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- From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes)
- Newsgroups: news.admin,news.admin.policy,news.groups
- Subject: Re: Dave Hayes may be right (was Re: To keep the r.m.s rename...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.211529.19738@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:15:29 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.033547.12992@cubic.com> <By1GH8.B42@unix.amherst.edu>
- Reply-To: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab - Pasadena, CA
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- twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
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- >Followups are directed out of rec.music.synth and rec.music.makers.synth.
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- Agreed.
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- >>"It's a terrible idea to remove newsgroup participants from the name-decision
- >>process . . . You have no guarantee that the administrators understand the
- >>proposed content well enough to place the group properly." -- Tim Pierce
- >That's right, but I think it's also a terrible idea to remove
- >administrators from the decision process, because you have no
- >guarantee that the users understand Usenet hierarchy well enough to
- >vote informedly on the issue.
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- Philosophy time.
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- If a newsgroup name is lost in the namespace, and the users don't make
- a sound, is it broken?
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- Now administrators in a voting process...that's a bias in itself when
- taken with "ignorance of voting procedures is no excuse". Users are
- more ignorant than admins by definition. How do you want to deal with this?
- --
- Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA
- dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov ...usc!elroy!dxh
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- Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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