Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Cabal
Keywords: newgroup, vote, control
Message-ID: <14316@gryphon.COM>
Date: 6 Apr 89 16:57:17 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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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.

The people who own AND use their systems, AND who serve as a major
news hub, I'd agree, but the rest of the administrators are (no
disrespect intended) just caretakers.

This sounds to me a little like letting the guy who drives the
train determine where the track gets laid.

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