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From: wildbill@ucbvax.UUCP (William J. Laubenheimer)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Committees
Message-ID: <910@ucbvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-May-84 19:11:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 29 19:11:12 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jun-84 07:26:07 EDT
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<Enter heavy sarcasm mode>
Great idea..."The Central Committee of the Usenet is now in session. Comrade
Nokitoff will begin with his report on net.wobegon and net.music.gdead.
Comrade Flamovitch will then lead a discussion of the 5-year plan for
installing automatic flame generators for contributions to net.politics
and why this plan has fallen further behind schedule. Measures for suppression
of subversives will be initiated; possible candidates include nsc!chuqui,
rabbit!jj, and watmath!saquigley. All power to the State."
<Exit heavy sarcasm mode>

Granting powers to any person or group invites use of that power, which
in turn invites misuse of that power. In the current state of affairs,
nobody has enough power to make its misuse affect more than his little
corner of the Net. I don't think it's a good idea to create something
that has a good chance of establishing what might as well be called the
USSRNET as anything else.

                  ____                  Bill Laubenheimer
      ___       /      \       ___      UC-Berkeley Computer Science
     /   \     |  o  o  |     /   \     ucbvax!wildbill
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          ...Killjoy was here!