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From: tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood WA3VQJ)
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Subject: Re: Proposed Guidelines Change (was Re: A Few Observations)
Message-ID: <20802@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 89 16:18:42 GMT
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In article <5969@unix.SRI.COM> maslak@unix.UUCP (Valerie Maslak) writes:
 
>The truth is that the proposers and the voters thought that
>comp.women was a fine group name that made sense in the hierarchy.
>Certain members of the junta didn't agree. THEY injected the
>politics.

>Chuq refers to guidelines versus rules. IT SEEMS THAT HE AND A FEW
>OTHERS CAN MAKE RULES; the rest of us have to settle for
>guidelines.

RULES!  GUIDELINES!  RULES!  GUIDELINES!

I say "LESS FILLING!"

The bottom line is that we all cooperate to make this possible.  If we
become unreasonable (or too complex) with these "rules/guidelines"
administrators will start honoring/ignoring NEWGROUPS and setting up
alternate hierarchies.  With the coming of the internet, the backbones
are dead -- we can set up our own newsfeeds and "nets".  Nobody makes
rules anymore.  If the guidelines are changed at whim of the few, only
a few will follow them.

>Valerie Maslak

Terry "Tastes Great" Wood
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