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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: <1713@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 89 16:40:43 GMT
References: <9115@alice.UUCP> <3603@ficc.uu.net> <1681@ncar.ucar.edu> <3638@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
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In article <3638@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>The current system
>is specific enough so long as people understand it and follow it. 
>The only
>problem is that it hasn't been kept up in news.announce so nobody is quite
>sure what it is.

  This is exactly what I am trying to recify. All I am trying to do is 
formalize what the current practice is. We can discuss what changes should
be made to it later.

>But as drafter of the guidelines, your opinion does matter. Can I at least
>ask for a conservative approach?

  You don't need to. I planned this all along.

>Henry is a citizen of Canada. I am a citizen of Australia. I fail to see what
>the relevence is. The net is not a U.S. dominion.

  You picked out an insignificant part of my entire paragraph, quoted it
out of context, and blew it up far beyond anything I actually said. If you
read the whole paragraph, all it said was that Henry has his own personal
opinions too. He is not without bias, as I'm sure he would admit. This does
NOT disqualify him from maintaining the guidelines, but the point is it
shouldn't disqualify me, either.

>He is, also, a conservative voice on the net. He's unlikely to make any
>drastic mid-course changes. Like opening up newsgroups for deletion wars.

   Neither am I. I don't need the flames and abuse that would surely
result.

>How about maintaining the current rules, without the group deletion rider,
>for a while at least? See how they work if they're properly distributed.

   If you read the rules, you would note that the "deletion rider" was
stated solely as a personal opinion and an opening point for discussion.
It is NOT intended to be "official". At least, not until some consensus
is reached, which has clearly not happened yet. My apologies if my
posting wasn't clear and you misunderstood my intentions as a result.
All I intend to do is get some official guidelines for creation in place,
and all I want them to be at first is an explicit statement of the rules
that are actually being followed in practice now. I do not plan any "drastic
mid-course changes", I can assure you of that.

--Greg