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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: New newsgroup proceedures, voting..
Message-ID: <2910@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 01:06:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 01:06:25 1986
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Reply-To: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
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Summary: I agree, not by SA's vote alone

I agree with Ken.  I don't think a vote of ONLY Site or Netnews
Administrators should be the deciding factor.

I am alledgedly the Netnews Administrator here.  Recently Mark
Horton asked Adminstrators about what the readership of
mac articles was on their systems.  (net.sources.mac is a
touchy subject for me).  I told him that while I don't like them
and think they should be removed, there were several enthusiastic
Mac owners here that would kill me if I were to delete them.
(I sent him the count of net.*.mac readers here).

Frankly, though, I'm *glad* the decision wasn't just up to me.  I've
made my opinion on the matter clear (well, to Mike Smith, anyway ...)
but I go by "rule by the People" here, and I feel that I have been
outvoted.

I agree that decisions on newsgroup creation/deletion should
be up to the readers.  You might want to weigh votes at
backbone sites heavier (this reflects the reality of their
influence on the network), but in any case the vote of the People
is the Voice of Usenet!		(<-- the motto is public domain)
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,seismo,hplabs}!amdahl!gam

"Life's a bitch and then you die."