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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Cabal
Message-ID: <466@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 89 00:25:48 GMT
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Reply-To: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
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In article <14681@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>Five is too few.  Letting everyone with a Amiga in their living room
>[ I have a Wyse 3216 in my den :-) ] tell the net what groups to carry
>just don't seem right.  How about 15 or 20, selected from the larger
>sites.  Perhaps a threshhold such as 10 or more newsfeeds would be
>required for a name to be placed into Brad's hat with some number of
>names drawn at random periodically from the hat.


Ha.  5 is too few, but 15 or 20 is enough?  \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\


I do like the idea of "number of newsfeeds" as a threshhold, but I think
the feed number should be computed w/o trying to come up with a small
number of voting people.

What constitutes a feed?  A full news feed, or an exchange of news with
another site?

My idea was to have (the possibilty of) a large number of sysadmins all
over the net having input.  Most of 'em won't participate, just like
they don't partcipate now.  But they will be able to if they want, and
they won't have to put up with loudmouths at various sites (weemba, where
are you these days? :-) who *aren't* admins but know what's "best" for
the net.


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