TAR@MAINE.BITNET (Thom Rounds) (12/28/89)
I already posted the call for votes for rec.music.pfloyd. Many people have told me that they never saw it and subsequently sent me 'NO' votes because I told them it was there and they didn't notice it. This is very immature, but I am forced to accept these votes. For those of you who didn't see it, it WAS posted, I don't know why you didn't see it, and I don't care. It's there. You may vote. I am the vote taker. Any questions?
tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (12/30/89)
[ A flame of Thom's diatribe appears in alt.flame for your viewing pleasure. ] In <TAR.89361214219@MAINE.BITNET> TAR@MAINE.BITNET (Thom Rounds) writes: > I already posted the call for votes for rec.music.pfloyd. Where? When? Under what title? Script started on Fri Dec 29 13:29:24 1989 $ foo () { > echo Total articles in $1 -- `ls $1 | wc -l` > echo > echo From Thom Rounds: > egrep "^Subject: " `egrep -l "From:.*TAR@MAINE\.BITNET" $1/*` /dev/null > } $ foo news/groups Total articles in news/groups -- 323 From Thom Rounds: news/groups/9544:Subject: Re: Suggestions for new Pink Floyd newsgroup news/groups/9572:Subject: Re: You're Not A Kid! news/groups/9634:Subject: My apologies news/groups/9658:Subject: Re: new Pink Floyd newsgroup news/groups/9763:Subject: Re: Pink Floyd Voting news/groups/9820:Subject: Re: new Pink Floyd newsgroup news/groups/9854:Subject: You people can start voting now... news/groups/9855:Subject: For all of you concerned with rec.music.pfloyd $ foo news/announce/newgroups Total articles in news/announce/newgroups -- 90 From Thom Rounds: $ foo rec/music/misc Total articles in rec/music/misc -- 352 From Thom Rounds: rec/music/misc/18781:Subject: You people can start voting now... $ foo alt/rock-n-roll Total articles in alt/rock-n-roll -- 91 From Thom Rounds: alt/rock-n-roll/4583:Subject: Re: are YOU Steve? alt/rock-n-roll/4637:Subject: You people can start voting now... $ exit script done on Fri Dec 29 13:36:12 1989 I keep two weeks of news at rpi.edu, except for news.announce.newgroups which has a month and a half to hang around. I also just double checked all of the articles there with a case insensitive search for "rounds" to make sure that Greg hadn't changed the From: line such that it wouldn't match the pattern I used above. It returned nothing. The "My apologies" article, where you bemoan that people are not voting, appeared six days after the current cut-off mark of this morning's expire run. You never did say how long ago the call was posted, but given both your impertinent attitude and the "Re: Suggestions for new Pink Floyd newsgroup" article still being around and not mentioning that a vote was in progress, I suspect it was sometime in this six day period that you attempted to post/dreamed you posted the call for votes. > Many people have told me that they never saw it and subsequently > sent me 'NO' votes because I told them it was there and they didn't > notice it. This is very immature, but I am forced to accept these > votes. Yes, it is. You wouldn't have been forced to accept them if you just acknowledged that a screw-up happened somehow in getting the call for votes out. Then you could have started with a (relatively) clean slate. At this point though, since you have been so insistent about how right you are, you're just going to have live with the fact that you've pretty much doomed the group which you championed. -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))