kaufman@yale.ARPA (Qux) (10/23/84)
Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: I think the dozen or so articles screaming about the new mod.* groups demonstrate perfectly why they weren't proposed to net.news.group. I've been reading and maintaining the News here for over a year now, and it is quite clear that net.news.group suffers from paralysis due to its wide variety of viewpoints: for any suggestion, there are enough vocal people who disagree with it to quash it. Things happen only when somebody (like Mark, Chuqui, Gene, ....) decides to make it happen, and deal with consequent attacks. I would like to thank the self-appointed net maintainers for spending the time and effort to keep the Usenet on its feet, despite the Netters' best efforts. I suggest that those of us who feel left out of the decision-making process make positive suggestions, not complain. David Kaufman