the c.u.w vote war and endless discssion

[W. Phillip Moore]

I may regret opening my mouth about this, but...

In article <1990Oct23.013425.21701 at decuac.dec.com> mjr at gildor.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:

	   Can we all calm down slightly about this ? It's only usenet.
   Pause to think that the reorganization was to keep "newbies" from making
   "non-wizard" postings in comp.unix.wizards - instead we are plagued
   with endless rounds of comp.unix.recriminations. The signal to noise
   ratio is probably even lower than it was before the reorganization,
   not because of "how do you remove a file starting with '-'" questions
   but because of net politics and policies being placed at a higher
   priority than useful technical communication.

Here, here!!  I am amazed at how much bandwidth is being wasted arguing
over the creation/destruction of a newsgroup(s) for the purpose of cutting
down on bandwidth.  This nonsense has turned into a personal argument
between a few people who seem to have enough time every day to post pages
and pages of continuing nonsense to keep the fight going.

	   Don't worry about scaring off the wizards with stupid questions.
   Stupid debates are just as effective.

And stupid debates we have seen.  The arguement should be moved to email,
not posted worldwide.  The nonsense is no longer amuzing.  I think the
participants on both sides are not acting their age -- assuming they can at
least vote. 

(set flame nil)

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