Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!davidbe
From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Scrap the current NG creation procedure, invent a new one
Message-ID: <2142@viscous.sco.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 89 21:11:28 GMT
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brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) said:
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-Let's review the purpose of the current procedure.  Newsgroup carrying
-is, of course, done by net admins.  Net admins need a convenient system
-to help them decide, usually as a group, what newsgroups are worth carrying
-on their machines.

There can't be any.  The net is made up of individuals, not of robots.  The
sys and net admins you're talking about work in completely different
environments.  The admin policies at a Detroit automaker are going to
be different than those of the news admin at MIT, or Big Electric Cat, or
any number of machines owned by individuals (to name a couple of examples).

The word "convenient" should never be used to complement the phrase
"group decision".  Group decisions (democracy, republics, consensus) is
a messy way to run something.  All it does is make sure that everyone
(or a majority) is equally unsatisfied.

-Replace it with what?  The next posting says.  If you have a real
-replacement, let's hear yours, too.

Replace it?  WHY?  It may not be working perfectly, but it *is* working.
Leave well enough alone.

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     David Bedno, Systems Administrator, The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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