Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!eagle!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!emjej From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal - (nf) Message-ID: <6239@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Mar-84 23:36:39 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6239 Posted: Sat Mar 17 23:36:39 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 06:58:13 EST Lines: 16 #R:uok:5700001:uokvax:9300018:000:729 uokvax!emjej Mar 16 09:04:00 1984 Re a net.poll: if you could avoid ballot box stuffing, then it might be nice to have some machine automatically track the ballots and create/delete the groups, to avoid concurrency problems. But then, I wonder whether it isn't a matter of a design error. Rather than having a setup in which large amounts of time are spent discussing/ranting about the existence (proposed or lamented) of a news group, shouldn't there be a more flexible system, in which people post notes (possibly with keywords) with specified (or implicit, based on keywords) distribution--if a topic comes and goes, so be it. What is it about existing software that makes it such a Terribly Important Question whether a news group exists? James Jones