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Subject: Re: Request for special USENIX Meeting
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Date: Sun, 12-Apr-87 15:42:56 EST
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I seem to remember "Mark's Mob" [;-) smile, m. Horton] taking a straw
vote at several Usenix meetings on what those people present wanted
to do about the "news problem."  I don't remember any clear concensus
emerging.  What the "Cabal" seem to have done is tell everyone what
newsgroups THEY will be carrying, and what people hooked up to that
backbone can expect.  They even agreed on a schedule, so that prople
could get prepared, and tried to map as many of the old loved groups
into new ones as possible.  They also provide some administrative
services for free:  e.g., if you don't want to worry about rmgroup
messages, then they'll remotely disconnect groups that they're no
longer sending you.  (Personally, I hate it when a rmgroup gets here
before the construction of the corresponding new newsgroup ...)  There
may be a little more to it than that, but they and folks who agree
with them (like me?) keep pointing out that anyone can form their own
set of connections and even their own Backbone.

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