From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
Subject: Re: Email Copy of REPUBLICAN PLATFORM to me
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 18:27:23 GMT

pschleck@cwis.unomaha.edu (Paul W Schleck KD3FU) writes:

>mok@fortsc.enet.dec.com (Charles Mok) writes:


>>In article <akyy3!p@rpi.edu>, buckmr@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire) writes...
>>> 
>>>Subject line says it all. I'm looking for a copy of the Republican Platform.
>>>Could someone please email it to me or tell me the address of a site where I can
>>>ftp it from? Thanks.

>>Yes, me too, if anyone has it.  Thanks in advance!!!

>>Charles

>Sheesh!

>Guys, it's time for a little tutorial in net-etiquette:

>1.  Asking nicely for obscure information is probably OK, but asking for
>something you could find yourself with a little effort is a form of net
>"panhandling,"

Paul, I would think that a lot of people are assuming that the Republican
platform has got to be around somewhere since ardent Democrats and 
Libertarians have made their platforms widely available on the net.  I
think these people are asking on the assumption that it is available.
BTW, I think that a budding College Republican would be all fired up to
scan it in and jet it all over the country electronically.

>2.  There are no paid Usenet employees (except for your overworked local
>system administrators and network managers), only peers and volunteer
>participants whose time is every bit as valuable as yours, if not more
>so.

There's been some folks who are really steamed over the fact that 
alt.politics.clinton has been just about turned into a Clinton press
release and campaigning group.  Most of the people complaining are
Republicans.  Why aren't the Republican folk taking advantage of Usenet
by posting stuff which is favorable to Bush?  (I guess I assumed that if
Bush was so popular, people would be all fired up to do whatever they 
could to spread the word.)

>3.  The "thanks in advance" bit is reminiscent of an annoying
>boss/supervisor, who would order you to do something, then say "thanks
>in advance."  Thanks are appropriate after someone has provided you with
>some assistance.

I think maybe you're going a little too far with this, Paul.  I think they
are just trying to be polite.

>4.  What on earth do you expect to the "me too" thing to do?  Make paid
>Usenet employees come out of the woodwork an honor your request
>(according to Internet RFC 237593, as I recall.....)?  To your credit,
>at least you didn't say "please E-mail, as I DON'T HAVE TIME to read
>news."  Check #2, if you don't understand why that one is so
>deleterious.

See my response to #2.  I'd think that there'd be some Bush fanatic going,
"Oh my gosh!  I am going to mail this to Person X because gosh, it's such
a great document they'd just have to vote for Bush if they read it."

If you ask me, the Bush supporters seem to be lacking zeal and I wonder if
the Republicans are getting just a little too laid back and really do think
that Bush is Truman or something.  Notice that Clinton is not running like
Dewey.  Clinton is campaigning aggressively and his volunteers are 
volunteering aggressively.

>I too would like to see the platform on-line, but as Ms. O'Neil pointed
>out (Hi Sharon!) someone hasn't done the work.  If it ever does appear,
>Archie or comp.archives would probably be the place to look for it. 

I'd say keep on checking on nptn.org and info.umd.edu because eventually,
someone may upload it on one of those two anonymous FTP sites.  (Check them
out anyway, since there's lotsa good stuff on both about the elections 
anyway.)

>Call me a flame-baiter, even call me a "control-freak," but that's my
>opinion.

You're being a control freak, Paul.  :-)

>Paul W. Schleck
>pschleck@unomaha.edu

Sharon O'Neil
oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Yes, I know Paul.)

>(Who missed voting for Reagan in 1984 by *ONE YEAR* of age.... :-(

BTW, I'm glad I missed voting for Reagan by one year.  I wouldn't want to
have to bear the guilt.

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