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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: If I see one more yes vote, I'll whimper!
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Date: Fri, 25-May-84 10:32:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 25 10:32:29 1984
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{look out, Martha! he's gone wild again! Run for the hills!}

Good grief, I seem to have been storing all of this up for a while. Here
goes Chuqui again. Warning. Major flame. All flammable materials should be
stored no closer than 50 feet from your terminal.

This absurd business of 'voting' on new topics has GOT to stop. It doesn't
do any good. It drives many people completely bonkers. If you REALLY REALLY
REALLY want a topic, show some need for it, for gawds sake! 

The whole administration of the network seems to have gotten completely out
of hand. There are now thousands and thousands (can you say 'Billions and
Billions? I knew you could) of sites out there and lots of users. To date
we've been able to survive as a loosely knit anarchy where the person with
the biggest stick (and/or loudest voice) has been able to get something
done, but in the last six months it has gotten to the point where a small
tactical thermonuclear device can't even make a dent in things. We are now
spending all of our time arguing and very little time being at all
productive on getting anything done. The net has simply gotten too large to
continue as an anarchy.

WAIT! don't hit that 'F' key yet. This is NOT Yet Another Usenet Inc. I
don't want to see that. What I think we need is (*gasp* Has Chuqui gone
sane?) a committee. Someone needs to oversee the process of creating (and
deleting perhaps) topics. I heartily suggest that we create a group of our
peers on the net who work on a voluntary basis. Instead of posting a
suggestion to net.news.group, you submit a proposal to this group with
justifications for its existence. Usage in another topic is a good one, but
there are many reasons for having topics. If they can get a positive
consensus, the group is created. If they disagree with you, it isn't. There
should be some way of appealing their decision, of course, but it has to be
an agreed upon procedure rather than something arbitrary like creating it
anyway. 

I suggest a group of something like five people that the majority of the
network users can agree with. If any three agree on something then that is
the decision. If the network decides that someone in the group (or the
group itself) blew it then they can be re-called (hmm.. voting and such. Is
this the beginning of a *gasp* democracy?)

Who? Well, for starters I immediately think of people like Mark Horton, the
networks paternal grandfather, Adam, Lauren, Armando, and other well known
and respected users. Most of these have had a large part in shaping what
the net is today and have done a good job of it. I think they can continue
to do so into the future as well if we cooperate with them.

flames to /dev/chuqui. Comments welcome

-- 
From the closet of anxieties of:			Chuq Von Rospach
{amd70,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui			(408) 733-2600 x242

I'm really gonna miss her. A tomato ate my sister...