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Re: Did comp.sys.next.richposts pass?

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From: Nathan F. Janette
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:35
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In article <12388@tamsun.tamu.edu> cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick)  
writes:
> In article <1992Apr10.173911.4603@newshost.lanl.gov>  
> tms@twins.lanl.gov (Todd M. Swan) writes:
> $ In article <1992Apr10.160856.2790@cs.yale.edu>  
> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu  
> $ (Nathan F. Janette) writes:
> $ > 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. 
> $ 
> $ I bet there won't be.  Even if there is it won't work.
> 
> I hope there will be.
> 
> A negative result of the voting on the recently-proposed  
> comp.sys.next.richposts should be construed as an affirmative for  
> continued (perhaps even expanded) rich-text postings on all other  
> comp.sys.next.* groups.

Although the percentage of "yes-to-no" votes was not
large enough (barely) to create the separate group under
USENET voting guidelines, the actual "yes" vote count
was more than 100 votes in the majority.  How do you figure
that is a mandate for *your* position???   

--
Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
New Haven, CT
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
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