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Article #2293

Prices on c.s.n.announce

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From: Edmund Ronald
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:21
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After seeing yet another $XXX.XX on c.s.n.announce the other night,
rather than yell or reboot my cube, I posted a call for people willing
to vote to send me mail so that I can make a credible call for a vote
on this single issue: Leaving prices in, instead of emasculating all
those sexy product announcments :-)

So far, 10 people have said they want prices, and a vote, 1 wants 
no prices, one just wants to be able to vote on the matter. Also,
ye excellent moderator, todd@liveware.com sent me a message asking
me to retract my request for a vote. Todd, who does great service to
us people by moderating C.s.n.a states that I am interfering with his 
efforts to clarify the issue by his "questionnaire". He also points 
out that I am not a moderator of "the groups".

As I said previously, todd does great work. However I think that,
on this one issue, he is wrong: People want prices. I think that if told
sufficiently often, very politely, by many people, he will come around
to respecting the majority opinion. Such majority opinion can only be 
determined by a vote, and I, and 10 others, want one.

As to the fact that I am not moderator of "the groups": csnm is un-moderated,
the archetypal electronic anarchy, and I believe that anyone who stays polite
and does not oveload the available bandwith is entitled to make his opinions
heard.

So, I wish ppeople to continue sending me (eronald@cnam.cnam.fr) and todd
( todd@liveware.com) their views on a vote about prices on c.s.n.a, and
I request that todd take his views on the matter of a vote on this issue
to public debate right here on csnm.

Thank you for your patience with this huge post!

Edmund.

--Copenhagen graffito: If voting helped, they'd make it illegal     --
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Subject: Prices on c.s.n.announce
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Date: 28 Aug 92 18:21:09 GMT
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