Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Scrap the current NG creation procedure, invent a new one
Message-ID: <3026@looking.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 17:57:38 GMT
References: <3010@looking.UUCP> <3011@looking.UUCP> <2147@viscous.sco.COM>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <2147@viscous.sco.COM> davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) writes:
>1)  You're giving an advisory board powers over the creation of newsgroups 
>for the entire net?  I don't want to depend on the whim of whichever 5 
>people happen to be in charge at the time.

No, it is not being granted powers.  It is an advisory board.  The power
over creation/deletion of groups resides, and always will reside with
system admins.   The power still resides with them now, with the surveys
that get taken under the current guidelines.  This does not move the power,
it moves the process of giving advice on the decision.

>2)  news.groups should NOT be moderated.
>3)  Who would moderate the new news.groups?

The group would be moderated not like a regular moderated group, but to
allow only the posting of surveys, survey results and board advice.  No person
would be the moderator.  Postings would be forwarded to a board alias, and from
there to the chair.


If most people are really as emotional about newsgroup creation as this
posting suggests, then UNLAB won't work.   In my mind, to most of the net,
it's pretty much a non-issue.  A simple matter not worthy of pretend
participatory democracy.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473