🚀 go-pugleaf

Cary writes:
>Dave hisses:

That's a good way to get everyone on your side and increase
their respect for your opinion.

>Now, if *everyone's* response were as balanced as Charlotte's, or even
>Chester's, I'd probably let this lie, but there's a notably humorless
>quality to most of the posts on this issue so far. Dave seems to be
>talking about the Republican VP nomination, while Aahz shakes his
>cyber-bureaucrat thing.

Sorry if we actually understand Usenet here and want it
to work well.

>Which is precisely why a new group like this ain't such a bad idea. I
>agree that there's some risk of duplication and/or ambiguity. (First-year
>undergrads take note: this is what we call the question of
>genre. Oooooh.) Still, as an experiment I think it's worth a try. 

You don't understand:  It's not an experiment.  There is no
group-removal process; starting a new group is the same as
carving something in stone without drawing it in pencil first.
Every group ever officially created in Usenet is still there,
taking up space on hundreds of thousands of machines across
the globe.  Obviously, not as many people will pick up a ba.*
group, but you'll notice that we have posters from outside
the Bay Area, so we're still talking a substantial number of
machines.  That's why this matters.

>And the tired, territorial responses of some of the bad old boys show
>adequately enough the need for novelty in these here parts.

How did this suddenly get gender-linked?  As I've said before,
I don't care much either way, but the fact that X, Y, or Z
doesn't see the point of a booze group is hardly proof of
cliqueishness.  Moreover, accusations of cliqueishness are
generally a guaranteed way to kill a new group proposal in
a voting environment.  In any environment, it's the rhetorical
equivalent of forgetting to throw the grenade in your hand.

I'm xposting this back to ba.food in the hopes that the two
regulars who were complaining to me about hootchie-threads
will come out of the woodwork, finally.



Rage away,

meg


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meg@steam.stanford.edu                  Comparatively Literate