cda@hobbes.ide.com (04/05/89)
Democracy is a noisy, cumbersome process. Anarchy is noisier and more cumbersome than democracy. Facism is quiet and efficient. Personally, I prefer anarchy and treasure Usenet as one of the few working examples of an anarchistic system. I have administered the netnews at two sites now, one of them the UC Berkeley computer center, and I'm more than willing to put up with any amount of noise in order to give even those dreaded undergraduate students a chance to have some control over one small aspect of their lives. I believe that people in this country are trained to be irresponsible, individualistic, and passive, because they make worse citizens and better consumers that way. It's not easy for any of us to learn to be responsible participants in a cooperative system. Usenet gives people a chance to learn these skills. If we can't learn how to cooperate responsibly in an area as limited and non-essential as Usenet, I for one don't see much hope for the future of our species. I would hate to see this anarchistic experiment terminated because some net bigwigs don't want undergraduate students to have as much to say about newsgroup creation as they do. I don't see anything wrong with the current newsgroup creation procedure. I like it. I don't have to pay any attention to it at all. I don't want to have to decide things for the newsreaders at this site, or take opinion polls of the newsreaders at this site, just because I administer the netnews. And I certainly don't want ANY five people deciding ANYTHING for the whole net. Charlotte Allen
jdb@dkstar.UUCP (Jon Bennett ) (04/10/89)
In article <33@ide.UUCP>, cda@hobbes.ide.com writes: > > I don't see anything wrong with the current newsgroup creation procedure. > I like it. I don't have to pay any attention to it at all. I don't want > to have to decide things for the newsreaders at this site, or take > opinion polls of the newsreaders at this site, just because I administer > the netnews. And I certainly don't want ANY five people deciding ANYTHING > for the whole net. > > Charlotte Allen I agree with this. The current new group creation technique seems to work fine. What started this major idea to alter it? I can see nothing wrong with it, and no reason to change it. -- No disclamer here. Jon "There, that oughta do it" Bennett This is my computer. jdb@dkstar.UUCP {decvax hplabs inhp4 linus rutgers seismo}!gatech!rebel!dkstar!jdb