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From: dfh@scirtp.UUCP (David F. Hinnant)
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Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Clouds
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 23:45:20 EST
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> In article <10819@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU (Erik E. &) writes:
> >Let's get something straight: while the USENET has been discussed at
> >BOF meetings at the various USENIX Conferences, there has NEVER been an
> >action taken on the network with out the usual procedure of building
> >consensus on the network itself.
> 
> Horsepuckey, Eric!  I was around when mod.movies, mod.motss, mod.singles
> and a few other mod.... groups were created (H*ll, I was moderator of
> mod.movies.)  There wasn't any vote taken, no consensus gathered, etc.
> 
> How about net.announce, or net.announce.newusers?  Anyone remember a
> consensus gathered on those?  Sorry, I don't buy it.  We're trying
> to rewrite history to justify our own actions.
> -- 
> 
>                                               Byron Howes
> 					System Manager -- NCECS
> 				   ...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch

Bullwinkle Byron!

If you're going to use an example, use a relevant one.  I don't think
the stork created net.announce overnight.  I remember some discussion,
though not a whole lot.  Why?  Net.announce.newusers?  Who on the the
net would object to a newsgroup that would keep verbage out of other
groups?  Besides, who reads net.announce.newusers on a regular basis?
Net.announce was created (as I remember after some discussion) to clean
up net.general (which didn't work).

And I presume that *poof* mod.movies was created by an unknown net god and
spaketh thus "Hey, who wants to be moderator of this neat group?"

Eric is generally right.  By and large most new groups were created
after a concensus was obtained.  A concensus should be obtained before
those groups are deleted.

-- 
				David Hinnant
				SCI Systems, Inc.
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