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From: webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: EndOfSourcesList+AnnouncementOfNetOmbudsman
Message-ID: <287@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 00:47:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: brandx.287
Posted: Tue Jul  7 00:47:58 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jul-87 03:55:45 EDT
References: <267@brandx.rutgers.edu> <1610@celtics.UUCP> <275@brandx.rutgers.edu> <2778@ncoast.UUCP>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Summary: majority?

In article <2778@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
> By whom, Mr. Webber?  I have proof (email) that the majority of people prefer
> having only moderated sources groups.  The MAJORITY, defined as > 50%, not
> something you can argue around.  If you'd like I'll mail you my collected
> email and some statistics.  (82K mail file, mostly short messages)

My understanding is that proper utilization of mail would require you to
contact all the intervening sites and make sure they don't object and
can handle an 82k posting.  If you can make them available to me
without disrupting the rest of the net, I would, of course, enjoy browsing
them (however, I do not have control over the communication lines at my
current site).

Anyway, I fail to see the relevance of the question of whether or not the
majority of the people on the net wish to see a new group.  In the
past, the only relevant question was: Was there enough support for a
new group to warrant creating it?  I have currently gathered 100+ people
who would have used the new group had it been created.  In the past, that
was plenty.  Before you start talking about procedure, please show me
when it was voted upon that net.sources and mod.sources would be
merged and subsequently split into multiple moderated groups as well
as how you ended up being the moderator of the one that is currently
closest in goals to the old net.sources.  It strikes me that your
interest in proper procedure is rather new found.

> If, as it seems, you are in the minority, then you have no right to screw
> the rest of the net over with this bypass-the-moderator-as-I-please non-
> sense.  

You are beating a dead horse here.  I turned over the net ombudsman
job to weemba@berkeley.edu within 24 hours of its announcement.

---- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber)