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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: There isn't even a `backbone' alias any more
Summary: I want my backbone back ...
Message-ID: <7366@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 1 Oct 88 06:20:12 GMT
References: <22931@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <5681@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <1106@fig.bbn.com>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX
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In article <1106@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>=... someone should start a new mailing list to replace
>=the defunct backbone list; a "usenet admin" list open to any interested
>=news administrators...
>
>It's called news.admin.  Either the door is wide-open and any flaming
>bozo can post, or it's a self-selecting "cabal."  Either way, you lose.

My personal complaint with the backbone "cabal" was that the backbone
mailing list was not gatewayed on the net.  Suprize decisions were handed
down without any discussion being present to the rest of the net.

The U.S. Constitution managed to implement the congress correctly when it
required the congressional record be published.  I wouldn't mind a "cabal",
I'd just like to know what was going on.