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In article <1992Apr11.020819.157@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
coco@ihcoco.att.com (Felix A.  Lugo) writes:

>In article <1992Apr10.160856.2790@cs.yale.edu>
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu writes:

>	What I do know, however, is that a bigoted FEW want to
>	DICTATE what other people may or may not do in this newsgroup;
>	-- AND I'M SICK OF IT!  (I should have used RTF for this line).

Nobody can (actually) dictate anything, anywhere, in any
unmoderated newsgroup, so you should maybe cool your jets,
rather than complain about a condition that can't exist
other than in your subjective interpretation.

It's my impression that those who don't want RTF in csnm are
more that a few; I think they're the majority, in fact.

Your bigot epithet trivializes and degrades those who oppose
*real* bigotry, one of the world's most serious social
problems.  As a person who has to cope with the results of
bigotry every day, I resent that attitude considerably.

>	c.s.n.MISC:  Hum, it's name sure fits where such postings
>		     CAN be made!

Because a thing *can* be done does not argue that it should
be.

>| If anyone bothers to announce the results of the vote, I'm
>| sure there will be a nice new comp.sys.next.rtf, where
>| such neat posts will most *definitely* belong. 

>	It certainly doesn't mean RTF posts have to stop in THIS
>	newsgroup ...   8^)

We should know the results of the voting in a few hours, as
the deadline is under four hours away as I write.  I had the
*very* strong impression, however, that there was a
near-unanimous consensus that RTF postings would appear
*only* in the csn.rtf newsgroup, which was the primary
reason for proposing that group and a major factor in
expanding the CSN hierarchy at all.

If the new groups pass (I'll be surprised and disappointed
if they don't), then I think it very likely the appearance
of RTF postings here will be met with near-universal
opprobrium.  Nothing (other than good citizenship) would
*prevent* such postings, but that's true of any form of
irresponsibility on Usenet.

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