Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!killer!pollux!dalsqnt!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Suggestions for a new backbone Message-ID: <8280@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 26 Oct 88 23:51:38 GMT References: <5178@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <8187@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <895@ncar.ucar.edu> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX Lines: 42 In article <895@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes: >In article <8187@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) writes: >>What we need is a smaller backbone with members selected by the community. >>It was claimed, true or false I won't say, that Rick Adams and Greg Woods >>were directly responsible for comp.society.women being held hostage. > > Whether it is true or not, you have slandered my name in public by making >such a charge, and I demand to see your evidence. I claim you're full of it. He later goes to prove that I was not full of it ... >All I did was post my opinions, just as you and everyone else did. Being >on the "backbone" (in the old sense) or "the committee" (in the new sense) >does not, as far as I know, mean that you no longer get to have any personal >opinions. The newsgroup was duly and properly voted on, according to established procedures. There was no claim that the newsgroup was frivilious or a farce, as there was with comp.protocols.tpc-ip.eniac. The group passed by a more than healthy margin with a large number of votes. There was some discussion regarding the name of the group, however, that issue was resolved almost immediately. There was no discussion regarding the legality or propriety of the group as there has been in the past with rec.sex or rec.drugs. At that point, you, as a member of the backbone *DON'T* have an opinion. You have an obligation to perform your responsibility. Come November 8th when the voters in this country elect an electoral college to select the president, the members of that college will not have as an option doing something other than performing their responsibility. > It was necessary to discover who was in >the majority first. Said task having been performed prior to your decision to raise a fuss, I think my claim that you and Rick held the group hostage over threats of unilaterally rmgroup'ing it after its creation, is correct. -- John F. Haugh II +----Make believe quote of the week---- VoiceNet: (214) 250-3311 Data: -6272 | Nancy Reagan on Richard Stallman: InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US | "Just say `Gno'" UucpNet : !killer!rpp386!jfh +--------------------------------------