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From: cmf@obie.cis.pitt.edu (Carl M. Fongheiser)
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Subject: Re: Give it up, folks
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Date: 14 Nov 89 19:41:26 GMT
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In article <36343@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>o I'm not on the committee. (I, for one, am happy with that)
>o The charter of the NSC is to create groups unless there is an overriding
>  reason not to, rather than inhibit newsgroup creation unless there is a
>  reason to. So the default is, essentially, "Yes" instead of "No".
>o There's an appeal process. You don't like the answer you got from the
>  NSC, you can appeal it to the net.

So long as the "NameSpace Committee" refrains from politicking during the
vote.  This means no more "I urge you to vote no", or even "we don't think
this is a good idea".  The fact that it didn't pass Committee scrutiny
should be enough message to the voters as to their feelings.

>At least two of those differences are non-trivial in my eyes.

Indeed.  Properly executed, this could be as harmonious as we've ever had
it.

				Carl Fongheiser
				cmf@unix.cis.pitt.edu