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Path: utzoo!sq!msb
From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: mercy rule
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.183234.23830@sq.sq.com>
Summary: Yes
Reply-To: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
References: <EMV.90Feb15175723@duby.math.lsa.umich.edu> <2277@litchi.bbn.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 18:32:34 GMT

Rich Salz (rsalz@bbn.com) writes:
> Things work well enough now that I do not see a need to get an "obvious"
> group created six days earlier. ...

From where I sit, this assertion about "working well" seems obviously wrong.

I suggest that the person who proposed the "mercy rule" should conduct a
survey on it.  I say "survey" because, in the absence of a formal amending
procedure for the voting guidelines, the results have to be non-binding.
But they might, and I think will, be *convincing*.

-- 
Mark Brader		"I conducted a Usenet poll ... on this subject ...
Toronto			 Laura is single.  By a 2-1 margin."  -- Ken Perlow
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