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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Results of sci.aquaria vote
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Date: 17 Nov 89 22:04:17 GMT
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In article <17049@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> hougen@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dean Hougen) writes:

| Chuq, listen up.  People will regularly contribute to a system if they feel 
| that the system is in some way theirs.  Not soley theirs, but a sort of joint
| property that they can have some say in.  Take away their right (priv.) to
| participate in the decisions of USENET and the users will go.  

  Not to let a FACT bother you, but the net was run by executive
decision for years and the users didn't go. I didn't like all the
decisions, but they were made on technical reasons (for the most part).
Maybe too much so, in some cases.

  The users didn't leave then, and they won't now. Looking at the
readership of this group compared to the total readers should put your
head back straight. Most people don't care enough about the voting
process to read the group.

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon