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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: The politics of groups (of people)
Message-ID: <791@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 19:48:34 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  7 19:48:34 1985
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I agree that letting individual sites make decisions regarding
what groups they should carry will help the current situation.
Obviously, they have that right now, but few exercise it.

I doubt, however, that geographic distributions will be of much
use.  People want to ask their questions to, and have their 
comments heard by, the widest audience possible.  If we try
to enforce distributions on topics that aren't "naturally"
regional (like Calif. politics) I think we'll find gateways
and other mechanisms popping up to spread the stuff all over the
net.  I just don't see distributions as a long-term control
technique.  Even the topology of the net tends to cause
local distributions to have only limited value.

--Lauren--