justin@inmet.inmet.com (11/22/89)
/* Written 3:38 pm Nov 19, 1989 by peter@ficc.uu.net in inmet:news.groups */ [...] If you'd bothered to read the rest of the proposal, I was talking about things like comp.os.vms, comp.org.usenix, comp.sys.amiga, and so on. Where an obvious and appropriate controlling body can be found. `-_-' Peter da Silva <peter@ficc.uu.net> <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>. /* End of text from inmet:news.groups */ I'm not at all sure that the "obvious" controlling body is usually appropriate. One of the most-often-raised concerns I've seen when people have proposed moderated techie groups is, "Is this going to be run by the company?" Let's face facts, Usenet is not the most trusting group of folk in the world. Thus, giving DEC control of the comp.os.vms hierarchy (to take a currently relevant example) isn't likely to sit well with everyone, because there will be a number who fear that the company will run things its own way, with its own political agenda. I'm sort of playing devil's advocate here; I think your idea isn't totally off-base, but I suspect that you'll meet with a lot of resistance if you try to actually put it into effect. And the resistance to putting a group *about* an organization in that organization's hands isn't entirely unfounded; witness the recent UNITEX debacle... -- Justin du Coeur
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (11/23/89)
In article <41800009@inmet> justin@inmet.inmet.com writes: | I'm not at all sure that the "obvious" controlling body is usually | appropriate. One of the most-often-raised concerns I've seen when people | have proposed moderated techie groups is, "Is this going to be run by | the company?" Let's face facts, Usenet is not the most trusting group of | folk in the world. Thus, giving DEC control of the comp.os.vms hierarchy | (to take a currently relevant example) isn't likely to sit well with | everyone, because there will be a number who fear that the company will | run things its own way, with its own political agenda. I never thought of that. I assumed the obvious body was DECUS, so maybe the proposal could be given more detail. I doubt that Peter meant Digital would run it, but I can't speak for him. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon
peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (11/23/89)
In article <1768@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: > I never thought of that. I assumed the obvious body was DECUS, so > maybe the proposal could be given more detail. I doubt that Peter meant > Digital would run it, but I can't speak for him. Yes, that's the sort of thing I was thinking of. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva <peter@ficc.uu.net> <peter@sugar.lonestar.org>. 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame." -- Chuq Von Rospach, chuq@Apple.COM