Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Democracy at work: Big brother is watching Message-ID: <2225@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: 16 Jun 88 16:12:52 GMT References: <953@papaya.bbn.com> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 31 In article <953@papaya.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: >Unh, Joe, how do you know that this is not the first time there hasn't >been consensus? If the issue is highly divided, it seems well within >the rights of one member of the backbone list to say that consensus >hasn't been achieved. Given the declining importance of the backbone in the topology of Usenet, I'm a lot less willing to tolerate backbone vetos of responsible group proposals. * Hell, if every backbone site pulled off the net and the part I could access collapsed down to the Bay Area, we'd still have a network of nearly a thousand sites, and the UUNET service I buy will get mail elsewhere. If I could trust the backbone to act responsibly, I'd have no problem, but I'm seeing irresponsible behavior on this one. Rick threatened to send out an rmgroup if Gene created the group, even though it is approved by the net and that approval has been accepted by the guy with the responsibility for keeping the official list. Even though, like Rick, I think comp.society.women would be a better name, I don't seek to impose my will on others. This is not a case of the net voting itself a free lunch at the backbone's expense. ------------ * - Bob Webber's proposal for comp.bizarre.eniac or whatever is an example of an IRresponsible proposal. Veto all of those you want, guys. -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,pyramid,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck jbuck@epimass.epi.com Old Arpa mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net % make love Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.