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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: New newsgroup proceedures, voting.. (long)
Message-ID: <1996@hao.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 23:51:16 EST
Article-I.D.: hao.1996
Posted: Tue Mar 11 23:51:16 1986
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> 
>   It seems to this observer (being quite new to the net...10 days today) that
> there is some confusion in this discussion of network decision processes.  In
> particular, I see the concept of "democracy" being raised repeatedly.  As *I*
> understand the network, it is an ad-hoc network, voluntarily supported by the
> participating sites.  There is no formal structure or organization controlling
> the network, or access to it.
> 
>   I see no mention or promise, implicit or explicit, of "democratic process" in
> this description of the network...

  I am not going to quote the entire article, although I would like to. I'd
just like to thank this author for expressing essentially my viewpoint (and
maybe that of other site administrators) in better words than I myself could 
write, and coming from a place where he can't be accused of bias in my favor.

--Greg
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