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From: marv@vsedev.VSE.COM (Marvin Raab)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc,news.stargate,news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Re: Spaf Pro-vote / Plea for Order
Message-ID: <709@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 18:07:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: vsedev.709
Posted: Thu Jul  2 18:07:18 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 08:47:32 EDT
References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <15982@gatech.gatech.edu> <6948@shemp.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: marv@vsedev.UUCP (Marvin Raab)
Organization: VSE Software Development Lab, Arlington, VA
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Keywords: Coherent Rules, Exponential Flaming
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In article <6948@shemp.UCLA.EDU> dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU (Dan R. Greening) writes:
>It really is time for a USENET constitution, or at least a set of clearly
>specified rules.  Otherwise this flaming stuff just keeps getting bigger.
>I've seen it happen before, in less electronic, but equally loud
>constituencies.


     Not a bad idea but it could lead to:
 
        1) competition
        2) a "civil war" forcing the development of two or more separate
           networks...


     Is USENET becoming too large to be contained in one Net?


                                   -marvin

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