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From: dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU
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Subject: Spaf Pro-vote / Plea for Order
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Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 23:51:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 30 23:51:43 1987
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Reply-To: dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU (Dan R. Greening)
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In article <15982@gatech.gatech.edu> spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) writes:

>So here's the offer:  send me
>mail if you think I'm doing a rotten job at what I'm doing and/or you
>think the net is worse off under the current organization.  

I'll throw in my vote that you are doing a good job under trying 
circumstances.  However, as I have expounded at length in the 
moderators/backbone mailing lists, I feel very strongly that the net.anarchy 
has to end soon before we destroy the emotional stability of our fearless 
leaders and the confidence of the readership.  

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.

I'm confident that a set of coherent rules WILL be created eventually, because 
events will force them to be.  The question is whether it will be now, when
it is relatively easy, or later, when net.cabalites and net.readers have 
significantly battered each other.


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