*** Quoting Roy Witt from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 PL>> What percentage of -responding- nodes voted -for-, and what
 PL>> percentage voted -against-... this is of -responding- nodes who
 PL>> actually particip

 CS> Ward posted that a moment ago.  I have only his report on it.

RW> And there's another problem with it, we only have Ward's word for what
RW> went on there.

Thats true, but notice no one from that area has discounted it either. 
only ¨shifted the representation to make it look like a majority based on
310 who ¨'wanted something to change' out of what, 4,000 nodes?  5,000
nodes?

If Russia has a probem being 'heard' due to shere innacurate nodelist
numbers, ¨then they need to clean up their segment.  I doubt seriously that
the mess is ¨that bad that 310 people are a 'majority' there.  Most likely
surmise for now ¨without better information was the poll was too
hairbrained radical to have the ¨more stable main membership reply to it.

Remember I've been chatting with various people there for 15 years or more
and ¨over time have asked many questions on 'how things work'.  Western Z2
and ¨eastern Z2 are very different entities on that but mostly they split
on ¨echopol-like issues.  R50 excommunicates based on as little as local
echo ¨ruckus and you would have been history really fast there.  You'd have
the ¨company of at least 2 R50 sysops that I know of in very recent times
who's ¨transgressions were *far* lighter than yours would be percieved as.
                                       xxcarol

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