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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Cabal
Keywords: newgroup, vote, control
Message-ID: <28368@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 89 16:29:16 GMT
References: <290@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> <291@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> <4873@xyzzy.UUCP>
Organization: Life is just a Fantasy novel played for keeps
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>Considering that some site administrators represent thousands, some represent
>hundreds, some represent tens, and some represent a site of one user, How
>do you come up with the conclusion that limiting USENET proceedings to
>site administrators is "in principle sound and fair to all"?

They (1) maintain the news system, and more importantly (2) pay the bills.
The folks with the checkbooks are the people who should have the final say.


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      [This is myself speaking. No company can control my thoughts.]

USENET: N. A self-replicating phage engineered by the phone company to cause
computers to spend large amounts of their owners budget on modem charges.