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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Suggestions for a new backbone (was: Re: comp.sys.next, voting, etc.)
Message-ID: <17793@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 22 Oct 88 16:33:26 GMT
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Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
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     Let's not overorganize this thing.  Our happy computer-mediated anarchy
here works suprisingly well.  We should continue in that mode if only to find
out how far we can go.  

     As for "comp.sys.next", within one week of the NeXT product announcement,
the appropriate newsgroup had been created and was in full operation, and 
traffic in other newsgroups on that subject was starting to fall off.
The system worked.  In a few weeks, someone will surely kill "alt.next" as
redundant, and the process will be complete.  

     Could we worry about something else now, please?

					John Nagle