From: bhk@dsl.co.uk 
  
 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.) 
  
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 Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                     bhk@dsl.co.uk 
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