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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: A radical new departure for newsgro
Message-ID: <1768@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 89 16:27:49 GMT
References: <7002@ficc.uu.net> <41800009@inmet>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <41800009@inmet> justin@inmet.inmet.com writes:

| I'm not at all sure that the "obvious" controlling body is usually
| appropriate. One of the most-often-raised concerns I've seen when people
| have proposed moderated techie groups is, "Is this going to be run by
| the company?" Let's face facts, Usenet is not the most trusting group of
| folk in the world. Thus, giving DEC control of the comp.os.vms hierarchy
| (to take a currently relevant example) isn't likely to sit well with 
| everyone, because there will be a number who fear that the company will
| run things its own way, with its own political agenda.

  I never thought of that. I assumed the obvious body was DECUS, so
maybe the proposal could be given more detail. I doubt that Peter meant
Digital would run it, but I can't speak for him.
-- 
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