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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Net.software.projects group idea--Not a good idea
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Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 14:23:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 14:23:22 1985
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Gee, it's SO NICE to learn that Todd has become God of the Network.
"Either I will create it or so and so will!" he says.  That sort
of attitude will KILL THIS NETWORK.  Ya wanna see what's gonna happen
when everybody and his brother decides that 20 or 30 people want to
discuss some random topic and simply declare they're going to 
create the group?  As a practical matter, the only person who really
should be creating groups is the person who maintains the master group lists.

"I want it so I'll create it," he says.  Sounds like a little child
who wants candy.

Note that I'm not saying anything about the pluses or minuses regarding
the groups at this point--I'm just pointing out that the attitude
of "since I want it I'll create it" is infantile and dangerous for
the structure of the entire network.  Not just in this particular
case, but in general as other people decide they can create whatever
groups THEY want based on their own nebulous criteria.

I will be generating a long message discussing the reasons why the
projects group is a bad idea, point by point, shortly.  In the meantime,
I have received something like 30 messages from people saying they think
the group is a bad idea--but many have expressed the fear of saying
this to the network publicly since they're afraid (possibly quite
rightly) that they'll be harrassed.  I encourage these people
to say publicly what they've been saying to me in private mail.

--Lauren--