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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.
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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.

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