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From: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Cabal
Keywords: newgroup, vote, control
Message-ID: <4861@inco.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 89 15:56:32 GMT
References: <290@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> <291@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> <4873@xyzzy.UUCP> <28368@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas-INCO, McLean, VA
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In article <28368@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>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.

Apply this logic to the "real" world. You are familiar with the word
"plutocracy" I presume?

-- 
Dave Mack