root@panchax.gryphon.COM ("root", "postmaster" and "usenet") (04/01/89)
In article <445@flatline.UUCP> Eric writes: >In article <3010@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: >>Replace it with what? The next posting says. If you have a real >>replacement, let's hear yours, too. > >Not having read the next posting... > >A cabal. Not a backbone cabal, but a siteadmin cabal. A mailing list >limited to "root", "postmaster" and "usenet" at each site on the Usenet. > >Anyone wanting a new newsgroup would have to convince a site's usenet >admin (needn't be their *own* siteadmin, just any site admin) to bring >it up on the mailing list. > >Site admins would "vote" on newgroup creation, with the vote count/names >posted to news.admin (or wherever). Summaries of mailing list traffic >could be regularly posted to news.whatever. This is great Eric. You can sit there in your basement with your 3B2, and I can site here in my bedroom with my Amiga, and together we can take this network over. -- The bonds of truth are not made to measure decwrl!gryphon!panchax!richard richard@panchax.gryphon.COM
david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) (04/03/89)
In article <2153.AA2153@panchax> root@panchax.gryphon.COM ("root", "postmaster" and "usenet") writes: > >In article <445@flatline.UUCP> Eric writes: >>Anyone wanting a new newsgroup would have to convince a site's usenet >>admin (needn't be their *own* siteadmin, just any site admin) to bring >>it up on the mailing list. >> >>Site admins would "vote" on newgroup creation, with the vote count/names >>posted to news.admin (or wherever). Summaries of mailing list traffic >>could be regularly posted to news.whatever. > >This is great Eric. You can sit there in your basement with your 3B2, >and I can site here in my bedroom with my Amiga, and together we >can take this network over. (Eric has a 3B1 --- big difference there!) But how do you expect to fight against me? I have *BOTH* a 3b1 *AND* an Amiga in *my* bedroom (weeell.. actually they're in the next room which used to be my ex-roomie's (now vnend@phoenix.princeton.edu) bedroom, but that's just picking nits). I *alone* have twice the power that either of you have!!!! Come over to the dark side of the net and feel the POWER! HA HA HA HO HO HO HEE HEE HEE!!! WOOH HAA! um, oh sorry ... -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <david@ms.uky.edu> <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- <- The problem with mnemonics is they mean different things to different people.
erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) (04/04/89)
In article <2153.AA2153@panchax> root@panchax.gryphon.COM ("root", "postmaster" and "usenet") writes: >This is great Eric. You can sit there in your basement with your 3B2, >and I can site here in my bedroom with my Amiga, and together we >can take this network over. It's a 3b1, actually. And yes, that's the idea: Those who pay the bills or who answer to those who pay the bills get to make the rules. If you don't like the rules we make, buy yourself a unix box, and you can help make the rules. (This is not a devious plot to increase AT&T's sales of Unix products.) -- J. Eric Townsend | Skate UNIX or die, segmented memory suckers! uunet!sugar!flatline!erict bellcore!texbell!/ 511 Parker #2 |EastEnders Mailing List: Inet: cosc5fa@george.uh.edu Houston,Tx,77007 |eastender@flatline.UUCP
erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) (04/04/89)
In article <11403@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes: >(Eric has a 3B1 --- big difference there!) Yep. Mine is in a stylin case, making it the perfect movie prop. :-P >But how do you expect to fight against me? I have *BOTH* a 3b1 *AND* >an Amiga in *my* bedroom (weeell.. actually they're in the next room which >used to be my ex-roomie's (now vnend@phoenix.princeton.edu) bedroom, but >that's just picking nits). I *alone* have twice the power that either >of you have!!!! Come over to the dark side of the net and feel the POWER! Actually, this is a good point (of sorts). There'd have to be a mechanism that prevented somebody like Greg Hackney from voting once from each system in his subdomain. (Greg is the SWB High Lord Muckity Muck Usenet Person. :-) Or, Reid at decwrl could decide to arbitrarily hate a newsgroup I suggest, and vote against it with all of DEC, er Digital's, computers (while releasing rmgroups from each machine as well). Oh well. -- J. Eric Townsend | "Type 'make'. If you get errors, stop and fix them." uunet!sugar!flatline!erict | -- Eric S. Raymond, in TMNN documentation. bellcore!texbell!/ 511 Parker #2 |EastEnders Mailing List: Inet: cosc5fa@george.uh.edu Houston,Tx,77007 |eastender@flatline.UUCP
richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (04/05/89)
In article <461@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes: > >If you don't like the rules we make, Fortunately Eric, you havn't made any rules for me to like or dislike. >buy yourself a unix box, and you can help make the rules. Thats odd. Every unix system I've worked with DIDN'T COME WITH a little form to fill out to register me to be able to make the rules. Was I gypped or what ? Of course neither did the Amiga at home who is at this very minute polling for news and mail. Without unix! Must be some sort of hallucination or something. -- ``How do you like my new cordless phone ?'' ``What ?'' richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV
erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) (04/06/89)
In article <14241@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >In article <461@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes: >>buy yourself a unix box, and you can help make the rules. >Thats odd. Every unix system I've worked with DIDN'T COME WITH >a little form to fill out to register me to be able to make the >rules. Was I gypped or what ? No, you just have to call Customer Support and pretend that you're a VAR for a while, and they finally admit that there is such a form, and that they will mail it to you in a couple of years (if they feel like it). >Of course neither did the Amiga at home who is at this very minute >polling for news and mail. Without unix! Must be some sort of >hallucination or something. Touche. The "unix box" above should read "netnews capable machine". -- J. Eric Townsend | "Type 'make'. If you get errors, stop and fix them." uunet!sugar!flatline!erict | -- Eric S. Raymond, in TMNN documentation. bellcore!texbell!/ 511 Parker #2 |EastEnders Mailing List: Inet: cosc5fa@george.uh.edu Houston,Tx,77007 |eastender@flatline.UUCP