On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:45:21 +0000, Paul Giverin
wrote:

In message , Ace
writes

Sorry, in what way exactly would the continued non-existence of a
group you've no intention of posting to affect your 'Usenet
experience'?

Its not the "non-existence" of a group which would affect me but the
practice of vetoing a new group just because it may affect a group in
another hierarchy.

One event does not a 'practice' make.

You may not know it but a similar argument was used earlier this year to
prevent the formation of uk.sport.motorsport.formula1

Like I'd care? Unlike yourself, it seems, most rsre posters are just
interested in exchanging views about snowsports. It's not exactly a
complicated argument to follow.


What you're actually saying is that you'd vote for a new group whether
there's a demand or not. It may not be your intention, but this "I'll
vote yes just for the sake of it" is saying exactly that.

I don't normally vote on newsgroup creations which don't interest me in
some way but when I see people declare their intentions to vote "no"
just to protect a group in another hierarchy then I will use my vote to
try and counter what I see as the right of uk.* to function in the way
its members wish.

Oh, "rights". You're on some sort of personal crusade to right
Usenet's wrongs, are you?

Why the **** not? What's it got to do with you?

What's it got to do with me? Its got everything to do with me. Surely I
don't have to spell it out again?

You do. I still completely fail to understand why the existence, or
otherwise, of a uk.* skiing ng to which you have no intention of
contributing, should affect you in any way whatsoever.

Usenet is not supposed to be competitive.

Then why try and veto a uk.* group because a skiing group exists in
rec.*?

No-ones trying to veto it. We're simply pointing out that amongst
skiing Usenet users there already exists a forum which completely
overlaps with, and therefore renders futile and unneccessary, the
creation of the proposed group. Therefore we'd vote against its
formation.

You should really look up the words 'veto' and 'vote'. They may use
the same letters but have quite different meanings.

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Ace (bruce dot rogers at roche dot com)
Ski Club of Great Britain - http://www.skiclub.co.uk
All opinions expressed are personal and in no way represent those of the Ski Club.