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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Newsgroup creations and deletions
Message-ID: <3091@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 01:16:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 01:16:28 1985
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In article <1438@islenet.UUCP> richard@islenet.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes:
>Good grief, Mark!  I was wondering why you didn't remove mod.general
>when it popped up unannounced!  You were one of the ones behind it.
>
>Yes, Mark and friends have done many fine things for the rest of us.
>
>But, it looks like some of these guys are starting to over-step their
>authority a bit in their impatience to bend the net to fit their image
>of the way things should be.
>
>Private meetings among small groups of net wizards is just fine.  Just
>as long as they don't make any real decisions for the rest of us without
>bothering to consult us.

Well, I've never considered a Usenix BOF to be a private meeting. Sheesh.

Okay, Richard, I have an offer for you. I have a writing career I'm trying
to get off the ground. Mark has a brand new bouncing baby that he'd like to
see more than once a week. Gene is planning on getting married one of these
days, if he survives long enough to finish his thesis [ hmmm. come to think
of it, I plan on getting married, soon, too...]. Rick has been working his
tail off getting uucp to work right for the 4.3 release. You don't like the
way we've been trying to coordinate the network? Fine. We quit.

Just give us the word -- Spaf will send all of the mod.announce.newuser
stuff to you, Mark will transfer moderatorship of mod.announce to your
site, Rick will ship you all of the stuff so you can finish up 2.10.3, I'll
pass along my mailing list of list. We can give you the job of head
coordinator for the moderators, forward all of the network related mail for
you to answer, and let you coordinate the mapping project with Usenix and
all of the involved sites. That should only take you an hour or so a week,
leaving you a LOT of time to make sure you NEVER make a mistake in any
decision you have to make as head guru on the network. Remember, you won't
get paid for any of this, and any time you stick your head above water,
someone will throw a rotten vegetable at it. You don't like what we're
trying to do? Then do it better. We'd LOVE to find a better way, and
someone more competent than the rest of us to show us how. GLOS knows,
we've tried everything we could and bent over backward to be careful not to
muck things up, but obviously we aren't good enough. You seem to have the
answers -- don't yell at us, simply show us.

Just let me know, and I'll pass you all my stuff and happily unsubscribe to
net.news.all...

chuq
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