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From: tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood WA3VQJ)
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Subject: Re: Give it up, folks
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Date: 25 Nov 89 19:18:58 GMT
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Reply-To: tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Terry J. Wood)
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>In article <3083@com50.C2S.MN.ORG> craig@com2serv.c2s.mn.org (Craig S. Wilson) writes:
>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.

>Right! Now, as your reply points out, the House of
>Representatives has it's problems, also.

I was pointing out that the US has The House and the Senate in order to
"play" both sides of the argument: Population vs Territory.  We have the
same situation on USENET.

However, I don't believe that more "rules" or "guidelines" will 
help, since if it becomes unreasonable to create newsgroups, people will
simply look elsewhere.

It comes as no suprise to me that we're seeing the creation of new NETs.
If I wanted to do some serious traffic passing, going to USENET to beg
permission and name selection would be low on my list.  If I knew of
sites interested in the traffic (and we had direct connections via phone
line or internet) why bother with USENET?  Now that the internet is
spreading throughout the nation, this option looks far better.

The splintering of the "net" is at hand.

Terry
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