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From: wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.[ho95c])
Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic,soc.culture.misc,news.misc,news.groups
Subject: Re: Let's have other more votes..
Summary: voting on talk.politics.ireland
Message-ID: <330@skep2.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 88 04:18:20 GMT
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In article <8133@megaron.arizona.edu> gln@arizona.edu (Gary L. Newell) writes:
:Speaking of being courteous, why don't some of you folks who dislike the
:political discussions show a little?
	As I pointed out, and you quoted later on, I'd stopped reading
	s.c.c., so I've *been* polite - I replied when the argument
	overflowed into news.misc.

:Please Please Please!!! Tell me what makes it so damn hard??!!?? Perhaps the
:articles on bagpipes and linguistics are few, because it represents the level
:of overall interest as opposed to politics. 

They've been drowned out, Gary, or at least had for a while when I
stopped reading it; a couple of political zealots can drown out
anything else, and people who care about Irish politics tend to be
zealots whichever side they're on - there's been a lot of wrong done by
both sides, and reconciliation is a tough thing when both sides would
rather fight.  But there are other good discussions that go on; it's
simply hard to find them.  Looks like there's about 1/3 non-political
content today.

As another poster pointed out in reply to my article, Jamie's vote was
asking for an end to the political discussion rather than a new
newsgroup to move it to, which I hadn't realized.  This is 
soc.CULTURE.celtic, after all - shall we create a
	talk.politics.ireland?
There's clearly enough volume to justify it.
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