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From: dovich@helios.DAB.GE.COM (Steven J. Dovich)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: comp.women: did I call it or did I call it?
Summary: Well, given the alternatives...
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Date: 21 Jun 88 16:12:01 GMT
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In article <179@pigs.UUCP>, haugj@pigs.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:

> 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.

Just because our only backbone host, codas, goes out of the backbone
business is no invitation to taunt the whole state for being
spineless. Those of us who run the "branch-bones" certainly feel the
state has more cartilage than that...

I do believe that your reference to Gene is a bit mistaken. There is
also no point in pursuing action which will further polarize the
situaton. As one of the public figures involved in the disagreement, I
think Gene was right to defer creation of the group until things
cooled off. By letting someone else take the action, the spectre of
bias was removed, tempering the reaction from the net community.

Of course take this with a pinch of salt, I am not privy to the goings
on of the backbone. I do however think that several prominent net
personalities (and several less prominent ones) got crucified
unnecessarily in this skirmish. That is the price of participation.

I would like to encourage each of us to exhibit some self restraint. I
think we could all use a little time to lick our wounds while we
ponder whether this was worth the price.

> And by the way, ...
> ...  Misquoting your facts is certainly worse than --

Never mind...  :-)


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