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From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Scrap the current NG creation procedure, invent a new one
Message-ID: <2958@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 89 22:16:49 GMT
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Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
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In article <3147@alembic.UUCP> csu@alembic.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes:
>Are you willing to honor the outcome of the votes (or whatever),
>even if you personally feel that a group is unnecessary or poorly
>named?

  Who is to stop someone else from sending out a newgroup? The only
thing I would have the power to do is to refuse to carry a group on
my site, and I would have that power whether or not I become the
administrator of the group creation guidelines.
  I do NOT plan to make actual group creation decisions (except for
my own site), even if I could. That is for the administrators of individual
sites to do. The vote procedure is merely a GUIDELINE (there's that word 
again) to assist them in making that decision.

--Greg