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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Suggestions for a new backbone (was: Re: comp.sys.next, voting, etc.)
Summary: comp.sys.next?
Message-ID: <240@obie.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 03:56:46 GMT
References: <5178@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <8187@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <17793@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Organization: the Well of Souls
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In article <17793@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>, jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) writes:
>      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.  

Oh?  Well apparently the control message to create comp.sys.next did not
propagate this far out into "the sticks."  Perhaps one of my upstream
sites was kind (smart?) enought to kill it.  I read news.all regularly,
and I don't recall seeing a discussion about comp.sys.next, or a call
for votes.  I also don't recall an announcement of the new group.  The
first I heard of it was that someone at Umich created it without
consulting anyone.

Who says the process is working?  Perhaps I should go create
rec.boats.sailing to get rid of all those stinkpot owners and windsurfers,
and then rec.boats.sailing.j-boats to get rid of Capri and Catalina owners,
and other lower life forms?  This is exactly the reason the voting rules
were initiated in the first place, isn't it?  It doesn't require
"overplanning" as you say, just obeying the rules that are alread in
place.

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certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

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