Return-Path: Received: from ted.cs.uidaho.edu by swan.cl.cam.ac.uk with SMTP (PP-6.0) id <23706-0@swan.cl.cam.ac.uk>; Fri, 13 Mar 1992 11:34:08 +0000 Received: by ted.cs.uidaho.edu (16.6/1.34) id AA13387; Fri, 13 Mar 92 03:21:56 -0800 Sender: info-hol-request@edu.uidaho.cs.ted Errors-To: info-hol-request@edu.uidaho.cs.ted Received: from swan.cl.cam.ac.uk by ted.cs.uidaho.edu (16.6/1.34) id AA13383; Fri, 13 Mar 92 03:21:51 -0800 Received: from razorbill.cl.cam.ac.uk by swan.cl.cam.ac.uk with SMTP (PP-6.0) to cl id <23364-0@swan.cl.cam.ac.uk>; Fri, 13 Mar 1992 11:23:31 +0000 To: Jeffrey Joyce Cc: info-hol , Jim.Grundy@uk.ac.cam.cl Subject: Re: CALL FOR VOTES - HUG-93 In-Reply-To: Your message of 12 Mar 92 22:50:00. <4365*joyce@cs.ubc.ca> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 11:23:20 +0000 From: Jim Grundy Message-Id: <"swan.cl.ca.392:13.02.92.11.23.44"@cl.cam.ac.uk> People have asked for soemone in Europe to come out in favour of alternating the HOL workshop between North America and Europe. OK - I think it would be a good thing for the conference to alternate between North America and Europe. But then,... I'm not really a European am I. I'm Australian and I am just here for 3 years. Still perhaps that counts for something as Australia is probably about equidistant (travel cost wise) between North America and Europe. Also, I suspect, preferential/sigle-transferable voting may still be a good idea for situations where more than 2 proposals eminate from the one continent; but that is yet to happen and it may never happen. Final I would like to draw attention to this line in Jeff's last mailing: > us "crafty North Americans" are going to be "sore losers" should The "crafty North Americans" is a quote out of context from one of my eariler mailings. I feel its appearance here without its original context fails to convey the fact that it was not meant to be taken seriously. Further, since this was a direct quote from me and the phrase "sore losers" appears on the same line in the same quoation marks, some readers may make the inference that "sore losers" was also a quote from me. It was not, I never suggested anything like it. I don't think Jeff intended for anyone to make that inference - I just want to ensure that nobody does. Jim