🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <EMCGUIRE.92Nov23151409@fuller.intellection.com> emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes:
>>In article <1ejd2mINN2uv@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> randall-joshua@yale.edu (Joshua Randall) writes:
>>
>>   To aid us in our decision, could you inform those who do not read the "sources"
>>   group what the charter of that group says about appropriate posts?
>
>If you don't read it, why are you concerned about its content?

While you have a valid point (namely that those who don't read a group probably
shouldn't vote on things concerining that group), the fact of the matter is
that now that the CFV has been posted here, I, and anyone else who takes the
time to read this group -- or just news.announce.newsgroups -- can vote on this
issue.

Actually, I think this is an important issue for everyone.  It falls somewhere
under the "commercial uses of the 'Net" rubric.

>It's not a new group proposal, nor was it labeled a Call For Votes.
>It's a referendum by the moderator of an existing group on a question
>internal to the group.

Well yes, but it has much wider implications.  Let's say that a simple majority
of votes feel that Shareware should *not* be posted.  This could set a prece-
dent for future "commercial uses of the 'Net" debates.

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Joshua E. Randall                       randall-joshua@yale.edu