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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group,net.politics
Subject: Re: Newsgroup creations and deletions
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 07:01:27 EDT
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> I'm not necessarily suggesting that the moderators aren't in a
> position to make some useful suggestions regarding newsgroup
> creations, deletions, and modifications.  But I do suggest
> that they seem to have assumed an authority that I, frankly, don't
> recall the net offering them!  If there is a desire for the
> moderators to become the net newsgroup authorities, I strongly
> urge them to bring their desire for this authority to the attention
> of the network and allow the benefits and potential problems
> of such actions to be discussed.  It's the unilateral nature of
> what I'm seeing that I find most troublesome.

If only there had been this reaction when a good many governments (not naming
any names) acted in just this way.
-- 
	Peter da Silva (the mad Australian)
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