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From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.admin
Subject: Re: Woods as 'newsgroup keeper'
Keywords: I don't know.
Message-ID: <1681@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 89 18:06:18 GMT
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Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
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In article <3603@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>If I was going to suggest someone, I'd probably want to draft Henry Spencer
>or load more work on Gene Spafford.

  Spaf WAS doing the guidelines. He has specifically informed me that he
is NOT going to do it any more, for reasons of his own. I haven't seen
Henry volunteer yet.
  I would like to point out that I would be keeper of the GUIDELINES only,
NOT 'newsgroup keeper'. I wouldn't make any personal judgments about creation
of newsgroups. I want to make the guidelines specific enough that there would
be no arguments. Either a new group proposal conforms to the guidelines or
it doesn't, and it doesn't matter what my personal opinion on that particular
group proposal is.
  As for Henry, as a non-citizen he criticizes the US Government in every
article he posts to the net via his signature. I am not objecting to him 
doing this, I'm just pointing out that he, like me and everyone else, has
his own personal opinions on things. I doubt if you are going to find anyone
who is unbiased and also cares enough about it to take on the job. If you do,
fine. I'll send along what I have so far to someone else if you can find
a qualified volunteer that the net likes better than me.

--Greg