Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: mercy rule Message-ID: <2136@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 23 Feb 90 14:38:38 GMT References: <7397@hacgate.scg.hac.com> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 10 I still think that we need a net.cabal which can approve a group by mandate, and in a timely manner. This would not *in any sense* replace or supercede the current process, but would be in addition to it for groups which are widely held acceptable, or which are topical. For topical groups they could also specify a cutoff date, by which the group would be deleted unless approved in the current manner. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me