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- From: stannenb@emerald.tufts.edu (Saul Tannenbaum)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc,comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Open Response to Richard E Depew
- Followup-To: news.admin.net-abuse.misc,comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Date: 14 Feb 1996 18:35:58 -0500
- Organization: Tufts University
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- References: <824160406.9068@spence-n.demon.co.uk> <slrn4hvvcb.ip2.grendel@unix5.netaxs.com> <4fqugp$j9q@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu> <slrn4i2g1j.p6b.grendel@unix5.netaxs.com> <4ftou2$n73@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu>
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- In article <4ftou2$n73@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu>, Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu) wrote:
- > In article <slrn4i2g1j.p6b.grendel@unix5.netaxs.com>,
- > Michael Handler <grendel@netaxs.com> wrote:
- > >USENET, for the most part, exists on private property. Even if there
- > >were a feasible way of holding votes on issues, there is no way to
- > >bind people to those decisions.
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- > There is no way to bind {sum of leaders, police, judges, etc.} to "democratic"
- > decisions in real life, either. If they were to ignore votes you would have
- > as little recourse as you have on the net when the appropriate group on the
- > net ignores the votes.
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- In real life, your recourse would be revolution and armed insurrection.
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- With Usenet, things are simpler. You can just start another one with
- rules more to your liking.
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- - Saul
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