Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site trwrdc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!trwrdc!frith From: frith@trwrdc.UUCP (Lord Frith) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.flame Subject: Re: net.bizarre is just the first... Message-ID: <1089@trwrdc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 18:40:06 EST Article-I.D.: trwrdc.1089 Posted: Fri Nov 1 18:40:06 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 09:40:43 EST References: <1319@pucc-k> Reply-To: frith@trwrdc.UUCP (Lord Frith) Organization: TRW Advanced Technology Facility, Merrifield VA. Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.news.group:4200 net.flame:12603 In article <1319@pucc-k> rsk@pucc-k (Wombat) writes: > > It's about time all of us wake up to the reality that Usenet is not > some bulletin board running on a PC somewhere; it's a damn big network > that costs a lot of money and time to keep running. It's not an anarchy; > maybe it never was. It is controlled in large part by the backbone sites, > who pay for a lot of this, and by the volunteers (like Spaf, the Hortons, Chuq, > Rick Adams, Larry Wall) who spend their time working on software, documents, > and so on for it. These people have bent over backwards to make Usenet more > organized, more cost-effective, and more acessible; if you object to what > they're doing, then maybe *you* should run a backbone site, and then *you* > can run your chunk of the net the way *you* like. That's not a bad idea. Instead of one backbone... let's distribuite the load among several backbones. Can administrative functions be distributed as well? What administrative functions? What is necessary to "keep the net going?" I think net.religion and net.philosophy should be spared the hand of death.