Re: Is shared generally agreed...NO!

[Bob Helfant <bhelfant@globecomm.net>]

This is astonishing.  You name five people and conclude the shared model
has complete concensus.  Isn't anyone interested enough to call for a
ballot on the issues to really see how everyone feels before this list is
closed?

Bob Helfant
GlobeComm

At 05:00 PM 1/8/97 -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote:
>Jeff Williams writes:
> > Leo Smith wrote:
> > > Not by a long shot. The issues surrounding the shared versus exclusive
> > > have been sufficiently aired by those in this discussion group. There
> > > are those in this group that adamently opposed a shared model, and I
> > > am one. We now wait for the revision to see which way the IAHC members
> > > will go...
> >   I also oppose a totaly shared model myself.  As do many others that
> > have posted here.  But as you say, we shall see if the members have 
> > truely listened.
>
>Far more people support the shared model than that miniscule minority
>who keeps yelling about the private model. Jeff, Leo, Chris, Karl and
>Palmer are the only ones who have spoken against the shared model. Chris
>has expressed his willingness to abide by the shared model. Palmer is
>violently opposed to any scheme where he will actually have to use his
>brain to figure out how to make a business work. Jeff and Leo have
>asserted no real argument against the shared model except to say that it
>is ``unproven'' technology despite everyone's attempt to show them
>existing examples of the technology in action.
>
>So, I think that we can safely say that the shared model has complete
>consensus.
>
>/Joe
>