From: rra@stanford.edu 
  
 Woodchuck Bill  writes: 
  
 > Would the Stromboli votes have been unconditionally accepted throughout 
 > the past 10 years? 
  
 I think they would have always raised eyebrows, but I doubt they would 
 have been rejected. 
  
 > The ruling on the Linux on Xbox proposal might justify to others that it 
 > is OK to solicit their families to vote. 
  
 Hate to break it to you, but that was commonly discussed more than ten 
 years ago when I first started reading news.groups.  The world hasn't come 
 to an end yet.  :) 
  
 -- 
 Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)              
  
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