Acbosgd.848 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Fri Dec 25 19:24:10 1981 Re: Proposed USENET policy It's unfortunate that we can't all be at USENIX to discuss this, but it's a fact of life and this is the main reason I've been asking for some discussion HERE. I have gotten lots of pressure to let the people at USENIX make the decisions (for the network name, too) and I want to state for the record that while I fully hope to postpone all such decisions until at least USENIX, the people who can't make it to Santa Monica this January have just as much right to be heard as those who can. Conversely, I feel that anyone who hasn't joined USENET yet but plans to show up on person has a lot of nerve trying to mandate the results of the decision. I want to hear both groups, but the real public that counts here is the USERS OF THE NET (e.g. all you folks that are reading this). Since carrying out a discussion on this medium is very reasonable, but carrying out a vote is not, I suggest that we all air our opinions here and that after we talk ourselves out, those who can't make it to USENIX should find somebody who can and have them cast your vote by proxy. (Preferably someone you can talk with in person and hand a piece of paper to with your signature on it.) Mark Horton ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.