Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!datapg!com50!com2serv!craig From: craig@com2serv.C2S.MN.ORG (Craig S. Wilson) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Give it up, folks Message-ID: <3083@com50.C2S.MN.ORG> Date: 24 Nov 89 13:35:57 GMT References: <128132@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <3059@com50.C2S.MN.ORG> <20803@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Sender: nntp@com50.C2S.MN.ORG Reply-To: craig@com2serv.c2s.mn.org (Craig S. Wilson) Distribution: usa Organization: Com Squared Systems, Mendota Heights, MN Lines: 34 In article tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Terry J. Wood) writes: >In article craig@com2serv.c2s.mn.org (Craig S. Wilson) writes: > >>As to whether "one site, one vote" is unfair? Well, is the Senate of >>the United States unfair? > >Actually, YES! This is why we have the House of Represenatives and >vice-versa. >Terry Right! Now, as your reply points out, the House of Representatives has it's problems, also. That is why we have a bicameral legislature in the U.S. A similar arrangement exists in England with the House of Commons and the House of Lords. So, if you want to talk "democracy" and "representation" and use any of the major countries as an example, you'll agree that there should be a body on the Usenet providing an equal say to each registered site. And this body should be able to determine whether anything voted upon and passed by the "popular house" gets implemented. And this body should be able to pass and propose changes to the working of the Usenet according to their own rules. This body already exists. Albeit in an unorganized fashion. I am proposing that the body take more shape and more authority in the running of the Usenet. And then I am proposing that the "popular house" be reduced to advisory only w.r.t. the running of the Usenet. /craig Craig S. Wilson | Democracy |{amdahl|hpda}!bungia!com50!craig Com Squared Systems, Inc | is not a |craig@c2s.mn.org 2520 Pilot Knob Road | spectator |(612) 452-9522 voice Mendota Heights MN 55120 | sport. |(612) 452-3607 fax