Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!uunet!samsung!usc!apple!chuq
From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Results of sci.aquaria vote
Message-ID: <36510@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 Nov 89 19:45:14 GMT
References: <2903@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> <528@panix.UUCP>
Organization: Life is just a Fantasy novel played for keeps
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>It's a great idea, but let's complete it.  Each system administrator's
>vote should be weighted by the size of his system's budget.

Down this road leads the Backbone Cabal, the purpose of which was to give
the people who were (and still are) paying for this thing we call a network
a say in where their dollars (and francs and pounds and...) were going.

Of course, the thought that "he who pays the bills calls the shot" went over
like a lead baloon with those who like getting USENET services for free...


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Chuq Von Rospach   <+>    Editor,OtherRealms    <+>   Member SFWA/ASFA
chuq@apple.com   <+>   CI$: 73317,635   <+>   [This is myself speaking]

All it takes if one thorn to make you forget the dozens of roses on the bush.