Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!ames!pacbell!well!fico2!everexn!karen From: karen@everexn.uucp (Karen Valentino) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Yet another Yet another proposal. (YAYAP) Message-ID: <1989Oct11.171322.27621@everexn.uucp> Date: 11 Oct 89 17:13:22 GMT References: <8910081924.AA15716@helios.enea.se> <30310@looking.on.ca> Organization: Everex Systems, Inc. Lines: 22 brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >Here's a better idea. When an idea for a new group comes up, we should >have a vote on who gets to propose it. After that is decided, we can vote >on who gets to pick the names. Then we'll get a list of names, and >use 'New Zealand' voting rules. [Lots of other unique proposals deleted.] Brad's article *does* highlight how complicated things could get; it does seem that the potential exists for the news network to become a bureaucracy that will make the Pentagon look like baby stuff. :-) I don't have anything useful to contribute; reading Brad's article has made my head spin and I have to sit down for a while. Karen -- Karen Valentino <> Everex North (Everex Systems) <> Sebastopol, CA ...pacbell!{mslbrb, well!fico2}!everexn!karen