justin@inmet (03/31/89)
/* Written 3:24 pm Mar 28, 1989 by peter@ficc.UUCP in inmet:news.admin */ Way to go, Brad. This sure sounds like a great way to reduce the bureaucracy on the net... by creating a commitee. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. /* End of text from inmet:news.admin */ You miss the point, Peter. We *already* are run by committee -- a committee made up of all the people who yell and scream on news.groups/admin/misc. This committee, as with all such, is inefficient in proportion to its size. Brad's proposal would replace the many people who hold little power with a small group that holds a lot. Dangerous, but, given some reasonable checks on that power, probably a helluva lot more effective that the current system... -- Justin du Coeur "Of course, after reading Chuq's USENET Community Trust article, it does make me just the *tiniest* bit queasy..."
mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham) (04/03/89)
In article <128400005@inmet> justin@inmet writes: >}/* Written 3:24 pm Mar 28, 1989 by peter@ficc.UUCP in inmet:news.admin */ >}Way to go, Brad. This sure sounds like a great way to reduce the bureaucracy >}on the net... by creating a commitee. >} >}Peter da Silva [...] > >You miss the point, Peter. We *already* are run by committee -- a committee >made up of all the people who yell and scream on news.groups/admin/misc. This >committee, as with all such, is inefficient in proportion to its size. Like the U.S. Government? (Imagine that! :->) Like a participatory democracy? An absolute monarchy is far more efficient, of course (and if you need a change of government, all you do is behead the monarch :-}). >Brad's proposal would replace the many people who hold little power with a small >group that holds a lot. Dangerous, but, given some reasonable checks on >that power, probably a helluva lot more effective that the current system... Effective at what? Perhaps inefficiency and ineffectiveness is desirable? Why are efficiency and effectiveness the *primary* criteria? Just playing the "daemon's advocate" :-) Cheers, --Mark ======================================= Mark Gresham ARTSNET Atlanta, GA, USA E-mail: ...gatech!artsnet!mgresham or: artsnet!mgresham@gatech.edu =======================================