Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Scrap the current NG creation procedure, invent a new one
Message-ID: <3649@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 1 Apr 89 06:12:25 GMT
References: <3010@looking.UUCP> <445@flatline.UUCP> <3199@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <4833@inco.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <4833@inco.UUCP>, mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes:
> In article <3199@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:
> >In article <445@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
> >>Anyone wanting a new newsgroup would have to convince a site's usenet
> >>admin (needn't be their *own* siteadmin, just any site admin) to bring
> >>it up on the mailing list.

> This scheme may avoid
> disenfranchising the site admins, but it does so at the cost of disen-
> franchising the other 90+% of the population.

There is no "Franchise" on the net.

All this does is formalise the de-facto situation.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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