Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: I fear any new group creation/deletion scheme will be worse Keywords: dipwad Message-ID: <11403@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 3 Apr 89 16:31:11 GMT References: <2153.AA2153@panchax> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 32 In article <2153.AA2153@panchax> root@panchax.gryphon.COM ("root", "postmaster" and "usenet") writes: > >In article <445@flatline.UUCP> Eric 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. >> >>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. (Eric has a 3B1 --- big difference there!) But how do you expect to fight against me? I have *BOTH* a 3b1 *AND* an Amiga in *my* bedroom (weeell.. actually they're in the next room which used to be my ex-roomie's (now vnend@phoenix.princeton.edu) bedroom, but that's just picking nits). I *alone* have twice the power that either of you have!!!! Come over to the dark side of the net and feel the POWER! HA HA HA HO HO HO HEE HEE HEE!!! WOOH HAA! um, oh sorry ... -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- <- The problem with mnemonics is they mean different things to different people.