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From: chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: New newsgroup proceedures, voting..
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 12:17:25 EST
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> I don't, unfortunately, have a good idea for how to add newsgroups.
> IF the net was a collection of cooperating entities, perhaps
> voting 1/site would work, but given the reactionaries and
> such, I don't know how to ensure a 'fair' vote.  

In general, I agreed with Lauren's comments on creating new groups.

There are a couple of suggestions I've made in the past that I think are
worth considering, so I'll toss them out once again into the void:

o No new group is created unless the net can agree on another group to 
	get rid of with a rmgroup. I think that there are MORE than enough
	groups on the net, but most of them are or little to no value.
	Among other things, this will guarantee that the people wanting
	the new group are serious (do we need net.foobar MORE than we need
	net.wobegon?) and will help clean up the naming space and make it
	more efficient and useful.

o Rather than one vote per site, make it one vote per feed, with votes being
	made by the SA. This gives the sites that are funding the net, the
	backbones, the added priviledge of helping to decide where the money
	they are spending on this thing is used.

chuq

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