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From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Scrap the current NG creation procedure, invent a new one
Summary: Burden of proof
Message-ID: <3714@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 6 Apr 89 14:35:03 GMT
References: <3010@looking.UUCP> <445@flatline.UUCP> <3199@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <4859@inco.UUCP>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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In article <4859@inco.UUCP>, mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes:
> 
> There is no such thing as an "inalienable right" any more than there is
> such a thing as a "self-evident truth". 

Remind me never to vote for Dave for public office!  Life might get really 
scary.


But I agree with his criticisms of the various proposals for
oligarchy.  And, while I would like to see group creation be
easier, I also believe that it is those who wish to make it
harder who carry the burden of proof.  What harms are being
done by not making it more difficult -- harms, that is, that
any given admin cannot rectify for her/his site by declining
to carry a given group?


Para un Tejas Libre,


Jeff Daiell


-- 
  If a hungry man has water, and a thirsty man has bread,
  Then if they trade, be not dismayed, they both come out ahead.

                                   -- Don Paarlberg