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From: david@bragvax.UUCP (David DiGiacomo)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: list of groups in mod.newslists
Message-ID: <263@bragvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 02:45:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 02:45:53 1984
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In article <1900@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) writes:
>We aren't a clique...  
I have to disagree; members of the elite routinely make decisions
affecting the entire net without consulting those outside the (plaid)
inner circle.  I don't think this is surprising or necessarily wrong.

>We're a group of people who
>are trying to keep this thing running so that the other 99.9999999% of the
>users don't need to think ...
This percentage is way off; too many of us spend far too much time on
news/network maintenance.  I doubt that even 75% can get by without
thinking.

>Feel free to join the group...  
I discovered this summer that it is not really possible to join the
group, or at least the "Usenet Project".  It seems that the only way to
contribute is to compete (rather than cooperate) with the clique:
publish your own news software and patches to the "official" software.
Larry Wall and Bill Sebok seem to fit this category (of course they may
disagree).

>If you think Usenet is screwed up with us running it, let me ask you a
>couple of questions. Please try to answer them (to yourself) honestly:
>
>	If you were running Usenet instead of us, would it be better off? 
Maybe not, but it would be screwed up in a more interesting way.
-- 
Welcome to Usenet -- now go home

David DiGiacomo, BRAG Systems Inc., San Mateo CA  (415) 342-3963
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