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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Cabal
Summary: Naw, Brad's proposal is NOT EVEN CLOSE to the one I agree with.
Keywords: newgroup, vote, control
Message-ID: <3230@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 89 18:03:09 GMT
References: <3010@looking.UUCP> <63@norsat.UUCP> <288@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> <3031@looking.UUCP> <290@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> <291@ubbs-nh.MV.COM>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL
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In article <291@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> noel@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (Noel Del More) writes:
>Now that I have said my piece concerning......
>
>I'll go on record as being in favor of Brad Templeton's suggestion
>concerning the site administrators voting on the creation/deletion of
>newsgroups.
>
>While the details certainly need to be hacked out, it is in principle
>sound and fair to all.
>
>I also strongly agree with Karl, that the ONLY requirement be that the
>individual be a site administrator.

Be careful -- Brad proposed a 5-member BOARD of people, not necessarially
administrators, with prerequisite experience, to decide group policy for the
entire network!

I backed a proposal for a new "cabal" of administrators, made up of all
administrators who care to be a part of it, with the only requirement being
that you are an admin.  The proposal I agree with would also retain the
current news.groups as a discussion board for anyone to post to (thus,
hopefully, an admin would pick up the ball from users, and thus ordinary
users would have a way to submit proposals without "pestering" their admin).

In the case of the proposal I favor, any administrator may "vote".  In
Brad's proposal, only 5 people get to "vote".

--
Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
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