Xref: utzoo news.groups:4167 news.admin:2391 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!glasgow!jack From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr Jack Campin) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin Subject: Re: Why Vote No Message-ID: <1308@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 31 May 88 18:02:56 GMT References: <11672@mimsy.UUCP> <3127@edm.UUCP> Reply-To: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) Organization: PISA Project, Glesga Yoonie Lines: 20 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Keywords: >The point to having NO votes is mostly as stated above, but since NO votes >tend to be rather rare (cf: comp.protocol.tcp.eniac), it seems fine to >allow them. If NO votes are enough to counteract most of the YESs, then >it would be fair to assume that there is SOMETHING wrong with the newsgroup >proposal (if only lack of interest). There is such a thing as organized bigotry. The only thing wrong with a newsgroup proposal may be that it runs foul of a grouping with ideological reasons for opposing its creation. This would presumably happen to any proposal for rec.guns.abolition.thereof, given the gun lobby's track record, and it's happening to comp.women. There are far more male supremacists on the net than there are feminists, and so the present creation rule works in their favour. -- ARPA: jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk USENET: jack@cs.glasgow.uucp JANET:jack@uk.ac.glasgow.cs useBANGnet: ...mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jack Mail: Jack Campin, Computing Science Dept., Glasgow Univ., 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, SCOTLAND work 041 339 8855 x 6045; home 041 556 1878