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From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,news.misc
Subject: Re: Newsgroup Voting
Summary: Response
Message-ID: <3686@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 5 Apr 89 09:04:42 GMT
References: <3682@ficc.uu.net> <467@flatline.UUCP>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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In article <467@flatline.UUCP>, erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
> In article <3682@ficc.uu.net> jeffd@ficc.uu.net (Jeff Daiell) writes:
> >diffuse the decision-
> >making, and make it as easy as practical for those who
> >want a particular group created to have it created.
> 
> 
> 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?

Nope -- and your claim that my proposal would bring that about is
misleading.  The current system doesn't force you to carry
any particular group, does it?  No -- and neither would mine.

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