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From: mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Re: proposed 'standard' for creating new groups
Message-ID: <40@gilbbs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 03:45:40 EST
Article-I.D.: gilbbs.40
Posted: Fri Mar  7 03:45:40 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Mar-86 09:06:26 EST
References: <1073@burl.UUCP> <886@vortex.UUCP> <258@maynard.UUCP>
Organization: Gil's Place, Santa Rosa CA
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Summary: objection to being labelled a "fuzz-ball" site...

In article <258@maynard.UUCP>, campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
> > 1) Voting on Usenet is flawed.  If nothing else, we should be counting
> >    ONE VOTE PER SITE, not one vote per person...
> 
> This sounds reasonable at first.  However, a perhaps unintended side
> effect is to give excessive influence to the owners of "fuzzball hosts"
> (like vortex and maynard!).  Should someone with three IBM PCs in his
> basement really count more than 100 users of ihnp4?

   No, not *MORE* important.  Equally important, yes.  But I do not agree with 
Lauren on his one vote per site stance.


   I gather that you (Larry) and Lauren run essentially single user sites in
your homes.  While I am not a single user site (2.5, maybe? (-: ), I do run
my system in the closet of my bedroom (does this mean I'm 'coming out of the
closet"? (-:  ).  I do most vehemently object to being identified as a "fuzzball
host" simply because my computer doesn't represent hundreds of thousands of 
dollars worth of hardware, and I don't have a big, impressive sounding name for
my organization.

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tom keller
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