jgd@rsiatl.UUCP (John G. DeArmond) (11/20/90)
craig@com50.c2s.mn.org (Craig Wilson) writes: >Moderated newsgroups and the newgroup creation "rights" consolidated in the >hands of the moderator of news.announce.newgroups; to list the most obvious. Actually, you prove the opposite argument. The process of forming new groups is truely anarchic. We have a nominal moderator of newsgroups and announce but no one is or can be bound to their proclamations. Indeed, since the recent spat regarding the wizards newsgroups, many admins simply ignore them. I have since day one honored any newgroup or rmgroup that appeared reasonable and authentic. "Reasonable" is typically judged to be in conformance with the net guidelines but not always. In other words, I do what I want with this site. My downstream sites are similiarly free to do as they please. If I don't like what my main feed site does, I can freely bind to another feed that DOES do what I like. Anarchy at work! John -- John De Armond, WD4OQC | "Purveyors of Performance Products Rapid Deployment System, Inc. | to the Trade " (tm) Marietta, Ga | {emory,uunet}!rsiatl!jgd | "Vote early, Vote often"