Xref: utzoo news.admin:7837 news.groups:15196 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!texbell!sugar!ficc!jeffd From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Fixing the unbroken Message-ID: <7139@ficc.uu.net> Date: 29 Nov 89 11:28:56 GMT Organization: Ferranti International Controls Lines: 22 All of the proposals for new voting schemes -- and they seem to be getting hairier by the moment -- ignore one fact: the status quo works pretty well. An occasional abuse, like con.aquaria, does happen, but I'd hate to see the current nature of the net abandoned in an overly-zealous reach to stamp out all possible problems. A cure can be worse than the problem being addressed. Jeff Daiell Elise, are you still out there? -- "I'm just a soul whose intentions are good ... Oh, Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood!" -- The Animals Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com