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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: proposed destruction of net.bizarre
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 16:40:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 16:40:27 1985
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> 
> I personally would support giving Gene that right under the
> guidelines that he is using.  I would rather have a net 
> controlled by concensus of a few, then NO net at all.  
> 
And you have that.  The net is an anarchy.  The people who seize control
of it are those who can yell the loudest and those who can back up what
they are saying.  If you want to make a power play, grab a bunch of modems
and offer to feed news to everyone who wants it.  After you control the
net flow, you will be in the same postion as Spaf, et al.

> Maybe we need to set up a USENET Council, consisting of 'elected' 
> representatives of the users.  Any net user can run/participate 
> electronically.  Annual nominations and elections in 
> net.news.council.elections, with the 13 net users with
> the highest number of votes becoming the dictators of the net
> for one year.  They could discuss proposed changes in 
> net.news.council.  You wouldn't need the finacial support
> to go to USENIX, you wouldn't even have to be 36 years old,
> you would only need to prove net participation for over one year.
> 
This is likely go over even worse than the USENET corporation idea
that was bounced around a couple of years back.  I think the most
organization you are likely to get is sort of like OPEC, where the
big time sites get together on their own and form a coalition.

I don't disagree with most of what SPAF is trying to do, but he seems
to be specializing in doing it in away that is designed to piss-off
the maximum number of users.

-Ron