Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu-cs!ckd From: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Some observations on this whole mess. Message-ID: <42652@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 15 Nov 89 08:50:54 GMT References: <11171@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2752@cpoint.UUCP> <6803@ficc.uu.net> <1989Nov4.170406.11407@alembic.acs.com> <6819@ficc.uu.net> <1989Nov7.010805.12319@alembic.acs.com> <6854@ficc.uu.net> <1989Nov8.175742.26013@alembic.acs.com> <1989Nov13.071055.9401@xe Sender: daemon@bu-cs.BU.EDU Reply-To: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Boston University School of Management Lines: 25 >>>>> On 13 Nov 89 07:10:55 GMT, edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) said: Ed> [...only sysadmins/newsadmins would vote on new groups...] Would such Ed> a system be viable or even desireable? Should all valid votes Ed> originate from "usenet@site_name" ? Or news@site, or root@site? Not everyone uses 'usenet'. Modifying that slightly and saying it has to come from the listed contact from the map entry... well, maybe. Assuming that the sys/newsadmin (admin hereafter) votes, and that nobody's forging the admin's mail, and that the system even *has* a news or system administrator... Ed> Spare the flames, I'm merely posting a point for discussion. Ed> Would one vote per site be viable? Sounds good to me. But I want all those NNTP workstation votes. Maybe I should take gnus-use-generic-from out of my .emacs file--I could get votes for bucsb, bucsf, bu-pub, bass, corona, miller, pabst, stpauli, labatts, harp, molson, xx, ... I don't think so, in other words. -- Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90 "Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand."