always
- wondered where my dad went to at night. Telepathy? Right now you're
- thinking that I'm talking crap. So what can you tell me that I won't
- believe in?" - Andrew Hunt, "CAT'S CRADLE: WITCH MARK"
-