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From: root@panchax.gryphon.COM ("root", "postmaster" and "usenet")
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: I fear any new group creation/deletion scheme will be worse
Keywords: dipwad
Message-ID: <2153.AA2153@panchax>
Date: 1 Apr 89 05:01:35 GMT
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Organization: Palos Verdes Killifish Ranch R&D dept.
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In article <445@flatline.UUCP> Eric writes:
>In article <3010@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>>Replace it with what?  The next posting says.  If you have a real
>>replacement, let's hear yours, too.
>
>Not having read the next posting...
>
>A cabal.  Not a backbone cabal, but a siteadmin cabal.  A mailing list
>limited to "root", "postmaster" and "usenet" at each site on the Usenet.
>
>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.
>
>Site admins would "vote" on newgroup creation, with the vote count/names
>posted to news.admin (or wherever).  Summaries of mailing list traffic
>could be regularly posted to news.whatever.

This is great Eric. You can sit there in your basement with your 3B2,
and I can site here in my bedroom with my Amiga, and together we
can take this network over.



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decwrl!gryphon!panchax!richard                    richard@panchax.gryphon.COM