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From: richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Newsgroup creations and deletions
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Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 23:57:33 EDT
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In regards to the recent creation of mod.general without prior
discussion on the net, Mark Horton says:

> 
> Good grief, Lauren!  If I remember right, you were AT the Usenet
> BOF where this decision was made!  It wasn't controversial at
> all, it was unanimous.  The only concern expressed was to make sure
> the people who weren't at the BOF had a chance to comment, and
> so a survey of the net was taken.  This pointed out that the traffic
> needed someplace to go, which is why the delay.  We finally have a
> solution to this problem.
> 

Good grief, Mark!  I was wondering why you didn't remove mod.general
when it popped up unannounced!  You were one of the ones behind it.

Yes, Mark and friends have done many fine things for the rest of us.

But, it looks like some of these guys are starting to over-step their
authority a bit in their impatience to bend the net to fit their image
of the way things should be.

Private meetings among small groups of net wizards is just fine.  Just
as long as they don't make any real decisions for the rest of us without
bothering to consult us.

I suspect we will be seeing more of this kind of thing in the future from
various people.  Let's keep an eye out for it shall we.
-- 
Richard Foulk		...{dual,vortex,ihnp4}!islenet!richard
Honolulu, Hawaii	or ...!islenet!bigtuna!richard