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From: bobh@pedsgd.UUCP (Bob Halloran)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group,net.flame
Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 08:20:12 EDT
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In article <1817@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
>> Equally peculiar is Spafford's claim that net.internat was started as
>> a wildcat newsgroup.  As postings on net.internat itself have made clear,
>> the group was mandated at an EUUG meeting.  
>
>  Since when does EUUG get to make worldwide decisions? If that's the case,
>let them create eur.internat. Also, consensus reached at a meeting does
>not fit in ANYWHERE in the criteria for newsgroup formation. At least READ
>the goddam rules before you start this kind of argument.

If consensus reached at a continental conference of system users, which
continent happened to NOT be North America, is insufficient to justify
creation of a technical newsgroup for issues of software development
for non-North-American environments, then how the deletable-expletive
can a consensus of a dozen-odd sysops justify the removal of such a
group?  Or their decision to re-arrange groups (fa.* to mod.*); I seem
to recall a general reaction of 'Huh?!' when it was announced this
summer, and when someone asked, the response was 'Oh, we decided on
that at the BOF meeting at Usenix'.  If the backbone cabal can make
worldwide decisions to boink traffic, I see no reason why an official
user's organization cannot make a decision to generate some.  As to
restricting it to Europe, there is also the issue of Australasian
distribution, and for my part, I want to know what the non-NorthAm
users are looking for.

						Bob Halloran
						Sr MTS, Perkin-Elmer DSG
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