Aucbarpa.582
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Fri Dec 25 23:49:06 1981
Dictator
Does anybody contest that we need some sort of central standardizing
(for want of a better werrd) body?  Personally, I don't even have
entirely too much objection to a dictator.  (I'm not suggesting myself
by any means, although everybody surely wants me.  Count me out of
the Battle of the Network Stars.  Egghead Academicians or otherwise.)
We're not going to get some fanatic who will only sanction newsgroups
about competitive tanning.  Practically anybody would be reasonable.
3 people sounds a little more flexible to me.  It also would allow
any one person to stay away from his/her terminal for a while (don't
even mention vice-dictators).  This sounds neat:  One person from
Academia.  Another from BTL and another from one of the other lone-
site private industries.  Of course, just because it sounds neat doesn't
mean it makes any sense.

This is all based on a need for a central standardizing body, of course.
Hmmmm.  Only 15 minutes or so left of Christmas '81 on the North American
continent.  Mebbe Alaska, but that doesn't count.  After all, they don't
even have a USENET site there yet.  Good night, USENET.

	Matt