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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr Jack Campin)
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Subject: Re: Why Vote No
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Date: 31 May 88 18:02:56 GMT
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>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.

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