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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Suggestions for a new backbone (was: Re: comp.sys.next, voting, etc.)
Message-ID: <2198@looking.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 88 19:43:24 GMT
References: <5178@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <8187@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <7133@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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You simply can't elect people on this net.  We have endless trouble
just having votes on new newsgroups.   A couple of times it has been
suggested that moderators be nominated and elected.  It's always been
a mess.

The idea behind a good working anarchy is that you don't talk, you DO.
In the end, that's what will happen anyway.

Face it.  The people who own the sites on this net own their sites.
They will do with them exactly what they will.  They have no duty to feed
or not feed anything to anybody.   Democracy is meaningless because in the
end, if a site owner wants to disagree with a "majority decision" then
the site owner is free to do exactly that.

So why have something for appearances when it has no real meaning?
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473