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From: noel@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (Noel Del More)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Scrap the current NG creation procedure, invent a new one
Message-ID: <297@ubbs-nh.MV.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 89 22:00:20 GMT
References: <3010@looking.UUCP> <445@flatline.UUCP> <3199@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <4833@inco.UUCP>
Reply-To: noel@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (Noel Del More)
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In article <4833@inco.UUCP> mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes:
>
>News administrators make up less than 10% of the membership of the net.
>(I assume something close to 1 news admin per site. There are around
>11,000 - 12,000 sites. There are, according to the last arbitron stats
>I saw, something like half a million readers.) This scheme may avoid
>disenfranchising the site admins, but it does so at the cost of disen-
>franchising the other 90+% of the population.

What you say is indeed true, however, it is the administrators that
allocate system resources, pay the bills and put up the occassional grief
in order to support usenet and its readers.

This is fact, regardless of the size of the system involved.

Perhaps a two tier approach should be considered, the first tier being
composed of the readers, the second being system administrators who would
then vote collectively upon the recommendations of the readers.

Noel

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