Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Anarchy Message-ID: <=237ZN6@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 20 Nov 90 15:26:24 GMT References: <1990Nov18.162646.15957@com50.c2s.mn.org> <1990Nov19.192456.3726@com50.c2s.mn.org> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 11 In article <1990Nov19.192456.3726@com50.c2s.mn.org> craig@com50.c2s.mn.org (Craig Wilson) writes: > Moderated newsgroups and the newgroup creation "rights" consolidated in the > hands of the moderator of news.announce.newgroups; to list the most obvious. Moderated newsgroups are moderated only by consensus. Consider that DDMI has suffered no penalties for forging approved messages to moderated groups. Newsgroup creation rights are available to all, if you can convince people to take your group. Consider all the alternate hierarchies, or groups that exist despite the opposition of the net.gods. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com