Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!cxsea!blm From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: comp.women: did I call it or did I call it? Message-ID: <2423@cxsea.UUCP> Date: 23 Jun 88 19:26:17 GMT References: <56436@sun.uucp> <128600008@inmet> <11096@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <2571@kitty.UUCP> <179@pigs.UUCP> Reply-To: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews) Organization: Computer X Inc. Lines: 16 The Beach Bum (haugj@pigs.UUCP) writes: |In article <2571@kitty.UUCP>, larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: |> In my opinion, the unilateral, unwarranted and unwanted newgroup |> creation by "some fella down in Texas" is almost as atrocious in nature |> as the JJ@portal business. |The group was properly voted on and passed. It was the lack of action |on the part of a certain spineless creature in Florida which resulted in |Karl's creation of the group. A group called comp.women was voted upon. Unless I missed a LOT of news, a group called comp.society.women was never voted upon. Some people expressed their preference for this name over comp.women, but it was never voted upon. -- Brian L. Matthews blm@cxsea.UUCP ...{mnetor,uw-beaver!ssc-vax}!cxsea!blm +1 206 251 6811 Computer X Inc. - a division of Motorola New Enterprises