jet@flatline.UUCP (j. eric townsend) (11/10/89)
In article <11263@cbnews.ATT.COM> wbt@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker,00440,cb,1D211,6148604019) writes: >1) Allow only system administrators to vote (i.e., only votes sent > from "root" or somesuc are accepted), and adjust the margins > accordingly I got roasted at the bit bucket for suggesting the formation of a moderated news.groups that could only be posted to by systems administrators. I still believe that Usenet is an anarchy of *site administrators* who are either responsible for the bills, or responsible to the person(s) that pay the bills; and that "j. user" who only has to read/post and not worry about the details should *not* have the same amount of decision making power as the person who is finally responsible for the system. (How many sites let any user either create a new newsgroup or delete an old one at will?) If J. User has an account on my machine, and wants newsgroup X, and I don't think we should carry it, that's just too damn bad. (This probably won't happen, as I don't mind carrying any newsgroup anyone wants to have.) Likewise, if the system administrators (Backbone Cabal, where are you when we need you?!?! :-), think that a group belongs somewhere other than the vote takes it, we should put the group where we think it belongs. If J. User thinks this is unfair, they should try owning and/or running a Usenet site and having to deal with pressures from above (money/the boss(es)) and from the users. Maybe eunet is doing things the right way. Everybody coughs an equal amount and gets a somewhat-equal say. (That's my impression of how things work there, at least...) (Before certain libertarians at FICC whine about how this is patently unfair; they should consider how unfair it was to the other FICC employess that lost [houston,tx].all net access because one boneheaded user wouldn't take advice to calm down just a little.) -- "lizards at lightning speed, surpise me all the time does no one respect space rules?" -- the Sugarcubes J. Eric Townsend uunet!sugar!flatline!jet com6@uhnix1.uh.edu EastEnders Mailing list: eastender@flatline.UUCP