Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu!tjw From: tjw@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (TJ Wood WA3VQJ) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: SRH (soc.rights.human) is up, but with problems Message-ID: <19276@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu> Date: 25 Aug 89 17:41:28 GMT References: <19391@usc.edu> <19433@usc.edu> <578@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> Reply-To: tjw@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Terry J. Wood) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services Lines: 28 In article <578@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> randall@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) writes: >In article <19433@usc.edu> kriz@skat.usc.edu (Dennis Kriz) writes: >Greg Woods has no obligation to anyone to issue any newgroup just >as no system is obliged to carry any group. And no one has an obligation to "obey" any of our "rules" or "guidelines". If I wanted to start a discussion of human rights in news.groups, I certainly could. If others joined me in this we could "flood" this (or any other) group and take it over (whatever that means). Of course, anyone else could forge cancel messages from me and "get even". But I thought that the whole point of this "gentlemen's agreement", was to avoid situations such as I'm describing. This group (soc.rights.human) received a very large "YES" vote. Misnamed or not, users voted for it. Unless vote fraud can be shown, the "gentlemen's agreement" should be honored. Or we should admit that only when things go "our way", the agreement counts. Terry J. Wood -- (UUCP) {decwrl!decvax!idis, allegra, bellcore, cadre}!pitt!cisunx!cisvms!tjw (BITNET) TJW@PITTVMS (or) TJW@PITTUNIX (Internet) tjw%vms.cis.pitt.edu@unix.cis.pitt.edu (CC-Net) CISVMS::TJW (or) 33801::TJW (or) CISUNX::tjw (or) 33802::tjw