From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!sask!derek Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: Beware the coming of NET WARS Article-I.D.: sask.210 Posted: Tue Feb 8 11:32:54 1983 Received: Fri Feb 11 08:34:42 1983 References: ittvax.610 More on my idea: I do not advocate central control exactly, but rather a panel of people to set some reasonable policies. The duties of the panel would be basically decide on the names of newsgroups and if there is a demand. Since they would be elected my a majority, I am sure that most of us would follow their decisions. They would be people that we all knew and respect, such as Mark Horton. I am sure most of us would agree that persons of this class would have better ideas about which newsgroups should exists than first time users. Is there anybody out there who would not respect Mark Horton's opinion? I personally feel that what he has done for the net is a great service to ALL of us. If he said that 'net.trivia' should not exists, I would not dismiss this as a stupid idea. Note that I have used Mark's name without his consent, not to suggest that he be on such a panel, but to show the class of person which would occupy the panel. Derek Andrew U of Saskatchewan