From: don-aitken@freeuk.com 
  
 On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:37:01 +0100 (BST), bhk@dsl.co.uk (Brian 
 {Hamilton Kelly}) wrote: 
  
 >On Wednesday, in article 
 >      
 >     robert.mcclenon@verizon.net "Robert McClenon" wrote: 
 > 
 >> The so-called amazing coincidences to which you refer have to do with 
 >> large groups of otherwise unknown people who may have been invented. 
 >> I am also suspicious.  On the other hand, it doesn't matter on this 
 >> CFV.  The arithmetic doesn't change. 
 >> 
 >> We are seeing a disturbing pattern of what may be invented votes, and 
 >> the next time that a proponent is able to get an honest 125 YES votes, 
 >> they may have to be investigated because they may really matter. 
 > 
 >Which will probably be too late: the time to investigate is NOW.  It 
 >matters not one whit that discounting the votes will not affect the 
 >outcome: the very fact of NOT challenging them creates a precedent in 
 >which such votes will have already been accepted. 
 > 
 >You guys _really_ need to look at the acceptability criteria adopted by 
 >uk.*; the only thing that surprises me is that these disruptive elements 
 >were first detected, "outed", and vitiated in that hierarchy.  I had 
 >assumed that the Big8 would have already had to encounter these 
 >stupidities and overcome them before uk.* suffered. 
 > 
 >(Sadly, OOTOMH, I cannot remember the URL for the uk.net.news.config and 
 >related newsgroups' website which describes all these criteria.) 
  
 http://www.usenet.org.uk/ and http://www.ukvoting.org.uk/ 
  
  
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