🚀 go-pugleaf

> I've been wondering, if the current guidelines are so inadequate, how
> come almost 800 people, a large turnout for Usenet, have already voted
> on a proposal whose Subject line only mentions the unmoderation of a
> group that hardly anyone reads because it has hardly any traffic?
> Could it be that people in another, more popular group actually read
> the proposal when it went by?  ...

I realize these are rhetorical questions, but as the poster of the
proposal in question I'd like to point out that I also posted a
separate article as a pointer to it, with a Subject line that *did*
mention the group whose effective renaming was proposed.  So the
parallel with, uh, a certain earlier situation is imperfect at best.
[My original Subject line mentioned both groups, but the moderator of
news.announce.newsgroups changed it.  I hope he's learned his lesson. :-)]

Followups are directed to news.admin.policy.
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Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com
	"The conversation never became heated, which would have been difficult
	 in any argument where there is a built-in cooling-down period between
	 any remark and its answer."		-- Hal Clement, STAR LIGHT

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