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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,news.misc
Subject: Re: Newsgroup Voting
Message-ID: <4570@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 89 23:04:32 GMT
References: <3682@ficc.uu.net> <467@flatline.UUCP>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <467@flatline.UUCP>, erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
> Wait.  You think that people who don't lift a finger to help support
> the net (via ownership, writing of software, paying of phone bills)
> should be able to tell the people that *do* support the net what to
> do?
> 
> Ok, how about this:  My vote, as site admin, counts for n non-admin
> votes.  1/2 :-).

Let me see if I understand. As a news administrator here at KU, I spend some
time maintaining feeds and supporting the news software, etc, so I am
"supporting" the net, but back before we got any news software, and I just
spent my time answering questions on comp.os.vms (and asking them, too) I
WASN'T supporting the net?  I guess all those pesky people who contribute
their time and effort to posting articles should just go away and quit
bothering all us hard working news admins :-) :-) :-).  That would sure
solve the problem.  ( no flame intended, I am joking, really.)

Let's not lose track of the purpose of usenet and news (oh no, another guy
pretending to know the Purpose of Usenet :-), which is to provide a means
of exchanging ideas between people. I put in the time, and KU pays the bills
because people want the information that is provided by usenet.  My guess
is that the majority of the information comes from non-admins.  That makes
them just as important to the net as I am, and probaby more important.
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