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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Cabal
Message-ID: <28487@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 Apr 89 16:29:03 GMT
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>It's funny how we're busy reinventing the Backbone Cabal.  What was that
>about "if God did not exist, man would find it necessary to create him"?

I don't think it's funny -- the Cabal *worked* for a couple of years. While
the Cabal was working, the net made much progress (the Great Renaming, the
newsgroup voting regimen as just two major examples) in a relatively
peaceful way. It was when the Cabal stopped working -- and it stopped
primarily because it became too easy to join the Cabal and it got too big to
function effectively -- that we started having these problems again.

So I don't see any problem with re-inventing the Cabal, as long as it takes
into consideration what made the last one ultimately fall apart and look for
ways of avoiding it.



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