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From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: magic numbers (Really: votes fo
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 10:31:00 EDT
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> Yes, but .... I agree, but .... What about our phone bills?  (If it
> weren't for the generosity of one of our neighbors, we'd be off of the
> net, or receiving very little, right now.)
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If it has no traffic, it costs nothing in phone bills.  If it has
traffic, it deserves to live.  The only valid criterion for existence
of a group on this net is whether people will/do use it.  If we
start trying to impose "worthiness" rules, whether by abdicating
that authority to some individual or by accepting consensus decisions,
we begin moving inevitably toward the sort of political decisions that
will make the net untenable in any useful form.

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scott preece
gould/csd - urbana
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