chas@ihuxe.UUCP (Charles Lambert) (01/26/85)
> It seems there are people who have self-appointed themselves to positions of > "Caretaker" and whatever they think is right is going to happen. I ask you, Now, slow up a minute. The net is a free facility (at least, the majority of we users pay nothing for it) which exists only through the VERY hard work of a few volunteers - the caretakers, I guess - like Chuq von Rospach, Gene Spaffors, et al. You can't run it all ways at once, so the guys putting in the sweat have to decide what shape it'll be. You don't like it? Well, I believe some of them will gladly bow to a successor. > Who exactly is LAUREN ? Who elected this person to moderate/censor ANYTHING? Lauren is an engineer who set about an experiment in communications called STARGATE. He's another worker putting in a lot of voluntary time for the sake of an interesting development. He figured that a news net SIMILAR to Usenet could be operated that way, so as an EXPERIMENT he and his colleagues are going to try it out. No-one in a position of sufficient authority has decreed that the Usenet must die (there is no such authority - it's a co-operative), least of all Lauren. Frank Adrian's alarmist article has created that myth. > What galls me is that this idea (like a LOT of software "improvements") is > being done wihtout consulting the user community. You get what you get. Big It's free; you get what you get. Charlie Lambert @ the Death Star, IL.