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jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
>>Hey...choose your names carefully! Try "innocent novices unaware of what a
>>name change can do" instead of "clueless idiots"...unless that was a freudian
>>slip of the fingers of course. (Betraying your real feelings?)
>No, my real feelings on this issue are that this is one of the most
>pathetic examples of making a mountain out of a molehill that I've ever
>seen.  You're assuming that the average rec.music.synth reader had an IQ
>about that of the common woodchuck (no flames from rec.humor.oracle.d
>people, please),

I'm not assuming anything about IQ. I'm simply pointing out that they didn't
know that the synth-L list would drop away because of this.

>and that it truly makes a difference whether we stick the
>word "makers" in there or not.  

If it were truly a transparent change, I wouldn't care eather. Synth readers
are learning the hard way about USENET. That's just as pointless as arguing
about the name.

>>guidelines or newbie docs or anything. This is a REAL BIG CLUE that people
>>in that group are uncommonly aware of USENET politics...unlike 80% of the 
>>groups out there now. 
>>Which proves my points about elitism exactly...or let me use a better word...
>>FAVORITISM. Think about it. 
>I did think about it, Dave.  I think you're right, too.  Elvis _is_ alive
>in Paraguay training commandos to storm the Bastille and free Napoleon.

Cute. Dodge the concept and then the issue. Fair enough.

>Let the issue drop.  Please.

Why? 
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