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
Keywords: newgroup, vote, control
Message-ID: <3031@looking.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 17:14:42 GMT
References: <3010@looking.UUCP> <63@norsat.UUCP> <288@ubbs-nh.MV.COM>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <288@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> noel@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (Noel Del More) writes:
>Brad:
>
>Why don't you shut your mouth, crawl under your rock.humor.funny and play
>with your damned Genie.

>You have no common sense boy!  Shut up for awhile!
>
>I am tired of Brad, I don't want to hear about Brad for at least a week,
>go away.  Give some other poor sole the chance to get his butt flamed
>off!

Thank you for your kind note.  As I have seen this sentiment expressed by
one or two others, perhaps more politely, I feel I should explain what is
an important issue here.

I am tired of a USENET where things are decided by who can shout down the
other side the loudest.  A USENET where you don't do things for fear that
the I-should-run-the-net people will insult and flame you.

I DO things on USENET, I don't just talk about them.  I believe that the
things I do make a better net, and I make efforts to find out whether 
the things I do are supported by the wider net.  I believe they are, and
unlike the rest of you, I have evidence for it.

I cause controversy for one reason.  I do things and I am unwilling to
be cowed by flamage.  I am not Rushdie, but I am no more responsible for
the flamage in this group than Rushdie is responsible for the Ayatollah's
death threat.

The group creation mess is an important issue to me, and I refuse to not
put forward my careful proposal just because some people recently decided
to go after me.   I am going to do all sorts of other new and even more
controversial things in the near future.

Is this the USENET you want?  One where nobody does anything new that might
cause controversy?   Some anarchy, that.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473