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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: A Few Observations
Message-ID: <255C6AC6.29438@ateng.com>
Date: 11 Nov 89 18:53:56 GMT
References: <1989Nov10.045531.4549@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to tlegelst@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Thomas Lynn Egelston Ii):
>[The] current voting system ... *is* the official way to create a
>new newsgroup

Bzzt.  Usenet doesn't have "official" anything.  No official organization,
no official rules, no official enforcement, no official officials.  None.

>I favor a percentage, personally 2/3 Yes, for creating a newsgroup [...]

Of course!  Why didn't I think of that?  :-)

>Finally, I think it's high time we all grew up a little bit.

Fat chance.  This is Usenet, altogether too much like the Real World[tm]
for comfort:

    "The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all
     time.  The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their
     lack of consistency."
		      -- Albert Einstein

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