From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_DATE, MSGID_SHORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Xref: utzoo comp.lang.ada:2049 comp.software-eng:1136 news.groups:7595 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!ficc!jeffd From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.software-eng,news.groups Subject: Re: comp.sw.components & newsgroup voting Summary: Quantity or Quality? Message-ID: <3193@ficc.uu.net> Date: 24 Feb 89 19:03:50 GMT References: <3177@ficc.uu.net> <4535@hubcap.UUCP> Organization: Ferranti International Controls List-Id: In article <4535@hubcap.UUCP>, William Thomas Wolfe,2847, writes: > > The comp.sw.components Mailing List is ... 96 ... strong, > and ... 2 have so far stated that they want to be on > the mailing list but would not presently support a newsgroup. They > are more than neutralized by 3 people who voted in favor of the > newsgroup but did not want to be on the mailing list. > > Therefore, I think this essentially amounts to a tempest in a teapot, Someone else has already dealt with the other issues here, so I'll just deal with one: it *seems* (correctly me politely if I'm wrong), that William is saying that it's okay to be unethical and presumptuous, as long as it's on a small scale, or if only a few people are hurt thereby. *If* that's his argument, I don't buy it. Wrong is wrong, regardless of the extent to which it's practiced. Go back to my example -- of States automatically recording people registered as Democratic, Republican, or Libertarian as having voted a straight party ticket for the party with which they're registered. Would it matter if only a few members of each party wanted to split their tickets, not vote, vote a straight ticket for another party that one time, etc.? No, of course, not. I think the proposed newsgroup *should* be created. But by ethical means. Para un Tejas Libre, Jeff Daiell -- IN CASE OF EMERGENCY EVACUATION, REMEMBER THE TIME-HONORED RULE: WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND TECH AIDES FIRST.